SLUDGE LIFE's beauty is in how ugly it is. Many games that live a streetpunk/societal collapse/urban decay lifestyle are very pretty or aesthetic or "livably interesting". SLUDGE LIFE is a smog-choked, pollution swamped, actively-in-crisis place. Living in the environment of SLUDGE LIFE is not pleasant. Ghost is not punky scamp, they are an actively destructive shitbag who negatively effects the society they live in. But in spite of that, the people of the sludge island still hold their lives. They find beauty in stolen laundry machines and cigarettes and pool showers. The island is small and limiting in the same way a collapsing drive-through town is. Its grimy beauty feels more real to me because of that. The island isn't realistic, but it is "real".

Stay easy, I guess.