little_lagomorph
This review contains spoilers
Fuck this game, fuck this writer. This game is a repulsive piece of shit with absolutely nothing redeeming to say.
The entire premise of this game is that you are Nicole, daughter of Leonard. Ten years ago, Leonard, then-39, had an affair with Rachel, then-16. "Huh," I hear you say. "That's pretty gross." It sure is! And it is acknowledged a total of once that that's kind of icky and then never again! In fact, Leonard is just a sad old man, mourning the loss of his sixteen-year-old girlfriend. The twist is that Nicole's mom killed Rachel, by the way, and Nicole sucks for, I dunno, being sixteen and jealous of another girl. Your takeaway is supposed to be "wahhh I'm so fucking sad for the pedophile and FUCK his BITCH WIFE".
Fuck you, Daniele Azara. Fuck you, One-O-One Games. Fuck every single person involved in creating this. I've never been angrier after finishing a game. And no, I'm not tagging this for spoilers, because I don't want anyone to play this. Thank god I didn't give this company money for this fucking atrocity.
The entire premise of this game is that you are Nicole, daughter of Leonard. Ten years ago, Leonard, then-39, had an affair with Rachel, then-16. "Huh," I hear you say. "That's pretty gross." It sure is! And it is acknowledged a total of once that that's kind of icky and then never again! In fact, Leonard is just a sad old man, mourning the loss of his sixteen-year-old girlfriend. The twist is that Nicole's mom killed Rachel, by the way, and Nicole sucks for, I dunno, being sixteen and jealous of another girl. Your takeaway is supposed to be "wahhh I'm so fucking sad for the pedophile and FUCK his BITCH WIFE".
Fuck you, Daniele Azara. Fuck you, One-O-One Games. Fuck every single person involved in creating this. I've never been angrier after finishing a game. And no, I'm not tagging this for spoilers, because I don't want anyone to play this. Thank god I didn't give this company money for this fucking atrocity.
as a gay man: this game is a homophobic nightmare and i cannot fucking stand it.
2013
this game is a racist nightmare with absolutely nothing worthwhile to say and doesn't even have the good graces to be fun. it's like a cake secretly full of salt instead of sugar: pretty, but absolutely repulsive.
1999
i love this game. this is one of the best adventure games of all time, hands down. it really holds up even 20 years later. it's beautiful and fun and awe-inspiring. if you like adventure games 100% play this.
2006
i enjoyed playing this game a lot. it runs beautifully on my modern rig, and the gameplay holds up pretty damn well for a shooter from 2006, especially since the game was in development for 11 years. it looks good too; you can tell it's old, and there are some places it hasn't aged well, but overall it looks great.
i do commend them for hiring actual native american voice actors, and michael greyeyes is great as the lead. the writing of tommy's dialogue is also very funny and entertaining.
i will say that i am not native american (i'm asian-canadian), so i can't really speak on that aspect of the game? HOWEVER, in doing research i found that prey 2006 seems to have employed cultural consultants and sensitivity readers, and that everything has basis in real cherokee oral traditions. i also haven't really found major complaints about its portrayal of cherokee people, just points about minor inaccuracies. to me, it feels as though the game was really trying to do what it was doing respectfully, although again i am not native so i'm not the authority on that.
all in all, i think it's a really enjoyable game. i was pretty surprised at how much i liked it.
i do commend them for hiring actual native american voice actors, and michael greyeyes is great as the lead. the writing of tommy's dialogue is also very funny and entertaining.
i will say that i am not native american (i'm asian-canadian), so i can't really speak on that aspect of the game? HOWEVER, in doing research i found that prey 2006 seems to have employed cultural consultants and sensitivity readers, and that everything has basis in real cherokee oral traditions. i also haven't really found major complaints about its portrayal of cherokee people, just points about minor inaccuracies. to me, it feels as though the game was really trying to do what it was doing respectfully, although again i am not native so i'm not the authority on that.
all in all, i think it's a really enjoyable game. i was pretty surprised at how much i liked it.
2019
the gameplay loop is fine, i enjoy that well enough. i downloaded it honestly because i thought it would be a fun idle game and i could look at some decently attractive men in the process but honestly it just ended up pissing me off.
the writing is horrendously annoying. i know this is personal preference, but my personal preference is not this. there were a couple good gags, but otherwise the characters repeat the same 5 lines per relationship rank and it gets old fast. also, the designs are uninspired at best - they share basically zero characteristics with their animal forms other than eye and hair colour. you really made the wolf guy a skinny white twink who wears pristine dress shirts? really? at least three of the characters look near identical and at least two DRESS identically.
then there's the pegasus, eli. he is literally a homophobic stereotype, and i don't accuse writers of this lightly. it's actually genuinely offensive. you can really tell from the get-go that this was made for straight women and not gay men and it's incredibly unsettling to play as a gay man.
anyway, bad game! do not recommend. make something interesting with this gameplay loop and maybe i'll come back.
the writing is horrendously annoying. i know this is personal preference, but my personal preference is not this. there were a couple good gags, but otherwise the characters repeat the same 5 lines per relationship rank and it gets old fast. also, the designs are uninspired at best - they share basically zero characteristics with their animal forms other than eye and hair colour. you really made the wolf guy a skinny white twink who wears pristine dress shirts? really? at least three of the characters look near identical and at least two DRESS identically.
then there's the pegasus, eli. he is literally a homophobic stereotype, and i don't accuse writers of this lightly. it's actually genuinely offensive. you can really tell from the get-go that this was made for straight women and not gay men and it's incredibly unsettling to play as a gay man.
anyway, bad game! do not recommend. make something interesting with this gameplay loop and maybe i'll come back.
2017
bit short but lovely all the same. i highly appreciated the "dying while trans" newsletter
2007
great story, horrible gameplay. would recommend watching a cutscene movie or something. feels like walking through molasses.
DNF, sorry. i wanted to like this but i just do not think that a bullet hell typing game is for me. besides that, the writing makes me completely unwilling to return to this - it's frankly atrocious, the "haha funny jokes" making me feel like i was being driven to an early grave. some of them seem outright malicious.
2015
i'm 21 years old and i don't have any kids. i would have loved this as a kid however. 10/10
great classic adventure game with a good spooky atmosphere, despite its clunkiness.
2016
Cat.
interesting. unsettling, although that may be because i played it at 11pm in the dark alone. was kinda hard to tell if things were glitches or intentional sometimes, which is a bad sign, but i didn't hate it.
2012
highly enjoyable, but one of those games i can't imagine playing without friends. significantly less fun without other people. holds up well.
2006
shows its age but it's still fun so whatever