Milk Inside a Bag was a nice short experience, and Milk Outside a Bag is another good short experience. It expands on the concept a lot more, and you get to know more about this tragic character that's lost in their own head. Parts of her are bubbly and nice, cold and nihilistic, sad and unfulfilled. I think it does a really good job portraying this kind of character
The artstyle has been expanded upon with these really well done animations, the Serial Lain influence has been fairly palpable even in the first game, but it's even more strong here. Most of the still art is drenched in this red that's just makes this world really unsettling. I've always liked when games or media take specific colors and have them be a central focus in a world's atmosphere. It helps that the angles within the still arts are unnatural and warped, adding to the bizzare feeling. The music as well is more of the same from the first game, but improved. A lot more variety of tracks, and even a more comforting, though still haunting track to accompany the point and click section.
I think the problem with the first game was that the game was so short that you couldn't really chew much on it, so to speak. With this game, there's multiple endings, but they're mostly just you performing the same types of actions over and over with little variation of dialog to get there. The endings themselves are really well done, all being dreams that relate to parts of her psyche, trauma, etc, but they tend to make you sift through repeated dialog just to get there. Ends up just artificially lengthening your experience, and kind of takes me out of everything in the process.
I think I would love to see more from this character in a much larger project, but I'm not sure what else you could do with this concept that would warrent such an experience. What's here is pretty good though, especially from a psychological perspective. I enjoyed it much more than the first game, but I think that's because it's an expansion on that game. It's still hard to separate these experiences since they're so short and feel necessary for each other. It's like a second act in a 3 act play, and it's building to something, but isn't conclusive feeling.
The artstyle has been expanded upon with these really well done animations, the Serial Lain influence has been fairly palpable even in the first game, but it's even more strong here. Most of the still art is drenched in this red that's just makes this world really unsettling. I've always liked when games or media take specific colors and have them be a central focus in a world's atmosphere. It helps that the angles within the still arts are unnatural and warped, adding to the bizzare feeling. The music as well is more of the same from the first game, but improved. A lot more variety of tracks, and even a more comforting, though still haunting track to accompany the point and click section.
I think the problem with the first game was that the game was so short that you couldn't really chew much on it, so to speak. With this game, there's multiple endings, but they're mostly just you performing the same types of actions over and over with little variation of dialog to get there. The endings themselves are really well done, all being dreams that relate to parts of her psyche, trauma, etc, but they tend to make you sift through repeated dialog just to get there. Ends up just artificially lengthening your experience, and kind of takes me out of everything in the process.
I think I would love to see more from this character in a much larger project, but I'm not sure what else you could do with this concept that would warrent such an experience. What's here is pretty good though, especially from a psychological perspective. I enjoyed it much more than the first game, but I think that's because it's an expansion on that game. It's still hard to separate these experiences since they're so short and feel necessary for each other. It's like a second act in a 3 act play, and it's building to something, but isn't conclusive feeling.