Not even being ironic here, I loved this game.
This game reminds me of GARAGE: BAD DREAM ADVENTURE, you're not in it for the gameplay, you're there for the uncanny, oppressive, and disgusting atmosphere. As games, they're tedious, clunky, and not fun in the slightest, but as art pieces, as worlds, they're very unique.
Though Funny Pizza Land captures a very different kind of fear, the fear of being trapped in a 2000's Eurojank shareware game. There were so many horribly jank platformers/adventure games that you'd get on a CD from your Eastern European uncle back then, games that were unintentionally unsettling and awful. FPL is definitely trying to be weird, but not overtly creepy, it's trying to be ugly and quirky, but comes off as horrifying.
If you grew up in the 90's or 2000's and played a lot of shareware, play this game. It will take you back to an era where this was all you had. You had to invest your child mind into this grotesque world, dealing with its disgusting looking characters, awful controls, and buggy collision. We don't see this kind of earnest attempt anymore, if FPL were made today, it would be some lame "analogue horror" wannabe and have no real meat to it other than trying to play off of your childhood fears. FPL never set out to do that, it just naturally IS fucking awful.
This game reminds me of GARAGE: BAD DREAM ADVENTURE, you're not in it for the gameplay, you're there for the uncanny, oppressive, and disgusting atmosphere. As games, they're tedious, clunky, and not fun in the slightest, but as art pieces, as worlds, they're very unique.
Though Funny Pizza Land captures a very different kind of fear, the fear of being trapped in a 2000's Eurojank shareware game. There were so many horribly jank platformers/adventure games that you'd get on a CD from your Eastern European uncle back then, games that were unintentionally unsettling and awful. FPL is definitely trying to be weird, but not overtly creepy, it's trying to be ugly and quirky, but comes off as horrifying.
If you grew up in the 90's or 2000's and played a lot of shareware, play this game. It will take you back to an era where this was all you had. You had to invest your child mind into this grotesque world, dealing with its disgusting looking characters, awful controls, and buggy collision. We don't see this kind of earnest attempt anymore, if FPL were made today, it would be some lame "analogue horror" wannabe and have no real meat to it other than trying to play off of your childhood fears. FPL never set out to do that, it just naturally IS fucking awful.