I was thinking of getting it because I like the aesthetic but then I saw a clip of it on digital foundry's YouTube channel running at 720p 15fps on a PS4. Then it crashed right afterwards. Also their "minimum recommended specs" for 1080p on PC are only actually good for 720p 30fps on low settings. It's good because I don't have the money anyway haha.
Chuds liked it again because a bunch of libs mad at the game by accusing it of making commodities out of trans people, rather than recognize that it's the setting of the game that has commodified trans people.
the game presents the in-game objectification as what it is: objectification for the sake of advertising shitty products. I never quite picked up that it's an endorsement or making excuses like that. somewhere around half of the in game advertising is sexual, the society in-game has a wider view of gender expression than now, so capital being indifferent as always has picked up on that and expanded its cultural offerings
maybe I'm giving the game too generous of a read, but that's what I was trying to get at
also it's very likely a column A column B situation where the game is engaged in the same objectification that it's presenting in a future dystopia
As an alternative may I recommend Ghostrunner? It's basically first-person cyberpunk Hotline Miami crossed with Mirrors Edge, has a dope aesthetic, and actually runs on computers made before next year
Teardown is kinda too weird to have any direct competition in the voxel-based demolition and parkour heist genre at the moment, but if you want more voxels to blow the shit out of Sector's Edge is a free to play multi-player fps where you can just fuck up the whole map and also build cover if you're a huge nerd I guess. I haven't had a chance to try it myself yet, but its free so, whatever, you play video games, its not like your time has value.
Hollow Knight is easier, if you want another beautiful yet depressing 2D metroidvania check out Blasphemous, if you want another game with charming characters and beautiful hand-drawn art that murders you over and over play Hades, if you want Hollow Knight but with gross people instead of cute bugs play any of the Dark Souls games, if you want a mix of all three of those play Dead Cells.
Those are the games that I'd say are most Hollow Knight adjacent either tonally or gameplay-wise, but we're just ass-deep in indie metroidvanias at this moment so I'm just gonna throw some of my favorites out here:
Axiom Verge the most NES Metroid game since NES Metroid, it even made the graphical glitches you'd get if the cart wasn't seated properly a plot point
Hyper Light Drifter like Link to the Past if that game was vaporwave as fuck and also actually hard and also really haunting and beautiful
Timespinner You got your Chrono Trigger in my Castlevania! You got your Castlevania in my Chrono Trigger!
Bloodstained: Symphony- I mean, Ritual of the Night legally distinct from any franchise owned by Konami Inc, and also made by one of the many talented people they shitcanned for being too awesome at making video games and not awesome enough at making slot machines (The Switch version runs a little worse than the others though, just FYI)
Carrion Did you ever watch The Thing and think to yourself, "man humans do be lookin' kinda tasty though"? Then boy do we have a game for you and a nice padded cell to play it in.
Oh! And it isn't out yet, but Radio The Universe may be one to keep an eye on, since it's finally coming out after I backed it on Kickstarter seven years ago.
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I was thinking of getting it because I like the aesthetic but then I saw a clip of it on digital foundry's YouTube channel running at 720p 15fps on a PS4. Then it crashed right afterwards. Also their "minimum recommended specs" for 1080p on PC are only actually good for 720p 30fps on low settings. It's good because I don't have the money anyway haha.
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Wait, I thought chuds were supposed to hate it because of that trans poster or whatever
Chuds liked it again because a bunch of libs mad at the game by accusing it of making commodities out of trans people, rather than recognize that it's the setting of the game that has commodified trans people.
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its ok the women in my game only wear tiny bikinis because magic
the game presents the in-game objectification as what it is: objectification for the sake of advertising shitty products. I never quite picked up that it's an endorsement or making excuses like that. somewhere around half of the in game advertising is sexual, the society in-game has a wider view of gender expression than now, so capital being indifferent as always has picked up on that and expanded its cultural offerings
maybe I'm giving the game too generous of a read, but that's what I was trying to get at
also it's very likely a column A column B situation where the game is engaged in the same objectification that it's presenting in a future dystopia
they literally used the objectification as real-world advertisement for their game
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As an alternative may I recommend Ghostrunner? It's basically first-person cyberpunk Hotline Miami crossed with Mirrors Edge, has a dope aesthetic, and actually runs on computers made before next year
yo thanks for recommending it, I'm gonna have a blast with this!
this game has a free demo on steam that's about 20 minutes long, and it's fucking rad, give it a look!
If I bring anything to the revolution, it's an encyclopedic knowledge of which video games are really, really cool
more please! Anything in the vein of Teardown or Hollow Knight?
Teardown is kinda too weird to have any direct competition in the voxel-based demolition and parkour heist genre at the moment, but if you want more voxels to blow the shit out of Sector's Edge is a free to play multi-player fps where you can just fuck up the whole map and also build cover if you're a huge nerd I guess. I haven't had a chance to try it myself yet, but its free so, whatever, you play video games, its not like your time has value.
Hollow Knight is easier, if you want another beautiful yet depressing 2D metroidvania check out Blasphemous, if you want another game with charming characters and beautiful hand-drawn art that murders you over and over play Hades, if you want Hollow Knight but with gross people instead of cute bugs play any of the Dark Souls games, if you want a mix of all three of those play Dead Cells.
Those are the games that I'd say are most Hollow Knight adjacent either tonally or gameplay-wise, but we're just ass-deep in indie metroidvanias at this moment so I'm just gonna throw some of my favorites out here:
Axiom Verge the most NES Metroid game since NES Metroid, it even made the graphical glitches you'd get if the cart wasn't seated properly a plot point
Hyper Light Drifter like Link to the Past if that game was vaporwave as fuck and also actually hard and also really haunting and beautiful
Timespinner You got your Chrono Trigger in my Castlevania! You got your Castlevania in my Chrono Trigger!
Bloodstained: Symphony- I mean, Ritual of the Night legally distinct from any franchise owned by Konami Inc, and also made by one of the many talented people they shitcanned for being too awesome at making video games and not awesome enough at making slot machines (The Switch version runs a little worse than the others though, just FYI)
Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight (I haven't played this one personally yet, but I've heard good things)
Carrion Did you ever watch The Thing and think to yourself, "man humans do be lookin' kinda tasty though"? Then boy do we have a game for you and a nice padded cell to play it in.
Oh! And it isn't out yet, but Radio The Universe may be one to keep an eye on, since it's finally coming out after I backed it on Kickstarter seven years ago.
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Everything I’ve ever seen suggests Japanese PC emulation is really hard. Is there an easy way to do this?
There's a PS1 version of the game you can try emulate
PS1 emulation is very easy to use now too, its damn nesr plug n play compared to a lot of other emulation
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