There's something undeniably bitter about the whole experience of Bubsy 3D: Bubsy Visits the James Turrell Retrospective. I think a version of me from a couple years ago would have found this at least a little interesting, but at this point all I see is just irony on top of irony on top of irony. The issue with internet irony and post-irony is that it's a distancer, it's a deliberate refusal to be genuine even for a second.

But even when you pull it apart it's just, like, high school nihilism. Ok dude, art sucks, life sucks, we're all gonna die, whatever man. Ironically, in the traditional sense, this game spends most of its time shitting on what it perceives to be "stuck-up postmodern art that thinks it's smarter than it is", while also being a piece of postmodern art that has pretty much nothing interesting or emotionally resonant to say. If you want to see postmodern artists take the piss out of themselves just watch The Comedy (2012) instead.

Reviewed on Oct 12, 2023


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7 months ago

When I first played this I had pretty much the exact same thoughts but something about it still resonated with me a little, at the very least I wholeheartedly agree that Arcane Kids has very little self-awareness at least when making this and Sonic Dreams Collection.