This review contains spoilers
this game is interesting to me but not because of what's in the actual game but moreso what's NOT said in the actual game.
hey daniel, what did you mean when you laughed about p03 being just straight up evil with no further depth than 'being evil'? did you write in all that nuance for him by complete accident? even if you were just, you know. joking. can you believe that it's still completely conceivable to me that you would be this blind to your own damn game? considering the existence of the stupid fucking arg and everything. which, by the way... what were you thinking? i can't even bring myself to talk about it because of how stupid it is. i just can't believe an actual human being sat down and spent time writing/developing it and then went 'yeah this sounds great. post that shit'. you spent so much time building up intrigue within inscryption only for the conclusion to turn out to be... this bullshit?
luke was a completely unnecessary addition to the game and added nothing to the story. i know he's only there to add a 'found footage' sort of vibe to the whole thing, but eh. i feel like it took agency away from the player somehow. his death meant nothing to me because i did not give a fuck lol
i would agree with the people who didn't like act 2; i wasn't that big of a fan either. it was just kinda grindy and boring. but i will defend act 3. i understand why people wouldn't like it, but i really enjoyed the atmosphere and mechanics of it. though everything after act 1 is just a huge mixed bag, really.
i have around 90 hours in this game. do not play this unless you want to get mad or if you plan to just turn your brain off completely and not think about anything that happens. i think this game was completely ruined by the creator's desire to create a 'daniel mullins cinematic universe' and to continue the story in a fucking arg that ruins the entire game rather than just doing what every rational game dev does which is to spend time actually developing the writing for shit that occurs within the actual game. if anything, i think he accidentally stumbled into an interesting concept and then fumbled the bag extremely hard from that point on.
but hey, at least the card games were fun.
hey daniel, what did you mean when you laughed about p03 being just straight up evil with no further depth than 'being evil'? did you write in all that nuance for him by complete accident? even if you were just, you know. joking. can you believe that it's still completely conceivable to me that you would be this blind to your own damn game? considering the existence of the stupid fucking arg and everything. which, by the way... what were you thinking? i can't even bring myself to talk about it because of how stupid it is. i just can't believe an actual human being sat down and spent time writing/developing it and then went 'yeah this sounds great. post that shit'. you spent so much time building up intrigue within inscryption only for the conclusion to turn out to be... this bullshit?
luke was a completely unnecessary addition to the game and added nothing to the story. i know he's only there to add a 'found footage' sort of vibe to the whole thing, but eh. i feel like it took agency away from the player somehow. his death meant nothing to me because i did not give a fuck lol
i would agree with the people who didn't like act 2; i wasn't that big of a fan either. it was just kinda grindy and boring. but i will defend act 3. i understand why people wouldn't like it, but i really enjoyed the atmosphere and mechanics of it. though everything after act 1 is just a huge mixed bag, really.
i have around 90 hours in this game. do not play this unless you want to get mad or if you plan to just turn your brain off completely and not think about anything that happens. i think this game was completely ruined by the creator's desire to create a 'daniel mullins cinematic universe' and to continue the story in a fucking arg that ruins the entire game rather than just doing what every rational game dev does which is to spend time actually developing the writing for shit that occurs within the actual game. if anything, i think he accidentally stumbled into an interesting concept and then fumbled the bag extremely hard from that point on.
but hey, at least the card games were fun.