Look all I'm saying given the context of this game's story you can easily twist it to be one of those games gamers claim to be <intentionally bad> in the same vein as stuff like Drakengard, Spec Ops: The Line, Persona 3, Shadow of the Colossus, most Suda games, the list goes on and on. I'd even argue Omikron has FAR more justification as an <intentionally bad> game than basically every other "intentionally bad" game. For those unaware, in the story of Omikron, the game "Omikron" was created by Astaroth, the antagonist of Omikron. His main goal was to suck the souls out of gamers using Omikron: The Video Game as the method to steal them. With this goal in mind, why would Astaroth create a good game? It makes so much more sense that Astaroth would create a game so dogshit, so comedically unplayable and obtuse to the point that most gamers wouldn't even come close to beating him and seeing the ending (especially in a time where guides weren't prominent, tho even with a guide this sucks ass to complete). There's even a line later on by blue David Bowie that basically says you're the first person to actually make it this far, which only gives more weight to the "this is intentionally bad" claim.
"But Airi why did you give it a 1/10 if you're claiming it's supposed to be bad and serves that purpose extremely well."
To answer that question I have two responses. The first is that David Cage obviously isn't clever enough to do this, especially when looking at all of his other games. It's even more clear when you realize that every game he made after this puts you on rails with the only actual gameplay being QTEs w/ the additional point & clicking, which is really funny when you think about it. Bro made the worst gameplay ever and decided to just make QTE story games after that god bless David Cage.
The second reason is that I think the excuse of "it's actually bad on purpose" is fucking stupid and rarely applies to games people are talking about. It's often used as a coping mechanism for gamers to deal with gameplay that sucks balls in stories they like or different/experimental gameplay used to compliment the story. Basically, I hate gamers, but most importantly I fucking HATE David Cage.
(Ftr I'd consider this easily the worst game I've ever played with nothing else even coming close)
(U also can't be mad at this review bc it's actually bad on purpose sorry)
"But Airi why did you give it a 1/10 if you're claiming it's supposed to be bad and serves that purpose extremely well."
To answer that question I have two responses. The first is that David Cage obviously isn't clever enough to do this, especially when looking at all of his other games. It's even more clear when you realize that every game he made after this puts you on rails with the only actual gameplay being QTEs w/ the additional point & clicking, which is really funny when you think about it. Bro made the worst gameplay ever and decided to just make QTE story games after that god bless David Cage.
The second reason is that I think the excuse of "it's actually bad on purpose" is fucking stupid and rarely applies to games people are talking about. It's often used as a coping mechanism for gamers to deal with gameplay that sucks balls in stories they like or different/experimental gameplay used to compliment the story. Basically, I hate gamers, but most importantly I fucking HATE David Cage.
(Ftr I'd consider this easily the worst game I've ever played with nothing else even coming close)
(U also can't be mad at this review bc it's actually bad on purpose sorry)
Katsono
1 month ago