the perfect 3d platformer? at least to me it is, mostly bc idc about movement or movesets or if u can break the game, that shit hella bores me but I love seeing new stuff. think that’s mostly why I go out of my way to fill blind spots in my media knowledge, I am not an artist and I am not a gamer so I don’t need stuff to personally relate to me or my struggles lol nor do I need smth that plays the best that anything has ever played. I DO need to see a sphinx w the head of a monkey and a gun toting monkey named after woody harrelson in nbk, that’s smth ive never seen before and i think that’s cool!!

wayyyy too many ancient ppl screaming into some kind of void everyday for either a new game in the franchise or a remake of one of the first three and that kind of leads me to the question of why? what’s the need and why would anyone think sony would take a chance on smth like this in current year. companies like sony no longer take interesting chances or risks and are mostly comfortable mass producing slop lol and the closest any modern game has felt to being ape escape inspired was balan which was immediately written off by the majority of ppl even tho there was like obv a lot of passion + creativity poured into it regardless of anything else

playing this ps2 game that was ported to ps4 and is playable via the ps5 but only the busted pal vers the only way to experience this actually. I need to see a game break constantly and have the weirdest visual bugs,, think the y2k aesthetic for sure played out by now but idk playing this game that constantly makes u believe in its individual worlds and drama only to be thrown the fuck out of immersion via clipping and glitching is genuinely rlly cool lol. love seeing the bones of smth that’s often times v gorgeous and breathtaking. it’s clipping bitch how about a brony version of clipping and each song starts w it’s clopping bitch how about that

reminded me lotsssss of cyber chase and that’s like a top tier scooby doo movie 🔥🔥

replayed a bit due to the sequel coming out, still holds up surprisingly well!! feel like there were 00s kids who grew up w binding of isaac/cave story and those who grow up w world of goo/plants v zombies,,,, can u guess which I am. playing stuff like this as like a nine year old kind of changed my taste in aesthetics and styles so much lol. wanted to be a scene girl rlly rlly bad growing up but obv couldn’t partially bc idk who the fuck was scene in rust belt/appalachian states. but idk this worked as a cool little lens into a world I wasn’t fully privy to,, still adore the visual style of this + it’s v unsubtle anticorp messaging,, just like when I was a kid I didnt rlly get past world two lmao. playing this w touch screen controls feels wholly wrong

reminds me more of like airport aesthetics than kids hospitals specifically like airport play areas and weird sculptures. idk maybe im talking nonsense bc ive been to exactly two airports and only on a flight one time but big memories of wandering around a kids play area when I was rlly young at a west coast one. love all the vhs stuff/home movies in this!! cool live action footage of random midwest drives and tourist traps is always appreciated!! fucks w scale in a very interesting way too like makes u feel so small and insignificant kind of like a fly on the wall or a child overhearing an argument they’re not supposed to lol,, wouldn’t surprise me if this was influenced by the toy story 2 ps1 game

hits dab pen hits dab pen hits dab pen hits dab pen AHHHHH this is lowk a perfect game 2 me!! idk to me I personally don’t care that certain clothes are gender locked like mechanically it’s annoying but politically idk I didn’t rlly expect this game to allow me to do that yk? like should they allow any gender to dress how the player wants? yeah lol duh but ALSO this game isn’t trying to make political statements (ofc all art is and them sidestepping this makes more of a statement) and is mostly appealing to actual children/normcore mfs/people who’s brains are leaking out of their skull from substance abuse. I just love getting 2 high and remembering every few weeks oh yeah I do own fashion dreamer for the nintendo switch and then playing it for an hour or so, very calm and nice vibes I love this game sm. not enough ppl talking about how the v small and minimalist environment looks rlly fucking cool and fully allows u to lock in to styling mfs, map looks like a more muted vers of this scene in ai lol https://youtu.be/IwatbUWAZ3U?si=qcOtK4G_NgBPO_Ix

-TWINK leon kennedy smh
-mostly impressed by how genuinely good those live action cutscenes look, strikes a weird balance between sam barlow and francis ford coppola’s directorial styles. weird uncanny valley look but also soooo obsessed w artifice in a way I rlly do just love. not the worlds best time to like coppola obv lol like fuck that dirty old man HOWEVER I am in love w his post 70s work and the multiple images stacked on top of each other and fading out into each other is a technique that both this game and his “post prime” work share in common. watched his ep of faerie tale theatre a couple of days ago it’s a fucking fever dream lol https://youtu.be/R7mCRpVBdPk?si=0pRZhI9zPlDfrZbn
-game is def trying 2 be disorienting by making u play through it without dialogue or subtitles which okay sure that’s cool ig but it’s a hard sell to most ppl prob that this is a game u have to play through twice and the first time with little to no info on these characters or their struggles so it’s like v hard to care about them or their struggles lol. but also I think it’s v disorienting how quickly this routinely flips between live action cutscenes animated cutscenes and then actual gameplay, it works rlly well and I love it. in game stuff also looks pretty good for a super budget game!! like models are a little bit very bad but the environments and stuff r for the most part gorgeous!! I like the sprite city backgrounds it’s cool
-gameplay p fun for a genre I don’t rlly care for and have no interest in. maybe fighting big brutes that take several deaths to actually beat is more enjoyable when the sound design is intrinsically kind of cool bc of the plots demand for it to be and on top of that I just rlly love that fmv death screen, it rocks. WISH there was destructible environments in this though so often I was hoping that would be a mechanic introduced bc idk destructible environments look great and there’s so much like little details in the backgrounds of fights. I wanna see arcade cabinet break!! I wanna see bootleg scarface poster break!!! I wanna see tv playing a movie that has a pause(?) screen break!!!!
-vulgar auteurism is sorely missing from the video game space and this fits that vibe pretty great!! ppl point to like the drakengard series as being vulgar auteur works of art but uhh visually they do not look like it!! they look like ps2 and ps3 games and that’s its own cool vibe and look but it’s not visually borrowing from weird hyper digital movies like this is!! this is so pretty tho!! squeeeenix on their damon packard shii w this one, love 2 see it
-have seen lots of ppl hating on this bc of its depictions of deaf or otherwise hearing impaired people and while I think that’s a totally valid point to bring up for ppl within those communities I find it a little strange how quick ppl from outside of those communities want to deride this game for its depictions. like idk personally I found how this game uses poc characters to be uhhh strange and a little one sided and completely devoid of characterization and fairly negative/stereotypical but also im a basic white girl what the fuck do I know. I do know that this game was seemingly created in good faith and I think a lot of what the devs said w intent in creating the game is like sweet and nice but idk it’s like a heavy grey area where most ppl discussing negative portrayals of communities in media are doing it from a point of view where they also don’t understand these issues and are seemingly fighting for these communities and like overriding their voices. very scattered thoughts lol srry
-certifiably a indie game published by one of the worlds largest and most storied studios which idk it’s fucking cool when these megacorps fund much smaller and more ambitious things. nintendo and square r big scary evil capitalistic companies I understand that but idk u don’t see rockstar or ubisoft or naughty dog or other triple a studios taking weird bizarre risks like this. it’s cool and nice 2 see!!
-they made ps4/ps5 tokyo jungle :3
-game devs pls pls pls start making easy modes for ppl that don’t care for challenge or like game mechanics im here for ur fuck story and the visuals and making a game that’s hard alienates so much of the population it’s kind of insane lol
-like death stranding kind of for ppl who are watching saturday morning cartoons in their head
-need 2 play prey (2006)!!!!

-jus super impressed by how totally sincere and genuine this takes itself it’s kind of insane tbh. like it’s all treated as this v serious and grave life or death space opera that just happens to have furries at the center of it. I fucking love when stuff that looks silly is free of pretense or irony like there’s just a part in this where fox breaks down over his dead father that just looks like him but w sunglasses. shit like that rocks
-shocked this runs and runs so well on my garbage laptop. anytime like smth gc and up runs well via emulation on my laptop it’s like wow I think it might break it but also that’s cool!! beautiful game like actually gorgeous,, some rlly cool frutiger aero type aesthetics here at times w the pretty skyboxes n clouds. last fight is visual chaos and so much to look at all at once v overwhelming but also it’s what i imagine when i see randoms pog out over the stupid dark matter shit in kirby lol.
-which yeah this has some big kirby air ride/f zero gx vibez. cool almost post apocalyptic or like pre apocalyptic but just barely cityscapes where everything looks weird and kind of futuristic and high tech but also works as a believable real city like there’s a dumb quippy moment where one of the characters says how his favorite coffee shop got blown up in one of the fights which yeah whatever cringe but it does a lot in making the world seem real and lived in. also like the f zero gamecube game this was like outsourced by nintendo to another company who seemingly made the best game in the series or in the very least reinvented a lot of stuff to make it more or less wholly diff from what came before.
-couldn’t help but pog out and compare this to the star wars prequels bc ofc. I fucking love those movies despite not giving a fuck about what came before or after, i find all of that to be kind of soulless cash grab sci fi action schlock. but those three movies are like so much more and rlly pushed the ideas of what a film like that could be back then and i think that’s rlly cool!! can’t help myself but to love how grandiose and romantic they are,, in my head they’re like what u imagine movies to be like if u hadn’t seen any other movies if that makes sense lmfao. like v traditionalist in its storytelling but when u break it down and view it from a visual standpoint and allow urself to get invested in the drama it becomes smth more. those movies r like paintings but not in a cringe every frame a painting xD way. anyhow like i said above i love stuff that’s so committed to its own vision and fictional world and doesn’t allow for itself to be ironic or insincere and both this and the prequels r like that to me. what came before it is dated boomer/gen x tier shit and what comes after it is nostalgia bait for those ppl but for this moment it’s smth rlly gorgeous and rlly genuine. star fox killing younglings or whatever the fuck who cares
-played the last three missions of this very stoned on my bathroom floor after being emo and i think that was the move,, fit the vibe of this perfectly kind of
-there’s a fucking lizard in this i loveeee lizards dude
-im a lute fangirl so yes ofc that’s why i played this through (haven’t watched his vid on it yet tho 😖)
-i just know there’s way too much yaoi about these ancient furry characters
-idk maybe the wiiu one is like secretly an underrated gem i could see that being the case
-shit had me feeling like these pics of anne hathaway playing ps2 :-)) https://x.com/mannfacts/status/1815475768568549755?s=46

emilyyyyyyy you don’t have to playyyyyyyy :-))

UNFORTUNATELY I find the writing here to be a bit incel-ish/nice guy-like and obv that’s not smth I find compelling or interesting especially when portrayed as uncritically as it is here. do rlly love the character building for characters mentioned in passing that u gleam from their bios,, cute gimmick. sucks too bc i love this thing as like a textured piece of art it rocks and so does how it shows its passage of time through media of the era, very cool though it’s funny having the mc say kind of nice guy jargon while having a mean girls icon
woah u put other indie game mascots in ur indie game??? ur one interesting chica !

got into a discussion w my bf last night over this game about how there was supposed to be this big film/video art movement in the mid 2010s bc of the widespread availability of iphone and other tech that theoretically would make film easier and more ethical to produce and how that kind of went nowhere bc film is sort of an intrinsically evil artform!!! anyhow cool that what ppl thought was gonna happen w film just happened to games instead,, pimping aint dead it just moved to the web indeed !!

love 2 get surprised by games when they’re v feminist and mature and educated in their expression of leftie politics!! this game has like rlly fucking funny and smart and angry writing and I love it and it’s cool to make an entire game about the dead wife on vhs trope lol. a trope that’s like hella overused even in art that I rlly enjoy or that otherwise has like decent politics or well written female characters. I’ve thought every lilithzone game is v cool to explore and move around in bc the physics and environments in all of their stuff rocks but it’s never rlly that political or angry and this is both which is cool and good to see an artist w a lot of range. more games need to be virtual museums and more games need to use real life footage !!!

💗💗💗big catamites energy💗💗💗

horribly translated and horribly optimized BUT I think it speaks volumes about xiri’s talents as both a game dev and a writer that sm emotion and love and passion is able to come through so clearly even though this has some of the weirdest glitches and design choices ive ever experienced. idk character designs typically don’t look like the men in these games and seeing them translated to janky 3d designs is rlly cool. entirety of the game world has a v unique unrendered type look to everything. and I just cannot gaf about how truly broken this game is when it’s doing and saying sm that other pieces of media never do…….kick me in the face plssssss it’ll make whatever I say sound like poetryyyyyyy