I'm actually kind of in two minds when it comes to this game. On one hand it's an absolute stylistic achievement; the way everything manages to appear fluid and expressive while also looking like the entire game was passed through the Game Boy Camera, the soundtrack which is at times catchy and other times genuinely kinda haunting, some interesting character designs, one specific moment of pretty effective horror, and a few decent gags all make this hard not to at least recommend giving a try, but like, on the other hand, it's surprising to me how difficult it was for me to stay interested during the four or so hours it took to play.
The game's appeal, for me at least, starts and ends at its aesthetic, and those aforementioned scattered moments of horror and decent humor. None of the five episodes here have especially interesting setups or satisfying payoffs, and I kind of feel like the game at times kind of suffers from not taking itself too seriously? Like man the episode where you start experiencing increasingly strange events while wandering through a desert could have been kind of unnerving and may have managed to draw me in if it wasn't also like "heh... and get THIS... your travel companion is FREAKIN' MC RIDE!!!!" Like I feel as if Monkey is the most effective and interesting chapter simply by virtue of the fact that it leans into the disturbing quality of some of the game's visuals and sound design without throwing in too many wacky, zany irreverent moments!!! That may just be me wanting something out of the game that it's not aiming for, though; for me, it's just difficult to get invested in the deliberately confusing time travel occult narrative the game is trying to convey when the writing doesn't seem interested in making that story compelling or even telling it without falling back on a bunch of internet culture references.
Give it a try if it looks interesting to you, though. I genuinely do feel like this could end up clicking really hard for a lot of people who vibe more with its sense of humor.
The game's appeal, for me at least, starts and ends at its aesthetic, and those aforementioned scattered moments of horror and decent humor. None of the five episodes here have especially interesting setups or satisfying payoffs, and I kind of feel like the game at times kind of suffers from not taking itself too seriously? Like man the episode where you start experiencing increasingly strange events while wandering through a desert could have been kind of unnerving and may have managed to draw me in if it wasn't also like "heh... and get THIS... your travel companion is FREAKIN' MC RIDE!!!!" Like I feel as if Monkey is the most effective and interesting chapter simply by virtue of the fact that it leans into the disturbing quality of some of the game's visuals and sound design without throwing in too many wacky, zany irreverent moments!!! That may just be me wanting something out of the game that it's not aiming for, though; for me, it's just difficult to get invested in the deliberately confusing time travel occult narrative the game is trying to convey when the writing doesn't seem interested in making that story compelling or even telling it without falling back on a bunch of internet culture references.
Give it a try if it looks interesting to you, though. I genuinely do feel like this could end up clicking really hard for a lot of people who vibe more with its sense of humor.