Was very surprised by how much I enjoyed this, a darkly comic spin on cinematic platformers. Some of the jokes don't land in the sort of try-hard way that games can get sometimes, but more often than not they're at least silly fun. Replaying sections to get the secret ending for finding enough collectibles was absolutely worth it for the resulting goof.

Of more recent games of this type, this definitely works the best for me. I was also surprised at how this helped me figure out what I don't particularly like about Playdead's output, namely that while they have good setpieces and decent enough puzzle solving, those worlds break apart for me as they progress, and I start to feel like I'm going through a barrage of haunted house attractions instead of a world, particularly in the case of Inside. Not that the premise of Ministry of Broadcast is bulletproof, but it certainly better accommodates those cohesion issues [and I think still just has a more consistently realized world anyway].

Reviewed on Feb 07, 2021


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