Posted on: July 10, 2021
ziggy1031
Jeux: 27 Avis: 3
Good visuals don't make up for bad story
This game is not relatable. The main character dropped out of college after having a dissociative episode and assaulting someone, her parents are blandly supportive of her decision, despite bankrolling her education, and make zero attempts to address her violent breakdown. The main character spends her days hanging out with her friends and doing stuff like assembling a functional robot from garbage and a car battery, shoplifting and then returning the stolen items, stabbing each other in the hands over and over (seriously) and wandering around the town smashing other people's property because, and I swear this isn't reductionist at all, "crime is cool." The writing is bland, choppy, and uninteresting in an attempt to affect a naturalistic way of speaking. Imagine someone watched a great indie story like "500 Days of Summer" or "Juno" and tried to ape the style without understanding how to inform that sparse dialogue with underlying emotional resonance. There's a lot going on in the background. An eldritch cult, a cosmic cat-god thing, dungeon crawling and rhythm mini games, but none of it has any impact on the story and doesn't even serve to reinforce themes from the plot. Just feels like filler, albeit very pretty filler at times. Filler that this game didn't need. It's about an 8 hour game and cutting it down to five would have been hugely beneficial. The gameplay is reminiscent of sidescrolling platformers, but only the hub map takes any advantage of this to encourage exploration and most of the time the mechanics only serve to let you walk to the next story event instead of cutting to it immediately. All of this is a shame because the presentation is really nice. The art style is distinctive and autumnal with some legitimately impressive set pieces and a couple of interesting musical moments, but it's hard to get invested when none of it is actually adding to anything greater or leading us as an audience to any statement of purpose or satisfying conclusion.
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