I expected this to be a super fun queer-as-hell audiovisual treat, and it is that with all the lovely dialogue I hoped for, but what I didn't expect was getting the greatest piece of antifascist art that gaming has produced. Get in the Car, Loser is absurdly direct and makes no attempt to hide its messaging. It knows that when the shit hits the fan like it has in the real world, the fight against evil has to be proactive. When it's violent and carries the threat of violence on an even more massive scale, we've gone past the point where rational debate maintaining ideologically pure pacifism are enough. It is a fight, and while GitCL makes a point not to encourage pointless bloodlust, it recognizes that we can't ignore what's been put in front of us. The fight must be fought.

It's so gay. It's so pretty. The tunes are incredible. The battle system is really novel (though I will admit, not explained very well by the game). I just want to hear these characters' banter go on and on and on. This game is made for the internet-raised who got front-row seats to the surge in reactionary garbage in the 2010s that got us to where we are today. It's for the queers intimately familiar with our enemy, many of us barely escaping getting sucked into their world. I've never seen such a grand production made for MY people in the spirit of OUR time. GOD I love this. I cried at the wave of triumph as I defeated the Machine Devil and I'm still recovering from the emotional weight of that success.

Played through Proton on Linux. I'm going to start putting this message on things unless/until an option is added to Backloggd.

I WON'T FALTER IN THE FACE OF EVIL!

Reviewed on Oct 10, 2021


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