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E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy

 

Still better than the last Amnesia.

 

I guess. They both have the quality of being mercifully short, at least.

 

Best DRM ever.

 

I just can't understand why Frictional gave away their best selling title and lifebuoy to developer who doesn't know anything about a proper gameplay. "Updated my journal", something weird going on. "Updated my journal", there is a monster, I must run. "Updated my journal", turn the wheel that's in front of you. Bleh.

 

Because they wanted money, and didn't have the resources to develop two games at a time, is my best guess.

 

If you hire a bunch of Ukrainians to make a game about Doritos consumable crap... well...

Sometimes it turns out to be a decent clone of American McGee's Alice.

 

"A little girl was raped. Arrest those women."

"Sir, I'm pretty sure the culprits had to be males beca-"

"...hopw roewur ne..."

"Y-y-y...YES SIR! At once!"

 

Yoooweee, ancient Mayan temples and shit



Complete with commie colonels getting cooked by conquistador corpses!



One ugly-ass dessicated mummy larper



I ain't drinkin' with them soviets again



Give me back muh guns, zombie rapists!

 

They actually really like thechineseroom, and imho Dan Pinchbeck is in some cases a quite nice writer, so maybe it seemed worth the risk. If I remember rightly (this is explained in one of Frictional's blog posts, I think), thechineseroom was the party that introduced the idea of an Amnesia spinoff, or if that's not the case, then both developers started talking about it with each other at roughly the same time.

Frictional had previously done a blog post that attributed some amount of game design competency to Korsakovia (bahah), and Thomas Grip at one point tried to reason with me that listening to and interpreting the narration in Dear Esther could be considered gameplay, so before Pigs was announced I had figured Frictional and TCR were buddies in some capacity.

I think they were hit by the allure of "experimental," since it's a word that everybody uses to describe TCR's shit, and horror is all about confronting the unfamiliar. However, with TCR, "experimental" means stripping a product of anything that isn't basic and then presenting it funny. With Korsakovia, I suppose they wanted to strip out fun to make something that felt hectic and desperate, when it was really just annoying. With Dear Esther, they took a step backward in storytelling by making the story even less interactive than in most games. With Pigs, they ended up making the same fucking game as Amnesia with the same systems and plot, but without any of the substance that made Amnesia interesting.

 

I love how you play the Gaians and have Boreholes and forests everywhere.

 

Hey Prosper's AI, glad to see you in one piece!

 

I suppose going pure fungus would be the proper gaian way but that's way too weak for a long time and then in the end gets too strong iirc ( I think I'll try it later on).

 

Finished. Was fun, but too linear. Great atmosphere.

 

"Analrider"?

 

Fits the screenshot perfectly.

 

TripJack

 

What game is this? The Skittles game?

 

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