its the perfect youtuber/streamer game. says silly things to get a reaction, looks pretty, plays well. i can tell there's real vision to a lot of elements to this game that make me hope the devs go on to do more. i don't want to be reductive, but there's really nothing else to this game on its own. it's a game with a silly name with not much to it beyond that, it just got put together by some real talent. what's interesting to me is how this game exists in the context of games created by the letsplay/streaming ecosystem.

there were lines in this game that felt like they were trying to get youtubers to make thumbnails out of, lines that could be episode titles, perfect episode breaks. i don't think the devs were trying to engineer a game perfectly for that reason, but it feels like it was built on the legacy of that and now these traits are just a part of the genre this game is in.

growing up through the era of letsplay and streaming becoming massive parts of culture, it's fascinating seeing what media forms around that. games like this are comforting in that i guess. inoffensive little things that are trying to make you laugh with just the title. and there's a more insidious way of thinking about how the algorithm is so easily hijacked by games with a funny title and good thumbnail bait, but at least this one has heart. also the soundtrack rips.

Reviewed on Jul 01, 2022


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