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shelved in 40 mins lmfao. grates on my brain. will check out pathologic 2
proper review coming when i get through more playthroughs but i just have to get this out: this game has some bonafide pure autism flavor CRACK in it.....tell me why i spent AN ENTIRE DAY playing this, literally trapped in tism'd tunnel vision trying to make That Stupid JROTC Twunk go to therapy. the PERILS of good character design the PERILS of promising + relatable early characterization the PERILS of dropping lore as insane as [insert genetic enhancement] right as im starting to get tired of his ass. just pissed me off so bad omggg [character in abusive relationship/Psychological Bondage with twunk] i UNDERSTAND you, we are sisterwives atp
anyway ive given up on that endeavor bc like i have a LIFE and a HOME and a MAN and PHOTOSENSITIVITY and RENT TO PAY i cannot be glued to the SteamDeck® like this! i really just got so irked that I didn't get the outcome i was casually seeking out that i spent hours backtracking and/or save-scumming (if it should be called that in such a game) to resolve the frustration and dissonance. classic erik moment #MentalHealthMatters
unfortunately this mental reset will NOT free me from this game's clutches (ive done three? four?playthroughs, technically) bc every playthrough my blue hair and pronouns femme queen will stumble upon a piece of interesting game-changing lore that i know i can learn more about it if i reincarnate and start EngineerMaxxing from birth 😭 Nigerian Father Mode ON ☝🏿
anyway . shit need to come with a surgeon generals warning.....its 5 am, i have work today......five stars
anyway ive given up on that endeavor bc like i have a LIFE and a HOME and a MAN and PHOTOSENSITIVITY and RENT TO PAY i cannot be glued to the SteamDeck® like this! i really just got so irked that I didn't get the outcome i was casually seeking out that i spent hours backtracking and/or save-scumming (if it should be called that in such a game) to resolve the frustration and dissonance. classic erik moment #MentalHealthMatters
unfortunately this mental reset will NOT free me from this game's clutches (ive done three? four?playthroughs, technically) bc every playthrough my blue hair and pronouns femme queen will stumble upon a piece of interesting game-changing lore that i know i can learn more about it if i reincarnate and start EngineerMaxxing from birth 😭 Nigerian Father Mode ON ☝🏿
anyway . shit need to come with a surgeon generals warning.....its 5 am, i have work today......five stars
This review contains spoilers
has such a deeply unsettling atmosphere that i can only describe as "yucky". the characters don't feel as if they live in real life, or anywhere in particular, just in some stateless featureless formless loop of vaguely urban existence. the visuals, from the 1-bit to the grainy 3D to all those uncanny expressions (and faces, period) all perfectly coalesce to build this aura
one of very few games with multiple endings that ive made the effort to get (almost lol) every ending. this would've extremely tedious if i didn't have the foresight to make multiple saves at multiple junctions that seemed important, and even then i was getting frustrated going through the motions of the last couple ones (especially the one with the expression in the beginning. iykyk). if it didnt have an easy mode id have been so over it. about halfway through the endings it just became untenable to spend time figuring out what to do next without a guide
(getting this to work properly on steam deck was a struggle, but maybe all the troubleshooting added to the experience idk. shoutout to https://steamcommunity.com/app/1697700/discussions/0/3362524231616178866/?tscn=1701468059#c7342617747186893594. why is this game still listed as verified for steam deck???)
idk how i feel about the ending/cumulative story. on one hand, i could see it coming, the hints at what was going on were well placed and spread out over routes. but the detective yu reveal in particular kind of irked me. it's interesting, but underneath the competence i can still identify what feels like a cheap shot/genre cliche — yet another "YOU are part of the game too" twist. but when you think abt the conceit of the game, "playing" by "playing" will, like a puppeteer.... idk what i expected.jpg
but you know what? i did buy this game bc of jacob geller's mention of it in a video essay, and bc i caught wind that there was an 8 hour video essay just on the game (also it was on sale). so, really, as i add that behemoth of a video to my watchlist, i am being tricked by lila, i am yu, i am pursuing endless, futile mystery... we're all feeding lila, an ouroboros of hunger and consumption...
you could even say that lila.....ate. [dragged off stage]
(speaking of yu the reveal for him should've been so cheesy considering the can-hardly-be-called-a-pun but i was genuinely confused because martha had said he was asian ["or something"] and his image did not appear to be [bl]asian so it stuck in my mind. so the yu/you thing genuinely pulled the rug out from under me 😭😭)
really compelled by the stranger and interested in reading more about whatever was going on there. lowkey think that is some kind of "estrogen could have saved her" moment
one of very few games with multiple endings that ive made the effort to get (almost lol) every ending. this would've extremely tedious if i didn't have the foresight to make multiple saves at multiple junctions that seemed important, and even then i was getting frustrated going through the motions of the last couple ones (especially the one with the expression in the beginning. iykyk). if it didnt have an easy mode id have been so over it. about halfway through the endings it just became untenable to spend time figuring out what to do next without a guide
(getting this to work properly on steam deck was a struggle, but maybe all the troubleshooting added to the experience idk. shoutout to https://steamcommunity.com/app/1697700/discussions/0/3362524231616178866/?tscn=1701468059#c7342617747186893594. why is this game still listed as verified for steam deck???)
idk how i feel about the ending/cumulative story. on one hand, i could see it coming, the hints at what was going on were well placed and spread out over routes. but the detective yu reveal in particular kind of irked me. it's interesting, but underneath the competence i can still identify what feels like a cheap shot/genre cliche — yet another "YOU are part of the game too" twist. but when you think abt the conceit of the game, "playing" by "playing" will, like a puppeteer.... idk what i expected.jpg
but you know what? i did buy this game bc of jacob geller's mention of it in a video essay, and bc i caught wind that there was an 8 hour video essay just on the game (also it was on sale). so, really, as i add that behemoth of a video to my watchlist, i am being tricked by lila, i am yu, i am pursuing endless, futile mystery... we're all feeding lila, an ouroboros of hunger and consumption...
you could even say that lila.....ate. [dragged off stage]
(speaking of yu the reveal for him should've been so cheesy considering the can-hardly-be-called-a-pun but i was genuinely confused because martha had said he was asian ["or something"] and his image did not appear to be [bl]asian so it stuck in my mind. so the yu/you thing genuinely pulled the rug out from under me 😭😭)
really compelled by the stranger and interested in reading more about whatever was going on there. lowkey think that is some kind of "estrogen could have saved her" moment