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I literally don't get what the fucking big deal about this game is.
I'm also not too impressed by its childish schlocky shock humor and implications of animal cruelty. Nope, animal cruelty is not fun or cute in a game, and glorifying it or acting like it's hilarious is just fucking gross.
It's not like there's an engaging story where you're role-playing a character, like say, Baldur's Gate 3.
No, it just encourages asshats to be terrible asshats.
Also, not only are the devs crypto shills, according to them, they don't actually know what the fuck they're doing and haven't used version control at all. I mean, props to them for making it this far without knowing what the fuck they're doing, but it doesn't inspire confidence about the future of the game if they're in the process of learning how to make it. Further, the whole bailing on their previous game before it was done (which now has MIXED overall reviews on Steam), I'm left to assume this is possibly a cash-grab.
I mean, this is supposedly an indie studio, but if they're so indie, where the fuck did all the money to make this shit come from, and I have a very hard time believing the assets are all made by one or two artists. It's a gargantuan effort, and it's pretty clear that while they've cribbed designs, they haven't straight copied them. They have just enough wiggle room to deny it.
Part of the reasons I have a hard time believing that about the art is because the art styles between Legend of Zelda (cough Craftopia) and Pokemon (cough Palworld) are wildly different, but somehow in both cases, they used deeply similar styles. It's just to clean of a quality rip-off to be from an actual "indie" company. I just don't buy it, something is fucking fishy, but I can't put my finger on it.
Finally, if the leaks from Sony's Insomniac Games are any indicator.... The entire video game industry is hanging on by mere threads and is about to fucking explode financially.
It's very interesting this rip-off company showed up right when the whole market is about to tumble. I wonder if they've got some serious money behind them hoping to swoop in and pick up the pieces of the broken industry? I don't know, I just know it all seems sketchy and I'm gonna wait quite a while before I consider giving that company any money.