The meh-est game experience I've indulged myself in (at least in a long time). I kinda expected that going into this, which is why by the end I was eating pizza with one hand and playing the game with the other. Overall the recognition that I've seen this game get does not line up with the quality of the experience …
The meh-est game experience I've indulged myself in (at least in a long time). I kinda expected that going into this, which is why by the end I was eating pizza with one hand and playing the game with the other. Overall the recognition that I've seen this game get does not line up with the quality of the experience I had with it.
Imagine taking iconic parts from popular "nerd culture" media and just gluing them all together haphazardly with no sense of coherency or reason, then add a few uninspired tracks and sound effects, decent visuals, and mindless game-play. That's what this game felt like to me, and I'm not really upset that I played through it, especially since it was just a 2 hour experience.
For what it's worth, it feels more like a creation of the developer's own self-amusement, and by that light-hearted nature, it makes sense that it just feels so unfocused to me. I also get how that can sorta happen naturally with its main gimmick, but while playing I couldn't help but think of how easily that concept of evolving into a more complex game could be built off of with more intention and nuance to make a more (personally) engaging experience. But of course that's not what this game was aiming for, because for what the gimmick was, it felt trivialized and put to the side quickly to then also show off the game's on-the-nose references with simple game-play.
At least the (JRPG) pause menu's portrait art was cute.
