Posted on: February 13, 2025
Burrito
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Pretty. Also pretty awful.
Pros : - The art is solid - There's a lot of variety between locations - Audio is (usually) also pretty well suited to the scene and the emotions the designers were trying to envoke. Cons : - Puzzles enter into "rub everything on everything else to guess what the designer was thinking" territory at times. - The plot is.... ...is... ...okay, so the Main Character is a young Jewish man (see the pics above, check the hat) whose three bosses are identical bobble-headed antisemetic cariactures, heartless money-lenders who send the MC out to repossess property from people. (It's not just the character design, there's lots of word choice and behaviors that invoke early 20th century stereotypes of European Jews.) MC has a couple of different repos to perform, necessitating some item based "classic adventure game puzzle solving", at one point literally performing the blood libel because it's the only "Rub A On B" option that (through an unpredictable and illogical chain of consequences) allows the plot to continue. Eventually he makes partner in the firm, and without the player's input (or even awareness until after the fact) he's so heartbroken over what he's become that he quits, instead of improving things now that he actually has the power to do so, and decides to "EAT A BIG SANDWICH" in the ending cutscene. So it's a moon-logic puzzle game with excellently executed atmosphere, whose core message is about how terrible "those people" are. Our "hero" "saves" himself from "moral degeneration" in "their" presence by taking a gun and .... eating that sandwich. A solid skip. Like, skip it if you got it for free. I feel a little disgusted just rereading my review above. (I got this and the sequel simultaneously during a deep, deep discount sale, so I peeked at #2 for about fifteen minutes too - more of the same, just happening in hell / a dreamscape / wherever, so it's narratively justified for the puzzles to make even LESS sense.)
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