yippie yo! you can't touch this!
poinie's poin is cute, goofy, nanaon-sha-esque platforming goodness with a vague undertone of hostility and unease without overselling it. the english track has this campy weirdness to it; there's a cartman-impression duck guy in it, half the cast sounds like they have headcolds, and there's so much spoken grammatically false and broken english that's played straight with so much false cadence that the entire experience comes off like a candy-coated feverdream.
i'd like to give it more props because the atmosphere, aesthetic and general gameplay concepts are so cool and so good and so clearly what far lesser western indie "aesthetic" titles have tried and failed to capture in the last decade on and on again... but that said this game has a few moments of jank and some general poor design (mostly the respawn points in some areas feeling rather cruel for a kids' game) that i've got to drop it a hair. still a bite sized, fun time! can you dig it!?!
poinie's poin is cute, goofy, nanaon-sha-esque platforming goodness with a vague undertone of hostility and unease without overselling it. the english track has this campy weirdness to it; there's a cartman-impression duck guy in it, half the cast sounds like they have headcolds, and there's so much spoken grammatically false and broken english that's played straight with so much false cadence that the entire experience comes off like a candy-coated feverdream.
i'd like to give it more props because the atmosphere, aesthetic and general gameplay concepts are so cool and so good and so clearly what far lesser western indie "aesthetic" titles have tried and failed to capture in the last decade on and on again... but that said this game has a few moments of jank and some general poor design (mostly the respawn points in some areas feeling rather cruel for a kids' game) that i've got to drop it a hair. still a bite sized, fun time! can you dig it!?!