Cookies
Where the ordinary and the hard-to-believe meet in a gutter, the population of "The Darb" simply call it "home". Gang violence, poverty, and substance abuse leave Darby rife with drifters, murderers, and cash maniacs whose sole purpose in life is finding the next high or die trying. The town of the same name exists as a swollen, caustic juxtaposition of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and reruns of Twin Peaks gestating in the sweltering heat of Southern Florida. The optimistically named Orange Grove Houses, a dilapidated flop house of an apartment building where the only thing more parasitic than the rats and roaches are the tenants, squats obscenely at the end of a long abandoned housing development. A lone drug pusher hawks his wares to sun-deprived addicts when he's not falling prey to his own stock. After an especially odd trip, he finds himself tangled in a devil's weave of crime and hallucinations in halls that even God has given up on. Inspired by black comedy Trash Humpers and VHS slashers like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Cookies is an obscene PSX-coated blend of Satanic cults, meth-dealing clowns and online torture chambers, all under the same backwards-ass roof.
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I really liked the atmosphere and presentation, it feels really grimey and cramped, the first time I was exploring was great, felt all surreal with these off, robotic NPC's in a really grounded and creepy atmosphere. Every room is really different and has tons going on and it means the building feels kind of alive despite how static it is functionally. I didn't really like anything else though, I wish the writing was a bit less cartoonish? A lot of the characters are cliches like Killer Clowns that I don't think fit. It does this so it can call itself a black comedy but I never really found it funny. Along with this it's really buggy, I had to restart the game 7 times to get an ending because the game kept getting stuck. Found myself getting kind of sick of the game as I played it and its mystique went away so it's probably a good thing I didn't get every ending honestly.
had fun with it for those first couple playthroughs though so might be worth trying, idk, there's no other reviews for the game rn so i feel bad leaving a kind of negative one lmao