meh
not really invested
not really invested
As much as I enjoy exploring the geocities style webpages and seeing all of the characters, the game ruined itself to me through making me care too much about them to see the plot writing fall apart at it's climax and full ending and be able to enjoy it in any way.
I stand with Gooper.
the internet was never a truly free or equitable space and was always being restrained and manipulated by capital forces but we really have traded away something so special for the sake of "streamlined user experience" without even realizing it and I doubt we can ever go back
Professor Helper here, ready to help!
Unique concept, good execution, okay narrative. Wish it was a bit longer.
I STAND WITH GOOPER
An oftentimes equally hilarious and cringeworthy jaunt into MySpace/AOL era nostalgia, Hypnospace Outlaw is a dense puzzle game that doesn't appear to be a puzzle game. The "puzzles" in question require you to be something of a detective, searching through webpage after webpage of crunchy, late-90s esque programming to find the next clue. I found some of the puzzles to be a bit too dense for my liking, but ultimately this game is worth it.
7/10
An oftentimes equally hilarious and cringeworthy jaunt into MySpace/AOL era nostalgia, Hypnospace Outlaw is a dense puzzle game that doesn't appear to be a puzzle game. The "puzzles" in question require you to be something of a detective, searching through webpage after webpage of crunchy, late-90s esque programming to find the next clue. I found some of the puzzles to be a bit too dense for my liking, but ultimately this game is worth it.
7/10
I played a bit of this on console and I liked what I saw. It's cute and funny and I got the gist of it all. I would probably play through it all on a PC but I don't have one.
Such a texture rich and wonderfully themed puzzle game. Some of the puzzles were a bit too obtuse for my monke brain, but I loved it nonetheless
The visuals are pretty neat, and the gameplay/setting is such a nostalgic "back to the past". I've really enjoyed it, and the fact that it's a short game makes it better. Happy 2000!
A.k.a., "90's Internet Simulator". Captura de forma magnífica a cultura e estética da internet em seus primórdios para entregar uma história super-intrigante. Recomendado especialmente para quem cresceu ouvindo o som de modens discados. (e depois de jogar descobri que é do mesmo criador de Dropsy. Isso explica muita coisa)
This is one of those game worlds that is just fun to exist in. The puzzles are challenging, but as long as you just have fun browsing everything you'll figure it all out. One of my favorite games ever
There's something to this game that may or may not grasp your attention enough to make you think that behind the text and images there's actual people with stories that in another world could be very well real
The music is amazing
The music is amazing
Ser policía no es problemático solo por cuestiones éticas al parecer también es un coñazo
Gamifying my love of crawling through old geocities pages with a compelling narrative, hilarious gags and far too much stuff to discover. Yeah, this is the shit right here.
a detective noir that has been blown out, artifacted, and compressed and saved over and over again that eventually tumbles into your mailbox in the form of a Free AOL disc
An ambitious game that has a lot of affection for the beginnings of internet history and what we might have lost to time. It stumbles here and there and the ending nearly lost me until I realized what the Hypnospace Outlaw was actually about. It could use some polish, but all in all, a charming game to explore
Phenomenal game; Beautiful.
I never thought a video game would make me wistful for the days of people embedding autoplay midi files on their geocities homepage
what a wonderful game
While I can appreciate the aesthetic and the feeling of Web 1.0 it was trying to recreate (I myself miss Web 1.0), the game left me with a massive migraine and even crashed. I think there's a memory leak even on XBox One because everything started slowing down the longer I played.
Can't recommend, but can appreciate what it tried to do.
Can't recommend, but can appreciate what it tried to do.
the internet is truly an incredible videogame
Hilarious and genuinely moving. The best depiction of the internet I've ever seen in a video game. The soundtrack is amazing. I love that there's a six and a half minute power ballad about shaving, and the credits theme makes me emotional.
This review contains spoilers
Shows dedication to exploring different internet scenes and their real-life contextualizations for why their users participate, but has no conclusion that ties all of the work together to lead to something meaningful for me. The Goodtime Valley zone on its own is remarkable for its understanding of senior isolation and how much its users desire to leave some mark of their life online, even if messily formatted. But there's never something that feels like a satisfying conclusion for the issues that each zone's users face, instead substituted by an ending that has little to no follow-up on themes hinted at earlier such as landlord exploitation of internet communities that leave artists little to no avenue to establish a career path or how cyber bullying is directed to establish any sense of masculine identity. I'm probably running against the developer's initial goal to just make a game that satires corporate domination of the internet, but I see so much strength in its individual elements that I wonder what would happened if they had been focused on more without keeping up a conspiratorial story at the same time.
Efetivamente um jogo de detetive muito charmoso. O jogo simula a internet dos anos 90 em um contexto mais radical: ela é acessada através de seus sonhos, e você é um moderador designado para protegê-la de males como assédio e (:o) copyright infringement. A estética de “flogão” e a corrida do ouro da internet é muito bem representada aqui, e o jogo soube guiar os seus puzzles muito bem, de forma em que você precisa realmente conhecer quem são as pessoas por trás dos sites para progredir na história, o que humaniza e dá muito caráter à escrita - um dos momentos mais especiais foi descobrir que a minha blogueira favorita tinha morrido no Y2K crash.
Infelizmente, fiquei um pouco impaciente com ele mais pro final, querendo só terminá-lo e seguir em frente - o jogo estava cobrando um nível bem alto de entendimento de seitas e pessoas que não me interessavam tanto, e por isso apelei pesadamente para o sistema de dicas do jogo. No fim, acabou sendo uma experiência única e interessante que terminei amargamente, mas uma pessoa mais disposta teria muito mais a tirar deste jogo do que eu.
Infelizmente, fiquei um pouco impaciente com ele mais pro final, querendo só terminá-lo e seguir em frente - o jogo estava cobrando um nível bem alto de entendimento de seitas e pessoas que não me interessavam tanto, e por isso apelei pesadamente para o sistema de dicas do jogo. No fim, acabou sendo uma experiência única e interessante que terminei amargamente, mas uma pessoa mais disposta teria muito mais a tirar deste jogo do que eu.
I absolutely love the style and everything, but I just used a guide to do the actual gameplay stuff, was not in a reading mood
i think i missed the age portrayed in this game but the game somehow still makes me feel a strange kind of sadness. human isolation and the desire to reach out exists in every space
Coolpunks forever
REMOVED DUE TO VIOLATION OF HYPNOSPACE LAW
Very cool concept, recreating a fictional internet circa 1999 complete with hundreds of old school webpages, music files, images, games, and movie clips. Its mostly a detective puzzle game as you use the tools of your fake PC and search engine to locate "criminals" violating the programs laws. Most of the puzzles are well designed with enough direction to give you a nice push but you having full freedom to investigate on your own. I did get stuck a few times but there is an in game hint stuff for the more obscure solutions, one can become stuck and since there is so much to search it might feel like hitting a wall.
Still it remains in interesting for the 6-8 hours it lasts, it progresses well and has so much interesting side content you dont even need to read. The devs clearly put tons of effort into making this feel like a true fictional internet full of made up news, made up sports, made up products. There are fake pokemon, fake video game reviews, fake book clubs and much more. By far the best are the fake music bands and the included songs all throughout the game. Catchy jingles, so bad its great rock songs, I cannot express how incredible the soundtrack is.
Its cool, simple browser puzzle game that stands out due to the creativity on the fictional world they created.
Score 6.8
Still it remains in interesting for the 6-8 hours it lasts, it progresses well and has so much interesting side content you dont even need to read. The devs clearly put tons of effort into making this feel like a true fictional internet full of made up news, made up sports, made up products. There are fake pokemon, fake video game reviews, fake book clubs and much more. By far the best are the fake music bands and the included songs all throughout the game. Catchy jingles, so bad its great rock songs, I cannot express how incredible the soundtrack is.
Its cool, simple browser puzzle game that stands out due to the creativity on the fictional world they created.
Score 6.8