I finished the demo for Unbeatable. Remember when I’ve complained about games for teens, or about having a band, or set in Japan and relying on a “foreign” aesthetic. What if all the characters talk too much? WELL THIS HAS ALL THAT.
But also I like it. It has a story to tell. It has music it wants you to listen to. It is so infatuated with FLCL and Number Girl and Pokemon TV Show and Bloodthirsty Butchers and The Pillows and the phrase “Be Gay Do Crimes.” Maybe for once one of these isn’t made with cynicism or blowhard dreams (OFK and Artful Escape). Maybe it just really loves all the things it has in it, and I’m just the exact person to recognize all the things in it.
I walked out of the demo just like Crow Country thinking “I want to play more of this.” Which is extremely high praise because everyone of those annoying things in it should have made me yell Fuck You at the TV. And I didn’t.
