What kind of dick eats their pet shrimp on the day that they are gonna kill themselves?
Idk it's fine. I gave it a positive review on Steam initially but I just wish it either gave us more people's lives to look at, gave us more of the character that we are playing as, or made it less depressing by at least letting us choose to better our lives instead of just ending it.
After all it's a god damn video game, and if it's not fun then it should at the very least give us a narrative that's able to be interacted with
Idk it's fine. I gave it a positive review on Steam initially but I just wish it either gave us more people's lives to look at, gave us more of the character that we are playing as, or made it less depressing by at least letting us choose to better our lives instead of just ending it.
After all it's a god damn video game, and if it's not fun then it should at the very least give us a narrative that's able to be interacted with
This is not good. It's bordering on offensively bad. It's a short, simple, direct story about unaliving yourself. And sure, okay, that could be neat. It would be fun to get a game dev and artist's perspective on that very serious topic.
Instead, this is just... kinda stupid. It feels like some edgy dude wanted to represent a subject while neither knowing anything about the subject or having any ounce of creativity or artistry. It represents itself as this oddity, this weirdo interpretation of a dark subject. But in reality, it's just lots of disconnected thoughts that are both unexplained and irrelevant.
Maybe you could say that this is a really cynical take on this subject matter. But if so, it's so cynical it comes off as snide. And maybe you could say this is just abstract art, surrealism. If so, what do any of the parts of the whole mean? What message is it trying to speak?
In reality, this is nothing. It's a vapid drivel by someone either too pretentious or too deluded to understand what they, themselves, were trying to do or say. Even if this game weren't addressing some serious subject matter, it's barely competent enough to tell you the daily weather.
Instead, this is just... kinda stupid. It feels like some edgy dude wanted to represent a subject while neither knowing anything about the subject or having any ounce of creativity or artistry. It represents itself as this oddity, this weirdo interpretation of a dark subject. But in reality, it's just lots of disconnected thoughts that are both unexplained and irrelevant.
Maybe you could say that this is a really cynical take on this subject matter. But if so, it's so cynical it comes off as snide. And maybe you could say this is just abstract art, surrealism. If so, what do any of the parts of the whole mean? What message is it trying to speak?
In reality, this is nothing. It's a vapid drivel by someone either too pretentious or too deluded to understand what they, themselves, were trying to do or say. Even if this game weren't addressing some serious subject matter, it's barely competent enough to tell you the daily weather.
kind of real lame and like tactless, bigger issue than how fucking cringey this is w how it’s trying to be shocking is that it’s not at all shocking. it’s just a very big long shrug and basically seems like if someone made the pepe silvia joke into a Serious Artistic Statement. idk my ex-friend made fanart for this game and it was hanging up on my wall for like four years even though I didn’t know what this game was and I haven’t talked to her in like two years lmao
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Too short to say much of anything, and Im not sure of actually straight up depicting a suicide was a very good idea, it feels more gratuitous than anything else. Its well known that such issues in media need to be considered with care, but given the vibe Im guessing the only thought that went into it was "lmao this will be all deep and shocking dude". Idk, Ive seen worse I guess
ENG: The previous acts of a man to suicide. Curious artistic section, oppressive atmosphere and, what gives life to the game, its story presented in a very peculiar way. With touches of terror but never becoming it. Strange mundanity.
ESP: Los actos previos de un hombre al suicidio. Curioso apartado artístico, atmósfera opresiva y, lo que le da vida al juego, su historia presentada a través de una forma muy peculiar. Con toques de terror pero nunca llegando a serlo. Extraña mundanidad.
ESP: Los actos previos de un hombre al suicidio. Curioso apartado artístico, atmósfera opresiva y, lo que le da vida al juego, su historia presentada a través de una forma muy peculiar. Con toques de terror pero nunca llegando a serlo. Extraña mundanidad.
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If the National Endowment of the Arts (RIP) still existed in a meaningful manner, this would have been the perfect game to be given money for, right down to the controversy of depicting suicide.
Or maybe its detractors would pick apart some other element as a greater ill. I don't know, all the art showcases around here just have 5,000 iterations of "human on horse looking into natural world" or "animal in natural world" for the newer generations.
Or maybe its detractors would pick apart some other element as a greater ill. I don't know, all the art showcases around here just have 5,000 iterations of "human on horse looking into natural world" or "animal in natural world" for the newer generations.
Seems like there was an issue when I ran the game. I wasn't able to interact with a key item (not the keys, though) to achieve the game's ending, so I was just wandering around trying to find out what I needed to do. While the game was unnerving in the same way the game I played earlier today, September 1999, I can't really recommend the game in the way I experienced it.
A real rough game that could have been much better, and could have told it's message and story much, much better. This game almost feels like a weird A24 movie, or a Harmony Korine film. It's weird, it makes no sense, and almost things just happen, to just happen, with no real impact on the game or story.
And while that would have been fine, an odd take on a very real thing, I like A24, I love Harmony Korine, and despite it feeling like those things, it didn't work for me. Maybe give it a shot, seems to just not be for me, and might work much better for others.
Overall: 4/10
And while that would have been fine, an odd take on a very real thing, I like A24, I love Harmony Korine, and despite it feeling like those things, it didn't work for me. Maybe give it a shot, seems to just not be for me, and might work much better for others.
Overall: 4/10