This review contains spoilers
a post-modern review for a post-modern game:
who would have thought the dude who made the Universal Controller Fix (look it up) for Super Smash Brothers Melee players could pull something like this out of his back pocket? a welcome surprise at the time of release (i'm sure), but more of a long overdue chore to play four years after the fact.
it's hard to pitch this game without "spoiling" that there is a "turn" that happens in it, which is maybe a fault of the Moe Trash genre as a whole. it's like if Michael Haneke's "Funny Games" was written by someone who was more knowledgeable about the genre the story was about but somehow more annoying. this game does some very cool things though, which brings it up to 3 stars for me. however, being post-modern alone isn't enough to shock me anymore, at least not since Metal Gear Solid 2 (sorry).
narratives surrounding "mental health" and "sensitive topics" tend to get overblown a lot in games, and this is no exception. maybe i'm just desensitized to queer people's writing where they talk about wanting to kill themselves in graphic (and, frankly, more creative) ways a lot, but the "turn" in this game is less of a shock and more of a welcome release from the tedium that proceeds it. the pacing of this game could be faster and it would be better for it.
there is no "best girl," there never was. bye.
who would have thought the dude who made the Universal Controller Fix (look it up) for Super Smash Brothers Melee players could pull something like this out of his back pocket? a welcome surprise at the time of release (i'm sure), but more of a long overdue chore to play four years after the fact.
it's hard to pitch this game without "spoiling" that there is a "turn" that happens in it, which is maybe a fault of the Moe Trash genre as a whole. it's like if Michael Haneke's "Funny Games" was written by someone who was more knowledgeable about the genre the story was about but somehow more annoying. this game does some very cool things though, which brings it up to 3 stars for me. however, being post-modern alone isn't enough to shock me anymore, at least not since Metal Gear Solid 2 (sorry).
narratives surrounding "mental health" and "sensitive topics" tend to get overblown a lot in games, and this is no exception. maybe i'm just desensitized to queer people's writing where they talk about wanting to kill themselves in graphic (and, frankly, more creative) ways a lot, but the "turn" in this game is less of a shock and more of a welcome release from the tedium that proceeds it. the pacing of this game could be faster and it would be better for it.
there is no "best girl," there never was. bye.