Too much to say about this one, really, which usually means that it will end up becoming one of my favorite things ever a couple of years from now.
All the style it has - and if there is something that nobody can deny is that this game has style - serves its themes perfectly.
Like a slow cinema police procedural, the amount of thematical twists this manages to pull off is astonishing, particularly when you consider the "gameplay" and how it lulls you a certain flow, giving you agency as quickly as it takes it away from you. You can row, but there's only a single path that river can take.
Masahi Ooka is a genius from writing something so well structured as Placebo.
Now to dust off the trusty DSi with my R4 card to finally understand what the fuck was going on 13 years ago when I triedplaying Flower, Sun and Rain and turned if off after 1 hour.
All the style it has - and if there is something that nobody can deny is that this game has style - serves its themes perfectly.
Like a slow cinema police procedural, the amount of thematical twists this manages to pull off is astonishing, particularly when you consider the "gameplay" and how it lulls you a certain flow, giving you agency as quickly as it takes it away from you. You can row, but there's only a single path that river can take.
Masahi Ooka is a genius from writing something so well structured as Placebo.
Now to dust off the trusty DSi with my R4 card to finally understand what the fuck was going on 13 years ago when I triedplaying Flower, Sun and Rain and turned if off after 1 hour.