Beef

Be sure to check out [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/37670120/]"DaRevieweD"[/url], y'know THAT brutally honest yet beloved Steam curator that you haven't followed yet!? [h1]PROS;[/h1] + Gameplay really boils down to brief exploration segments where you examine objects of interest. However, a large and integral part of the experience amounts to a small variety of minigames which include your factory duties of slicing up... beef with a circular saw controlled via your mouse while avoiding the unwanted bits a la Tetris. Then troubleshooting said apparatus when it overheats with a console by lining up patterns in the right order and way. Before you're met with some otherworldly navigation whilst evading a nefarious being sensitive to noise! There's even a [spoiler]rhythm game[/spoiler] of sorts for the final encounter. Quite an array of ingredients to be finished off within less than an hour and all for $3 bucks!? A real steal of a treat if ya ask me~ + The visuals are stellar and just a PS1-esque feast...! It's a hark back to that era of look where it's sort of low-poly but not quite? I've always been bad at words! There's even a clever little nod, wink, and finger gun in terms of damning environments. A horror scene straight out of Silent Hill or something! Luckily, this title will fill you up on nostalgia pretty quick, and no further explanation is thus necessary. You'll know it when you see it~ + The soundscape is tender & juicy, oozing of a slow burn descent into purgatory or something crazy! Starts off fairly soft and chill then it ramps up into schizophrenic episodes before all hell is raised! I recall the last track being particularly rocking as well as awfully memorable to consume~ + Is it scary? I don't know... Is murder? Don't answer that. You be the judge. I have a better question for ya- are you ready to have your entire stance on eating meat reversed? After finishing this and licking the plate clean, I am now a honorary vegan cleared of acne and toxins, committed to correct the mistakes of my ancestors. Kidding! But there's a sliver or truth in there somewhere. It's up to you now, do it for me, FOR US~ [h1]CONS;[/h1] - There's a super prominent "out-of-body" experience after you're done interacting with the computer or any of the newfangled technology! Specifically, whenever text is done being present on screen, you'll find that you have lost control of your character and you have to left-click the screen to regain that agency. It's similar to when you juggle and between swap your open windows, sound is zoned out and time has frozen. It's creepy, sure but I don't think you should sell that feature of the product~ - I could see the twist of the story coming from miles away. Which isn't necessarily a terrible thing, that's how subversion of expectations tend to be orchestrated. Yes, I was slightly off but I got the main beats of the tragedy down. The other elephant in the room isn't exactly tied to content as it is more on delivery and pacing. Squeezing and stuffing so many reveals in mere minutes leaves no room for curious minds to digest...! - This is probably the biggest shocker of all. No fail states! Well, to be accurate there are, but they open the game up to riducule and anticlimactic moments. It is practically impossible to die unless you're really trying to do so, which is in itself pretty counterintuitive. When you do "die" though, you get a plain and nonchalant end screen and just get whisked to the main menu losing all progress, at least I think you do when you bomb at the first meat-slicing minigame! Not sure about the rest of the game though, yikes!! There's also one section involving the wandering baddie I mentioned where getting discovered by it has you bleed and collapse but you don't lose any progress.... In fact, I'm not even sure what really happened. It just spawns elsewhere? This makes the nemesis less of a threat and more of just a mild nuisance, if even that. Honestly, this element of the game is the least thought out. It ruins immersion and logic~ [h1]BUGS;[/h1] x On one playthrough, I could not interact with the screen despite it flashing endlessly indicating to me to do so. x The same text kept repeating and I couldn't advance. [h1]NITPICKS;[/h1] ~ Quite a few misspellings and other innocent typos. ~ Full keyboard support would benefit the minigames! [h1]VERDICT:[/h1] "Beef is at times like a half-baked product flawed across several criteria. But then other times it is properly cooked and incredibly well-seasoned. However, after all that's been said and done, the highly affordable price for the very proportional fill makes this a no-brainer must have~" [b]3 out of 5[/b] Cans Sincerely, Chen Ying