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Oikospiel 2017
Log Status
Completed
Playing
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Rating
Time Played
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Days in Journal
2 days
Last played
September 7, 2023
First played
September 6, 2023
Platforms Played
September 2023
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When I dropped out of Oikospiel the first time, I was only like 40 minutes from the ending. What a pain. Anyway:
- In concept, I love the aggressively unorthodox presentation. I am a firm believer that sometimes, games need to get weird.
- In practice, this game is a blaring headache. Its visually aggravating and aurally obnoxious and its just a very negative kind of overstimulation - I am either shaken into anguish or dazed to sleep like a fucking cobra.
- Generally, good politics (from what I can tell).
- Specifically I cannot understand maybe 70% of what is happening in this game. I suspect that Im just not thinking hard enough about it (Im unintelligent) and that there is most likely significance to some of the… tableaus? on display in the game but it rides the line between “eccentric” and “gibberish” too wildly to read very clearly.
- Above all else tho: it is a viciously inaccessible game. There are segments in this game I truthfully cannot tell if they are functioning correctly or if they are suffering from some kind of bug. People complain about game cameras all the time but this is actually the first game Ive played with a demonstrably bad camera. I know the dev knows this about their game too, cuz its clear youre supposed to jump to the Table of Contents at basically any point where you feel like you dont know how to / physically cannot complete the level.
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When I dropped out of Oikospiel the first time, I was only like 40 minutes from the ending. What a pain. Anyway:
- In concept, I love the aggressively unorthodox presentation. I am a firm believer that sometimes, games need to get weird.
- In practice, this game is a blaring headache. Its visually aggravating and aurally obnoxious and its just a very negative kind of overstimulation - I am either shaken into anguish or dazed to sleep like a fucking cobra.
- Generally, good politics (from what I can tell).
- Specifically I cannot understand maybe 70% of what is happening in this game. I suspect that Im just not thinking hard enough about it (Im unintelligent) and that there is most likely significance to some of the… tableaus? on display in the game but it rides the line between “eccentric” and “gibberish” too wildly to read very clearly.
- Above all else tho: it is a viciously inaccessible game. There are segments in this game I truthfully cannot tell if they are functioning correctly or if they are suffering from some kind of bug. People complain about game cameras all the time but this is actually the first game Ive played with a demonstrably bad camera. I know the dev knows this about their game too, cuz its clear youre supposed to jump to the Table of Contents at basically any point where you feel like you dont know how to / physically cannot complete the level.
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Finished
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LOG
I was unable to beat this game the first time I played it due to digital aneurysm. Its time to attempt to power through it on a restart.
I was unable to beat this game the first time I played it due to digital aneurysm. Its time to attempt to power through it on a restart.
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