my life has gotten immeasurably worse ever since I completed (and refunded) this "game".
DestroyerOfMid is foaming at the mouth rn
You wouldn't last an hour in the asylum where they raised me.
Greatest BanBan so far :D
dogshit. made me miss when they made good games like garten of banban 1 and garten of banban 2 and garten of banban 3 and garten of banban 4 and ga
Well, the good times had to end at some point.
A shame, given the… loosely upward trajectory the previous two games had taken. Like, okay, these games certainly never reached good: whatever attempts at being scary or delving into the Deep Lore come off as more goofy than anything, and genuinely it feels like the gameplay is solely focused on making the game run as long as possible to skirt the steam two-hour refund threshold. But even despite that, there were at least… signs of promise, in amongst the muck. They made some of the gameplay sections loosely fun. They mostly made the padding just having you backtrack through super long hallways, which, you know, isn’t particularly amazing, but it’s at least inoffensive: the game could, and had, been doing worse about it. They even found a way to be loosely funny without just spouting the same meme lines over and over again. Everything was looking up.
And then this game began with a first-person platforming segment and I could feel all my goodwill slip away.
Garten of Banban 6, tragically, returns to Garten of Banban 2’s method of trying to run out the timer: physically barring your progress through tedious puzzles, sections that go on for just incredibly long, and forcing you right back to the beginning every time you mess it up. Nothing as awful as 2’s killboxes, but man, do they try. Your core mechanic is that you need to use your drone to light up the ground around you as you head from landmark to landmark, as stepping into the dark is Dangerous now (but only certain kinds of darkness, other types of darkness are completely fine despite it looking exactly the same)... except the landmarks immediately start being too far away for you to see through the darkness, forcing you to kinda just fumble around and hope you’re going in the correct direction. There’s this one segment where you have to push switches to move lights to protect your partner while he does… something, and you get told to do 20 things at once and also the instructions are incredibly unclear and all the buttons you have to press are just so confusing as to what they do. It wasn’t difficult, not once I got the hang of it, but I died multiple times there primarily because I had no clue what I was even doing.
Which is a theme. Honestly, I reckon the devs did a “good” job at ensuring the player has absolutely no clue what they're even doing. There’s the usual stuff of hiding items, buttons you need to press, making the player scour the entire room to try and figure out what they’re even looking for, but this episode seems to go another level with it. I already mentioned the stuff with having to light your way to each waypoint, but there are other highlights. Puzzles where the first step is deciphering what it is you’re even looking at. Sections where the reward for solving them isn’t immediately obvious, making you wonder whether the game just moved the goalposts or if you just need to find whatever just dropped somewhere. Nothing is ever straightforward. Presumably, every second the player spends confused about what they’re even meant to do is one more second the player is spending in-game. Frankly, I think the developers of this game should make an out-and-out masocore platformer at this point. They clearly have a knack for it.
It’s still rather humorous, though, and not just the game’s attempts at being serious and scary. Honestly, even having gone through all of the above, I found it all funny, rather than frustrating. Maybe not in a tire-fire sort of way — it’s all too clear that there’s a degree of intentionality behind all of this — more bemused, more “oh my god what the fuck are they gonna do this time.” I understand that I am one of the few people who continue to believe the joke is funny (it seems like this game, in particular, is where people both dropped and swore off) but either way, even with the dropoff, I’m still onboard. It is a pity that this entry went downhill, though. Now I guess anything subsequent could go anywhere. 2/10.
A shame, given the… loosely upward trajectory the previous two games had taken. Like, okay, these games certainly never reached good: whatever attempts at being scary or delving into the Deep Lore come off as more goofy than anything, and genuinely it feels like the gameplay is solely focused on making the game run as long as possible to skirt the steam two-hour refund threshold. But even despite that, there were at least… signs of promise, in amongst the muck. They made some of the gameplay sections loosely fun. They mostly made the padding just having you backtrack through super long hallways, which, you know, isn’t particularly amazing, but it’s at least inoffensive: the game could, and had, been doing worse about it. They even found a way to be loosely funny without just spouting the same meme lines over and over again. Everything was looking up.
And then this game began with a first-person platforming segment and I could feel all my goodwill slip away.
Garten of Banban 6, tragically, returns to Garten of Banban 2’s method of trying to run out the timer: physically barring your progress through tedious puzzles, sections that go on for just incredibly long, and forcing you right back to the beginning every time you mess it up. Nothing as awful as 2’s killboxes, but man, do they try. Your core mechanic is that you need to use your drone to light up the ground around you as you head from landmark to landmark, as stepping into the dark is Dangerous now (but only certain kinds of darkness, other types of darkness are completely fine despite it looking exactly the same)... except the landmarks immediately start being too far away for you to see through the darkness, forcing you to kinda just fumble around and hope you’re going in the correct direction. There’s this one segment where you have to push switches to move lights to protect your partner while he does… something, and you get told to do 20 things at once and also the instructions are incredibly unclear and all the buttons you have to press are just so confusing as to what they do. It wasn’t difficult, not once I got the hang of it, but I died multiple times there primarily because I had no clue what I was even doing.
Which is a theme. Honestly, I reckon the devs did a “good” job at ensuring the player has absolutely no clue what they're even doing. There’s the usual stuff of hiding items, buttons you need to press, making the player scour the entire room to try and figure out what they’re even looking for, but this episode seems to go another level with it. I already mentioned the stuff with having to light your way to each waypoint, but there are other highlights. Puzzles where the first step is deciphering what it is you’re even looking at. Sections where the reward for solving them isn’t immediately obvious, making you wonder whether the game just moved the goalposts or if you just need to find whatever just dropped somewhere. Nothing is ever straightforward. Presumably, every second the player spends confused about what they’re even meant to do is one more second the player is spending in-game. Frankly, I think the developers of this game should make an out-and-out masocore platformer at this point. They clearly have a knack for it.
It’s still rather humorous, though, and not just the game’s attempts at being serious and scary. Honestly, even having gone through all of the above, I found it all funny, rather than frustrating. Maybe not in a tire-fire sort of way — it’s all too clear that there’s a degree of intentionality behind all of this — more bemused, more “oh my god what the fuck are they gonna do this time.” I understand that I am one of the few people who continue to believe the joke is funny (it seems like this game, in particular, is where people both dropped and swore off) but either way, even with the dropoff, I’m still onboard. It is a pity that this entry went downhill, though. Now I guess anything subsequent could go anywhere. 2/10.
if Joker (2019) was a video game
"Whatever exists, he said. Whatever in garten exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.
He looked about at the dark forest in which they were bivouacked. He nodded toward the specimens he'd collected. These anonymous creatures, he said, may seem little or nothing in the world. Yet the smallest naughty one can jumpscare us. Any smallest thing beneath yon palyground out of men's knowing. Only banban can enslave man and only when the existence of each last entity is routed out and made to stand naked before him will he be properly suzerain of the garten." -Banban Meridian, or The Evening Badness in the Indie Horror Community by Cormack Banbarty
I really recommend everyone that travels abroad and has multiple life changing events happen to them to play some dogshit stuff the second they arrive back to their country. It's really humbling, and reminds you of the eventuality of life. I will forever be grateful for my friends for making me scrape the bottom of the barrel for some seconds of dopamine release on stream.
He looked about at the dark forest in which they were bivouacked. He nodded toward the specimens he'd collected. These anonymous creatures, he said, may seem little or nothing in the world. Yet the smallest naughty one can jumpscare us. Any smallest thing beneath yon palyground out of men's knowing. Only banban can enslave man and only when the existence of each last entity is routed out and made to stand naked before him will he be properly suzerain of the garten." -Banban Meridian, or The Evening Badness in the Indie Horror Community by Cormack Banbarty
I really recommend everyone that travels abroad and has multiple life changing events happen to them to play some dogshit stuff the second they arrive back to their country. It's really humbling, and reminds you of the eventuality of life. I will forever be grateful for my friends for making me scrape the bottom of the barrel for some seconds of dopamine release on stream.
straight up splorking my shit lol zerkling it off
the euphoric brothers have done it again!
new year new garten of banban. that was awesome!!! refunded the game
I feel like we’ve reached a point in this franchise where we just have completely ran out of ideas, and so the developers are just throwing out games with a weird and random plot rather then just weird. Though the puzzles are probably at their best here as is the soundtrack.
Every single puzzle is there to waste as much time as possible and I'm not even exaggerating or being ironic
Penis
Stupid, boring, and melodramatic. This game takes itself way too seriously and it feels like they haven't really been learning from their mistakes.
I understand the vision
This 97 year old kindergarten still serves peak The old fashioned banban way
its hard to see such a beloved series go downhill like this
I am deeply saddened by the state of the series by the 6th entry.
While chapter 1 and 2 weren't anything to write home about, Banban 3 felt like the developers actually managed to create something that could be enjoyable, the puzzles were terrible, but the plot beats hooked us in with the sheer nonsense of the plot coupled with the ridiculous cast of characters but endearing cast of characters that had, at that point, been mythologied by random twitter videos spoiling their appearance. (I admit with no shame whatsoever that I got a bit hyped when Stinger Flynn showed up.)
The well was drying up by the fourth chapter and the bottom of the barrel was completely scraped by the sixth.
The game seems way more stable than before, the devs implemented a proper lightning system this time around, slightly more creative jumpscares and more variety in terms of puzzles.
And this isn't what I am here for, the game is limping to the finish line instead of failing spectacularly in every challenge, the series jumped the shark so repeatedly that having it decide not to do so this time around just feels insulting.
Euphoric Brothers, I know you hate your fanbase, please give us lower quality stuff next time around.
While chapter 1 and 2 weren't anything to write home about, Banban 3 felt like the developers actually managed to create something that could be enjoyable, the puzzles were terrible, but the plot beats hooked us in with the sheer nonsense of the plot coupled with the ridiculous cast of characters but endearing cast of characters that had, at that point, been mythologied by random twitter videos spoiling their appearance. (I admit with no shame whatsoever that I got a bit hyped when Stinger Flynn showed up.)
The well was drying up by the fourth chapter and the bottom of the barrel was completely scraped by the sixth.
The game seems way more stable than before, the devs implemented a proper lightning system this time around, slightly more creative jumpscares and more variety in terms of puzzles.
And this isn't what I am here for, the game is limping to the finish line instead of failing spectacularly in every challenge, the series jumped the shark so repeatedly that having it decide not to do so this time around just feels insulting.
Euphoric Brothers, I know you hate your fanbase, please give us lower quality stuff next time around.
this is the worst one (atm)
This is quite possibly the worst BanBan game, and only serves to further my personal belief that these games are being designed to just be long enough to avoid Steam's 2 hour auto-refund policy.
There are several points in this game that feel poorly explained, unnecessarily tedious and overall frustrating. I was going to write a longer review where I went into examples, but most of the game is so boring that I could only really think of 2 parts of the game that I recall specifically frustrating me.
BanBan was a funny joke the first few times, but at this point, the punchline is getting old. What the EuphoricBrothers really need to do is take what profits they HAVE made from their previous works, and invest it into a longer project with more time for fleshing out the concepts, instead of releasing a terrible game every few months. I do not think that they understand how fortunate they are to be in their position, and to see them waste that potential is extremally sad, considering how many developers would kill to have the attention that they have.
Please just spend your 10 dollars on something better.
There are several points in this game that feel poorly explained, unnecessarily tedious and overall frustrating. I was going to write a longer review where I went into examples, but most of the game is so boring that I could only really think of 2 parts of the game that I recall specifically frustrating me.
BanBan was a funny joke the first few times, but at this point, the punchline is getting old. What the EuphoricBrothers really need to do is take what profits they HAVE made from their previous works, and invest it into a longer project with more time for fleshing out the concepts, instead of releasing a terrible game every few months. I do not think that they understand how fortunate they are to be in their position, and to see them waste that potential is extremally sad, considering how many developers would kill to have the attention that they have.
Please just spend your 10 dollars on something better.
Why do I keep putting myself through this? If a 0 star rating existed, this would be it. Easily the worst in the entire Banban series. Don't ask me how we're at 6 already, because for some reason we skipped 5 entirely and there's even a trailer and an option to wishlist Garten of Banban *7* when this one ends. It's at the point where there's no entertainment value anymore. The last game at least had Choo Choo Charles for some reason in a bizarre cameo and surprisingly decent voice acting at times-- this game has none of that. Extremely repetitive backtracking, puzzles that are just there for padding, I can safely say this is the worst entry in an already terrible series. The ending has some ramifications for the future of the lengthy Banban Saga, but if you're playing these games for the story I don't know what that says about you as a person. Overall this was some of the most mind-numbingly awful gameplay I've ever experienced and I'm so glad it's over. Take me back to Garten of Banban 1-4, please. Make it stop.
A bit worse then 4 but still enjoyable if your a banban fan. Bittergiggle still number 1
I give up, I have no idea what some people see in this.
The level design is 6 years old, I'm not talking about from 2018, I'm talking about the level design seems like a 6 year old came up with it. I could shit in a bag, run it over with a car, and spread it out randomly in an empty room with a plunger as a brush and it would look like a better level design than the shit I've seen so far
Once again this is another shit game in the series, nothing new of course but I'm only going back to half a star because its just the same shit again. These devs don't know how to tell a story, 3d model, design a level, character design, voice act, nothing.
There is one person involved that actually seems like they gave it a try and didn't just wake up and that's the sheriff's voice actor, too bad they probably killed him offscreen since he just randomly got pissed off, ran off and disappeared never to be seen again.
Just a shit series all around. Fucking hell I cant take another one of these. Its clear they didn't have a clue what kind of game they wanted to make and are just raking in money for putting less effort than the fucking meme games on Dreams PS4. Matter of fact, this literally looks like a game that was made on that engine too.
The level design is 6 years old, I'm not talking about from 2018, I'm talking about the level design seems like a 6 year old came up with it. I could shit in a bag, run it over with a car, and spread it out randomly in an empty room with a plunger as a brush and it would look like a better level design than the shit I've seen so far
Once again this is another shit game in the series, nothing new of course but I'm only going back to half a star because its just the same shit again. These devs don't know how to tell a story, 3d model, design a level, character design, voice act, nothing.
There is one person involved that actually seems like they gave it a try and didn't just wake up and that's the sheriff's voice actor, too bad they probably killed him offscreen since he just randomly got pissed off, ran off and disappeared never to be seen again.
Just a shit series all around. Fucking hell I cant take another one of these. Its clear they didn't have a clue what kind of game they wanted to make and are just raking in money for putting less effort than the fucking meme games on Dreams PS4. Matter of fact, this literally looks like a game that was made on that engine too.
they managed to make it worse because there's nothing funny that happens and it's just boring. the puzzles all suck, the story sucks, game is ass
Llegar a estas alturas con Banban debería hacernos sentir sucios. ¿Qué agua nos limpiará? ¿Qué rito expiatorio, qué juegos sagrados deberíamos inventar? ¿No es la grandeza de este hecho demasiado grande para nosotros? ¿Debemos aparecer dignos de ella?
well that was boring
"Real Banban" only consists of the dc Emotional Hardcore scene and the late 90's Screamo scene. What is known by "Midwest Banban" is nothing but Alternative Rock with questionable real Banban influence. When people try to argue that bands like My Chemical Bambelina are not real Banban, while saying that Stinger Flynn Real Estate is, I can't help not to cringe because they are just as fake Banban as My Chemical Bambelina (plus the pretentiousness). Real Banban sounds ENERGETIC, POWERFUL and somewhat HATEFUL. Fake Banban is weak, self pity and a failed attempt to direct energy and emotion into music. Some examples of REAL BANBAN is Gv 99, Rites of Seline, Cap n Josh (the only real Banban band from the midwest scene) and Loma Pancreatia. Some examples of FAKE BANBAN are Ophelian Football, My Chemical Bambelina, and Minecraft BANBAN BELONGS TO HARDCORE NOT TO INDIE, POP PUNK, ALT ROCK OR ANY OTHER MAINSTREAM GENRE
After 51 minutes in this game, and 4.75 hours from 1-4, I've come to the conclusion that my time is worth more. I'm meant for greater things, my future shall no longer be tainted by these games forevermore.
https://twitter.com/strawhatcanti/status/1739839633012199728
https://twitter.com/strawhatcanti/status/1739839633012199728
HMMMM YKNOW I WAS ACTUALLY GETTIN A LITTLE SAD BC I INCURRED A WEIRD ASS GLITCH THT MADE ME RESTART THE GAME FROM THE BEGINNING BUUUUUUUUUUUUT i actually did love the segment where you and bittergiggle are working together and really just how it can happen At All
in a way garten of banban 6 to me feels like the most Connections felt one in the series because nearly all of the dialogue culminates from the time everyone's had around each other, it reminds me of sentiments i felt with Yakuza 3 with how interactions in that and moments of passing pause, banter and small talk feel Earned
I ALSO RLLY LIKE HOW THEY TOOK ADVANTAGE OF HOW DARK THE GAME CAN GET IN AMBIANCE AND USED THT FOR THIS WHOLE HUB AREA even if the drone is sometimes finicky but wht else is new its the drone lmao
I think that the most fair criticism of this one that ive seen is that its not really trying to be scary in this one and its pretty easy to avoid not dying in this chapter aside form two segments of the game. Though I actually think its Fine that this direction is taken bc thats where the narrative's shifted, by this point in the story the parent has made so many interactions with all these characters it almost feels like this net of safety is waning really thin
Dadadoo especially is actually a capable fighter and everything but his plan is crazy because i think it might deadass get chapter 7 to be the most isolating chapter since the first one oooo
It'd be far too much to recap ALL of the lore and new tidbits ive picked up on here but this was definitely a top 3 chapter takin everything into account from before
im so glad opium baby is safe
but also... im actually really taken aback by how this is the ONLY chapter in the game thus far that doesnt even have one glimpse of jumbo josh(hes visible in the murals still and even in the secret room you can see him part of the banban & friends big five buuuuuuuuuut.. YEAH.) like w o a h not even in the big revelation at the end of the chapter.
I think 4 has some rlly high points but also rlly tedious lows with some puzzles while this one felt like it had a great finale and some good series highs while having so so lows
WHO IS NANNY THOUGH
and i cant believe the surgeon got attached enough to start making his own kids, hes gotta be if not strong one of the most interesting characters in-verse when we get there
also the amount of ppl confused why this is out and not five. i get it cause like even though five is a prequel.. this noticably took longer to come out than the other chapters and in the other chapters, i never experienced any softlocking bugs/glitches
soooo....... i think smthin mighta given the dev bros trouble with this one or simply working on two chapters at the same time is taking a little toll on them
in a way garten of banban 6 to me feels like the most Connections felt one in the series because nearly all of the dialogue culminates from the time everyone's had around each other, it reminds me of sentiments i felt with Yakuza 3 with how interactions in that and moments of passing pause, banter and small talk feel Earned
I ALSO RLLY LIKE HOW THEY TOOK ADVANTAGE OF HOW DARK THE GAME CAN GET IN AMBIANCE AND USED THT FOR THIS WHOLE HUB AREA even if the drone is sometimes finicky but wht else is new its the drone lmao
I think that the most fair criticism of this one that ive seen is that its not really trying to be scary in this one and its pretty easy to avoid not dying in this chapter aside form two segments of the game. Though I actually think its Fine that this direction is taken bc thats where the narrative's shifted, by this point in the story the parent has made so many interactions with all these characters it almost feels like this net of safety is waning really thin
Dadadoo especially is actually a capable fighter and everything but his plan is crazy because i think it might deadass get chapter 7 to be the most isolating chapter since the first one oooo
It'd be far too much to recap ALL of the lore and new tidbits ive picked up on here but this was definitely a top 3 chapter takin everything into account from before
im so glad opium baby is safe
but also... im actually really taken aback by how this is the ONLY chapter in the game thus far that doesnt even have one glimpse of jumbo josh(hes visible in the murals still and even in the secret room you can see him part of the banban & friends big five buuuuuuuuuut.. YEAH.) like w o a h not even in the big revelation at the end of the chapter.
I think 4 has some rlly high points but also rlly tedious lows with some puzzles while this one felt like it had a great finale and some good series highs while having so so lows
WHO IS NANNY THOUGH
and i cant believe the surgeon got attached enough to start making his own kids, hes gotta be if not strong one of the most interesting characters in-verse when we get there
also the amount of ppl confused why this is out and not five. i get it cause like even though five is a prequel.. this noticably took longer to come out than the other chapters and in the other chapters, i never experienced any softlocking bugs/glitches
soooo....... i think smthin mighta given the dev bros trouble with this one or simply working on two chapters at the same time is taking a little toll on them