NorfLudens
2024
visualy game really spoke to me
but everything else - didn't
i dropped it at the end, because while everything in the path towards ending was mildly frustrating, the final stage - was insufferable
it culminated into lump of annoyance, i had to drop it
i just couldn't shake the vibe that the author was inspired by other games (understandable), and tried to replicate feelings that those games gave them
but there's always a but
in my opinion - which is of course subjective - they didn't fully understood what made writing in those games actually interesting and not just """weird"""
author probably had inspiration and cool gameplay idea, but when it came to execution - well they didn't exactly fail, but every second i felt that game was lacking something:
the "cooking" part is fine if a little janky (which is fine), but when its gets difficult the jank for me just brakes it
the fact that you need to listen dialogues in order to progress was fine at the start, but then i realized that they are basically filler dialogues, a little random and about nothing in particular
im glad that for some people they sounded interesting and meaningful but you can find meaning even in your boogers (which is also fine, its just not what i wanna do)
so yeah, that was my little #rant
also, i dont know this for sure, but looking at the rating it feels like a lot of people found this game through some "video essay", so i wanna finish off with this - i am again genuinely glad that people play games like this and they find something in them, but i am a little sad that games that IN MY OPINION deserve same amount of love - dont get it, for whatever fk reason
but everything else - didn't
i dropped it at the end, because while everything in the path towards ending was mildly frustrating, the final stage - was insufferable
it culminated into lump of annoyance, i had to drop it
i just couldn't shake the vibe that the author was inspired by other games (understandable), and tried to replicate feelings that those games gave them
but there's always a but
in my opinion - which is of course subjective - they didn't fully understood what made writing in those games actually interesting and not just """weird"""
author probably had inspiration and cool gameplay idea, but when it came to execution - well they didn't exactly fail, but every second i felt that game was lacking something:
the "cooking" part is fine if a little janky (which is fine), but when its gets difficult the jank for me just brakes it
the fact that you need to listen dialogues in order to progress was fine at the start, but then i realized that they are basically filler dialogues, a little random and about nothing in particular
im glad that for some people they sounded interesting and meaningful but you can find meaning even in your boogers (which is also fine, its just not what i wanna do)
so yeah, that was my little #rant
also, i dont know this for sure, but looking at the rating it feels like a lot of people found this game through some "video essay", so i wanna finish off with this - i am again genuinely glad that people play games like this and they find something in them, but i am a little sad that games that IN MY OPINION deserve same amount of love - dont get it, for whatever fk reason
2023
2020
ate a snail-looking-thing and psilocybin mushroom, did a frontflip while smoking a cig, peed from the skyscraper, took a 200 photos of cool shit, fell in love with washing-machine-thief-lady, vibed out with big mud, tagged everything and played a Crypt Creeper on my laptop while spiritually supporting workers on strike
what else could you want from a videogame
what else could you want from a videogame
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2022
2022
how can you have a bunch of cool ideas and strong sense of identity and style, and then ruin it by uninspired level design and dumbest enemy placement (i.e just throwing every single enemy in the small cramped room without thinking)
i wish i liked it more
(btw, game doesn't tell you this, but when you dead, you can press "T" for instant respawn for free)
i wish i liked it more
(btw, game doesn't tell you this, but when you dead, you can press "T" for instant respawn for free)
2024