it is not that often that i see a game that makes me feel dread.
getting to the last few seconds of the video while Badlands unpredictably burps like crazy is so tense knowing you lose all your progress when you die. like, the way this game remixes both I Wanna Be the Guy and a YouTube video in mod format is pretty ingenious... diegetic burp interactivity + basically perfect giant boss fight + a mixture of a cutscene with skill-based play. where else do you see such a story-focused game (Badlands never stops speaking or chugging bottles of coke zero) be so seamlessly merged with high-stakes gameplay??
there's this hypnotic quality to this game. you memorize the whole video in the first hour of attempts and then you turn into a zombie trying to get good burp RNG and then you burst out laughing when Badlands does that wiggly burp. i lost so many runs to that...,
getting to the last few seconds of the video while Badlands unpredictably burps like crazy is so tense knowing you lose all your progress when you die. like, the way this game remixes both I Wanna Be the Guy and a YouTube video in mod format is pretty ingenious... diegetic burp interactivity + basically perfect giant boss fight + a mixture of a cutscene with skill-based play. where else do you see such a story-focused game (Badlands never stops speaking or chugging bottles of coke zero) be so seamlessly merged with high-stakes gameplay??
there's this hypnotic quality to this game. you memorize the whole video in the first hour of attempts and then you turn into a zombie trying to get good burp RNG and then you burst out laughing when Badlands does that wiggly burp. i lost so many runs to that...,