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this game is a mess
i have no idea why this is a pokemon game when it's clearly some kind of silent hill bullshit. i mean, at least they revealed their cards early this is all le heccin dream and all the villains are the piece of shit mc's own thoughts, but that just means i care about anything that happens in this game even less. why do i even want to see the mc get better? i barely even know them other than the fact they're really greedy, really apathetic and a coward. hell i barely know any character in this game.
to say nothing of the actual gameplay itself, which is horrid. i think every single section of this game had something i either intensely disliked or was at least extremely annoyed by. that is IMPRESSIVE, for a demo that lasts maybe 5-6 hours. it wasn't as overall as literally unplayable like rosen was, but it was still an extreme slog. the music choices are bad, it's like dragon's den from GSC but it's 80% of the soundtrack. the gen 2 stylization is pointless, i mean cool, but whatever. there's barely any side content and the stuff there is is both annoying and shit to do.
the only thing i can give this game credit for, is that at the very least it wasn't boring like some of the other gamejam games i did, but it's not really interesting even with the whole 'yeah dream vices' premise, and i would've dropped it quickly if i hadn't known it was a quick demo. that, and the regionals are pretty good, at least the designs.
and i will never understand how the tranny expo judges determined this was THE game, more than the PMD game, more than berserk, more than....okay, i guess that's kind of it kek. but good lord. this demo doesn't have any kind of feeling of a satisfying narrative completion, it's not a short game that can be judged quickly like tower of ashes, nothing, it's just absolutely baffling. i couldn't even find why people liked covenant in the eevee expo 'cord.
no hope for this game and rosen. if i had to give a number, 2/10
