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Here we are, the final journey of 2024. This is the last advent calendar entry for PC game website Rock Paper Shotgun. Days Elapsed: 24. Authors Hired: 8.
I hope this hurts.
It’s a short and unsettling sci-fi horror game. Mouth wash.
Brandy: At the mouth-watering start, click the buttons in the spacecraft cockpit and you’ll be deliberately steered on a catastrophic collision course. Everything that happens to the five crew members on this long-distance freighter is your fault. It’s a short game, just 2-3 hours of me walking through the corridors of the spaceship and talking to the various lucky survivors. A troubled medical officer, a disaffected engineer, a meek intern. The food is running out and everyone is constantly bickering. None of this ends well.
But at least there’s a truckload full of mouthwash! The hilarious trailer that accompanies the game ultimately adds plenty of dark humor to a sad cosmic tale about satisfaction, entitlement, and resentment. Some of the crew get drunk on the alcohol-rich menthol mouthwash, while others simply try to accept the horrific events that have transpired. And, as it turns out, some events happened before the ship was destroyed.
This is one clever trick of the game. It flips back and forth in time, pre-crash and post-crash, detailing the crew’s relationships and their lives. Before the disaster, the captain (your character) seems to be under pressure, but in the end he is optimistic. It is difficult to know why he would deliberately sink the ship. After the crash, you play as co-pilot Jimmy, who must now keep his crew alive.
This includes feeding the injured and incapacitated captain his painkillers. Because, ah, the captain was in the cockpit during the impact and now he lost all his legs. He is burned beyond recognition and covered in bandages – his monocular face is a striking visual of the entire play. If there’s one thing that constantly bothers me about Tulpar’s life (and it’s not just one thing), it’s the wailing and wailing of the centurion as he lies there unable to even speak.
I don’t want to spoil the story any further. I have already done that Great post about the characters. But if you value good stories and dialogue in games (and don’t mind a few traditional psychological horror game sequences of running from your own shameless monster), then you should give up your holiday cheer a bit. anxious fear. Look, I understand, don’t sweat it. Go ahead, play the game and don’t worry about turkey or pudding or family or friends. I don’t care about all that.
I will do it.
Ed. I like the idea that there is only one guarantee in this horror story: all the passengers have a little breath. Every breath? Like the local Subway smell, if Subway Southwest replaced their Chipotle chain with Colgate, and replaced their sweet Italian bread with some foot-long synthetic fibers.
Nick: Turns out, the right one Silent Hill 2 The remake was only the second for Silent Hill 2 Torchbearer this year. That’s all I can say!
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