I think what initially put me off so much was the photocopier system, I get that it's just classic Resident Evil and stuff like that, but it obviously feels just a little disheartening, dying after being unable to save for like an hour. This was my experience, died after a boss, couldn't find any witch paper, and once I realized where I had reloaded, I closed the game and went ''eh, i'll get back to it later."
Later was actually, uh. 7 months.
To start off, because this is the number one determining factor in Will I Play This Game nowadays, the music bangs. I got into this game solely because of its music, and who composed it. By complete chance, too, I just remember going on Garoad's Bandcamp and seeing Yuppie Psycho, and obviously I have to play it if the composer for my favorite thing ever also helped on it. Was also fun hearing another name I recognized, Adriana Figueroa, in the "Voice" cassette.
The horror is cool, too. I love the more silent types of horror, where the fear sorta comes from just how cold and mysterious everything feels. You'll realize, this is not something I know how to put into words very well. It's atmospheric, I guess. Just an office building with some scary monsters and zombie employees, which makes interactions with all the named characters a little more fun to see.
I'm also bad at puzzles! The more subtle ones, at least. I messed up damn near all of the cocoon questions besides the very last one, which, hindsight is 20-20, not sure how I got any of those wrong, I missed a few couple of the familiar pictures, missed a few VHS tapes, I missed an entire route of the game, I missed a lot. But I enjoyed Yuppie Psycho enough to where I'm truly considering just playing it again to find all of that. I doubt I need to, I could easily just reload a good save and pick up from there, but I liked this game a lot. I would be more than willing to go through it a second time, doing things a little differently so I can see the rest of it. Especially since I played the first couple hours seven months ago, and might have a hard time remembering all of it.
Damn good, 9/10 game. Way shorter than I was expecting, too.
Later was actually, uh. 7 months.
To start off, because this is the number one determining factor in Will I Play This Game nowadays, the music bangs. I got into this game solely because of its music, and who composed it. By complete chance, too, I just remember going on Garoad's Bandcamp and seeing Yuppie Psycho, and obviously I have to play it if the composer for my favorite thing ever also helped on it. Was also fun hearing another name I recognized, Adriana Figueroa, in the "Voice" cassette.
The horror is cool, too. I love the more silent types of horror, where the fear sorta comes from just how cold and mysterious everything feels. You'll realize, this is not something I know how to put into words very well. It's atmospheric, I guess. Just an office building with some scary monsters and zombie employees, which makes interactions with all the named characters a little more fun to see.
I'm also bad at puzzles! The more subtle ones, at least. I messed up damn near all of the cocoon questions besides the very last one, which, hindsight is 20-20, not sure how I got any of those wrong, I missed a few couple of the familiar pictures, missed a few VHS tapes, I missed an entire route of the game, I missed a lot. But I enjoyed Yuppie Psycho enough to where I'm truly considering just playing it again to find all of that. I doubt I need to, I could easily just reload a good save and pick up from there, but I liked this game a lot. I would be more than willing to go through it a second time, doing things a little differently so I can see the rest of it. Especially since I played the first couple hours seven months ago, and might have a hard time remembering all of it.
Damn good, 9/10 game. Way shorter than I was expecting, too.