It was part of the "Missing Calm" Bundle (the publisher) that contained the game "Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk" that I really wanted to play. The bundle was around 5 dollars. I thought I'd give it a shot since it was in it.
Brief Description
The main point of the game is to randomly type letters on your actual keyboard and the in game computer will then write a story with each keystrokes. Let me tell you-- you will have to type A LOT for 10-15 minutes to finish the game. Be careful of like cramping ur hands or forearm or wrist or something from going too fast. Mine hurt after, haha.
The entire game takes place in a small room with about 5 interactable objects. There is a poster of John Lennon, some incense, a religious statue, a light switch, a door, and an unmade bed. There is also a window that had emitted some good ambient sounds throughout the game. The focus of the game, however, as prefaced before is the desk with a computer turned on.
Well, in the first 2 minutes I was being goofy, and I reset the computer on the desktop tower about 20 times in the span of 5 seconds and laughed. I then tried to click on the monitor to actually start the story, and the game crashed. I was scared it was hacking me or something because a weird popup with the application icon appeared for a second, but it's just a harmless unity game. I restarted the game and it was fine (also scanned my computer and it was fine). I'm pretty sure it's because I clicked the computer tower in game 20 times too fast.
I then began to type away. Loudly. Into my IRL desktop microphone so my friends that I was streaming it to could hear every chaotic button press for 10 minutes without noise suppression on.
Pros
-I really liked the ambiance and sound usage. Kinda creeped me out midway through the story, which was a plus.
-The pixel graphics are cool.
-I like some of the details in the story and the ending.
Cons
-It is really cool that this small indie game is in English, Dutch, and Russian. However, as I read this in English, I did not like the writing all that much. You can tell the author had a very extended vocabulary, but every sentence was wayyyyy too wordy, and on top of that, the author jumped from topic to topic every other sentence. It was extremely hard to follow because of those two things, and on top of that, you manually typing for 15 minutes what felt like thousands of letters just made it so distracting. I was more focused on my fingers than the story right in front of me. I still read, or tried to. I think I got the gist of the plot like completely though, it was just drowning in unnecessary descriptions and details.
-You know... I do not think any other game utilizes the gameplay mechanic of "type random letter and it'll type something completely different on the in-game computer monitor" as much as this game. The only other time I've seen something like this is in other games where you type randomly and it inputs the correct password to login. That being said, I think this game is an example of why you cannot use that gameplay mechanic for lengthy paragraphs and words. It just is uncomfortable and monotonous for the player.
-The story was okay. I do not think it was all that worth it, the physical strain of my arm, haha.
It was an okay experience. I do not heavily regret playing this, but I would not actively recommend others to.
Brief Description
The main point of the game is to randomly type letters on your actual keyboard and the in game computer will then write a story with each keystrokes. Let me tell you-- you will have to type A LOT for 10-15 minutes to finish the game. Be careful of like cramping ur hands or forearm or wrist or something from going too fast. Mine hurt after, haha.
The entire game takes place in a small room with about 5 interactable objects. There is a poster of John Lennon, some incense, a religious statue, a light switch, a door, and an unmade bed. There is also a window that had emitted some good ambient sounds throughout the game. The focus of the game, however, as prefaced before is the desk with a computer turned on.
Well, in the first 2 minutes I was being goofy, and I reset the computer on the desktop tower about 20 times in the span of 5 seconds and laughed. I then tried to click on the monitor to actually start the story, and the game crashed. I was scared it was hacking me or something because a weird popup with the application icon appeared for a second, but it's just a harmless unity game. I restarted the game and it was fine (also scanned my computer and it was fine). I'm pretty sure it's because I clicked the computer tower in game 20 times too fast.
I then began to type away. Loudly. Into my IRL desktop microphone so my friends that I was streaming it to could hear every chaotic button press for 10 minutes without noise suppression on.
Pros
-I really liked the ambiance and sound usage. Kinda creeped me out midway through the story, which was a plus.
-The pixel graphics are cool.
-I like some of the details in the story and the ending.
Cons
-It is really cool that this small indie game is in English, Dutch, and Russian. However, as I read this in English, I did not like the writing all that much. You can tell the author had a very extended vocabulary, but every sentence was wayyyyy too wordy, and on top of that, the author jumped from topic to topic every other sentence. It was extremely hard to follow because of those two things, and on top of that, you manually typing for 15 minutes what felt like thousands of letters just made it so distracting. I was more focused on my fingers than the story right in front of me. I still read, or tried to. I think I got the gist of the plot like completely though, it was just drowning in unnecessary descriptions and details.
-You know... I do not think any other game utilizes the gameplay mechanic of "type random letter and it'll type something completely different on the in-game computer monitor" as much as this game. The only other time I've seen something like this is in other games where you type randomly and it inputs the correct password to login. That being said, I think this game is an example of why you cannot use that gameplay mechanic for lengthy paragraphs and words. It just is uncomfortable and monotonous for the player.
-The story was okay. I do not think it was all that worth it, the physical strain of my arm, haha.
It was an okay experience. I do not heavily regret playing this, but I would not actively recommend others to.