Originally posted by Knight:

If you are a member of the extreme left that wants sassy fat trans women making sexual advances on you, this game is for you.

Instabought!

I'm 2 hours in. After a slow start it's getting intriguing. for the current price I would suggest you to give it a try.

Originally posted by Knight:

If you are a member of the extreme left that wants sassy fat trans women making sexual advances on you, this game is for you.

What do you mean by that? Is this game feminist?

Pretty little pixels in a Point And Click Adventure Game wrapper, with an information-gathering mechanic reminiscent of Ace Attorney's psyche-lock puzzles via cocktail mixing, but ultimately presenting a shallow dystopian story of forced equity via mind-control, and little grey area whatsoever between 'chaotic violent revolution' and 'corporate-run Clockwork Orange nightmare world'.

That the creator's idea of transhumanism boils down to sticking clay pots in a person to alter how they feel and act, should reflect the absolute narrow-minded visionarily bankrupt nadir that is their vision for humanity's future via technological advancement. In short, the title tries to be a dystopian cyberpunk title, but lacks any nuance or silver lining, without having anything fresh to say. Corporations are bad, scientists are fools playing god, and anyone who tries to say otherwise is just a sympathizer to tyranny--the only answer is glorious revolution, and we are all teetering constantly on the verge of suicide and can be put there by means of a little unforeseen 'reprogramming'. Funnily, I do not mourn the creator their vision of the future, I simply wish them a quiet exit to whatever petty mental Hell they've concocted for themselves, where we're all corrupt mentally challenged molestation sheep that only they as glorious superhuman android-taught wunderkin can herd to salvation through the power bestowed upon them by the Google equivalent of God.

Would recommend VA-11-Hall-A over this for the game theme, the Chzo mythos for the point-and-click genre presentation-style, and practically anything else for its views on transhumanism and individual initiative over the group--Deus Ex would be a good start, followed by Mother 3 and maybe Baten Kaitos: Origins or Tales of Symphonia if you can somehow get ahold of them. Another recent game that comes to mind would be Iconoclasts--that seems to hold some interesting ideas regarding the struggle between group identity and technological progress, without coming to such black-and-white conclusions. The Sky's the limit--you're not missing anything here except the interesting concept of a magical cursed bartender who trades drinks in return for information to leverage in an unfriendly society.

Also, the game at one point not-so-subtly asks if you think homophobia and xenophobia should be strongarmed into oblivion by messianic mind-control, and makes deliberate note of you choosing to say that's a bad idea. So if that gives you a sense of the kind of nuance the creator concieves of in their narrative... it's disappointingly written, but the base concept had a lot of promise, and the visual style is nostalgic and a quite prettily animated callback to PC Point and Click Adventure Game days of yore. I'll just conclude with that.

--oh right. One character deliberately asserts that they are surprised at how your protagonist is stupid if you assert that women aren't oppressed in a setting where to this point, you've mostly dealt with female characters in positions of enormous legal and corporate power, while yourself being a local bartender being sized up by said women. So that's a thing.

If the scriptwriter were an anime villain, they would be Uchiha Madara trying to brain control the world by capturing the Jinchuriki, so as to elliminate all 'problematic' behavior from mankind.

That's an insta-buy. Also fascists ♥♥♥♥-off.

The game ultimately... doesn't know what the hell it wants to do with itself.

Which is surprisingly the most satisfying part of it all--as its entire narrative gives up on itself and collapses into beautiful chaos.

Also, to the former poster:

"♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, all your nightmares come to reality, inhale the gasses passed by your ubermensch taskmasters, etc., etc."

Whose a good boy? OH YOU, YOU AGAINST THE BAD THINGS AND FOR THE GOOD THINGS!

*pets it*

Also, seriously, I can't believe we've come to a day and age where Steam feels the necessity to censor s ieg he il. What fragile insects we've devolved into.

Originally posted by Munithe EXT:

It's okay but the dialogue is kinda crap and makes a lot of incorrect assumptions about human psyche. They also include some unnnecessary SJW agenda which ruins the immersion.

Welp pass then. Thank you for the info.

Va-11 Hall-A was much more interesting and managed to keep most real world politics very low and concentrated on indivudals and their personalities while hinting at the world and its roughly kinda sorta dystopian future.

But then it was written by two guys from Venezuela and they know what an actual evil government is like.

Originally posted by Metadragon:

But then it was written by two guys from Venezuela and they know what an actual evil government is like.

Haha, well said :D
I don't know country of origin of these developers though, but they really should try living in Russia or Venezuela or some other "dystopian place"
No time for SJW stuff here, fighting for survival.

Man why is everyone hating on this game. It's literally a piece of art

Originally posted by Beter Bope:

Man why is everyone hating on this game. It's literally a piece of art

anyway, you should get it. it is fantastic

Originally posted by Beter Bope:

Originally posted by Beter Bope:

Man why is everyone hating on this game. It's literally a piece of art

anyway, you should get it. it is fantastic

You just replied to yourself doofus

Originally posted by Beter Bope:

Man why is everyone hating on this game. It's literally a piece of art

Cuz they're too sensitive.
I haven't finished this one yet, i really prefer Gods Will be Watching because that one is challenging and i like challenging (in adequate degree) games, in this one you can't fail

Originally posted by Ryuu:

Originally posted by Beter Bope:

Man why is everyone hating on this game. It's literally a piece of art

Cuz they're too sensitive.
I haven't finished this one yet, i really prefer Gods Will be Watching because that one is challenging and i like challenging (in adequate degree) games, in this one you can't fail

On the Gods will be watching front. I went in blind and had no ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ idea what I was supposed to be doing or what the optimal outcome was supposed to be or anything. Thats a game I just "dont get" but maybe I will revisit it in the future.