Ah well, at least you gave it a shot. If we all enjoyed the same games it would be a bit boring right?
Now I must get to the last act of KR0 myself so I can actually finish the game!
Completely understandable Eleima. I wasn’t sure about the game for the first two and a half chapters. I liked the art style and enjoyed certain scenes but I, like you, was pressing on in the hopes of encountering the level of awesomeness others were experiencing. It was only when I went into the dive bar, and witnessed it’s transformation as June Bug sang, that it started completely working for me.
I wasn’t convinced by the inclusion of animals and birds in incongruous places early on. It felt like surrealism for surrealism’s sake but there is one creature, who holds down a quite technical job, in later chapters who I found a joy and the conversation that creature has with the protagonist of that chapter
a cat
was a joy.
I also enjoy open ended stories where you are encountering elements of a narrative but only ever getting a vague sense for what happened in the over arching story (something the game shares with the Dark Souls series.)
It felt like surrealism for surrealism’s sake but there is one creature, who holds down a quite technical job, in later chapters who I found a joy and the conversation that creature has with the protagonist of that chapter
Spoiler:a cat
was a joy.
Oh my gosh, that sounds kinda amazing!! Wish I'd experienced that.
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I was tempted to tell you about it for sure.
I polished off Acts one and two (as well as the short "intermissions"); is any of this going to eventually start fitting into place story-wise? I am really close to bouncing off this one hard. I thought it was being purposefully difficult to follow, but things would start making sense. But to play for a handful of hours with still only the thinnest thread of a story that is not making a lick of sense is a lot to ask. Thoughts?
One year on after finishing it, and I'm still not really sure of what I had played. I would say it's less about story, and more about the experience and an atmosphere that is still unique in games.
I didn't love it, but I was very intrigued and am glad I played it.
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