The UN has never fully answered for the warcrimes it commits against nations that refuse USA occupation
If the original Umurangi Generation is a subtle, if garbled, hiss against impending climate disaster and the condemnation of disenfranchised youth for their dispair, Macro shouts it in your face and then (literally!) calls you mean names if you still don't get it. In socialist/political art criticism, we call this amplified approach to communicative expression "based".
this dlc is so angry its so angry im filled with so much rage 10/10 we need more angry pieces of art
Macro shows where it all began. It's a prequel from the main game that starts just before the first level and slowly climbs up into what made them take pics in the first place which is something I really love.
With the additions to our camera system, the new quality of life changes to movement speed and control, and the injection of more knowledge into our understanding of the shitty future world we inhabit in-game, Umurangi Generation: Macro is a necessary addition to the base campaign.
GOTY 2020 junto con el juego base, mi indie favorito de lejos
The first three stages are very detailed and fun to play.
The last one is also fun but a bit cornballs. A little too on the nose and when the NPCs start walking around the jankiness of it all kind of takes away from the overall experience.
The additional gidgets and gadgets are great.
The last one is also fun but a bit cornballs. A little too on the nose and when the NPCs start walking around the jankiness of it all kind of takes away from the overall experience.
The additional gidgets and gadgets are great.
What if the main game but better movement at the cost of even more obtuse photo bounties and even less subtlety. This was, I hate to say, kind of corny. Still interesting at least, but corny. My review of the main game here: https://www.backloggd.com/u/Hylianhero777/review/153302/
punch in the belly, shock in the brain. it hurts knowing the truth about the world and the state but it is also necessary be conscious. the power of the pictures is present and more important than ever. i guess i've never seen such an angry and critic game as this - if umurangi generation was an alert, macro shows that do something is not "an option", is a necessity.
Macro provides a structural epilogue to both the narrative and the mechanical progression of Umurangi Generation, and it is extremely satisfying in both senses. It may be one of the best DLCs ever made. One of the most deserving of the extra time it asks players to give it because what it does with that time is delightful and surprising. This is my massive security state mech-sized recommendation.
this would probably be my favorite game if i wasn't absolutely terrible at finding the bounties and there was a little bit more content. you literally get to go around taking pictures of an eva cage that's so cool.
This review contains spoilers
They gave the cops a gatdam eva unit!!!
ACAB
A word problem compared to the base game's deft explanations of concepts and outcomes.
Excellent dlc to an excellent game. Worth checking out.
An excellent addition to an excellent game. A great way to artistically vent all that anger.
Eclipses an already incredible game. Calling it DLC is unfair to other DLC.
I don’t normally log DLC, let alone rate and review it, but fuck, this expansion slaps. Macro is seething with righteous, justified anger, the type of which you flat out never see in games, to the point where it’s willing to straight up punch you in the face with it. The chills I received from learning the true nature of one its levels was my favorite gaming moment of 2020, and it's an experience that shouldn’t be missed.
Umurangi Generation is BACK, and this time, it's meaner, nastier, and it's coming for YOU.
Umurangi Generation was an incredibly accomplished and compelling piece that captured the pre-apocalyptic feeling that much of my generation feel looking outside our windows and through our screens, one that was cutting yet broad in its applicability.
Macro, by contrast, is sharper and cuts deeper. Throughout this [REDACTED] set of levels, Macro offers an incisive look at the commodification and weaponization of outsider art, the rot at the heart of online posting and gaming culture, and of the mentality, conscious or otherwise, that art is by its nature praxis and that we can change the world by Posting.
The tasks you are given feel particularly pointed, encouraging you to present a specific vision of the world through your shots that is reflective of a narrative that an authority wishes to convey, rather than the full reality of the space. HANGAR is a particular triumph, turning you into a propagandist snapping puff pieces for the regime while your friends, once vibing and dancing through these spaces with you, wait outside, dejected and unmoving.
No matter how rebellious and violent and angry it is, the more your art resonates, the more the status quo will take it from you, offering wider and wider audiences in exchange for the edges being slowly sanded off your work until all you're doing is reproducing the monoculture, until there's nothing about it that cuts.
Macro never lets its brazen cynicism turn into outright nihilism however, as the final level boils over with such righteous fury at the state of the world that it thoroughly rejects falling into the pit of nihilism the game sometimes feels like it's dancing on the edge of.
Fuck the cops. Black lives matter. Free Palestine. But saying that isn't enough. You won't change the world by tweeting that. I'm not going to change anything by writing Backloggd reviews, and I'm kidding myself if I think I am. We gotta get out there. We gotta do something.
Umurangi Generation was an incredibly accomplished and compelling piece that captured the pre-apocalyptic feeling that much of my generation feel looking outside our windows and through our screens, one that was cutting yet broad in its applicability.
Macro, by contrast, is sharper and cuts deeper. Throughout this [REDACTED] set of levels, Macro offers an incisive look at the commodification and weaponization of outsider art, the rot at the heart of online posting and gaming culture, and of the mentality, conscious or otherwise, that art is by its nature praxis and that we can change the world by Posting.
The tasks you are given feel particularly pointed, encouraging you to present a specific vision of the world through your shots that is reflective of a narrative that an authority wishes to convey, rather than the full reality of the space. HANGAR is a particular triumph, turning you into a propagandist snapping puff pieces for the regime while your friends, once vibing and dancing through these spaces with you, wait outside, dejected and unmoving.
No matter how rebellious and violent and angry it is, the more your art resonates, the more the status quo will take it from you, offering wider and wider audiences in exchange for the edges being slowly sanded off your work until all you're doing is reproducing the monoculture, until there's nothing about it that cuts.
Macro never lets its brazen cynicism turn into outright nihilism however, as the final level boils over with such righteous fury at the state of the world that it thoroughly rejects falling into the pit of nihilism the game sometimes feels like it's dancing on the edge of.
Fuck the cops. Black lives matter. Free Palestine. But saying that isn't enough. You won't change the world by tweeting that. I'm not going to change anything by writing Backloggd reviews, and I'm kidding myself if I think I am. We gotta get out there. We gotta do something.