Mouthwashing

(NO SPOILER AHEAD) THIS IS A NEUTRAL REVIEW - Mouthwash is walking sim with 'rubber reality' elements (jacob's ladder, much of Lynch filmography) + a delivery straight out 'memento'. Sound like a dream to me. BUT: a) a few things that don't feel right: three sequences are essentially puzzles and autosolve after 3 tries but take you away from the immersion of what is meant purely narrative. b) a LOT is implied in the game, but without voice acting, it's REALLY hard to figure out what's what - especially given the 'rubber reality' premise of the game. c) honestly after 2hours everything is said and done (unless you never watch TV before) and the sequences start to feel longuish. I'm not going to thumb this down over it though, because the effort is good - and i think their next game will solve all this.

R E S P O N S A B I L I T Y

This is not a fun game. This is not meant to be a fun game. This is a short, sharp, deeply upsetting descent into denial, guilt, and the horrifying things people talk themselves into when survival is on the line, delivered with some of the most unsettling visual direction I've seen in years. This is a game about a doomed cargo ship, a doomed crew, and a captain making increasingly catastrophic decisions in a nonlinear timeline that jumps around specifically to maximize the amount of dread I feel at any given moment. I spent the first hour thinking I understood what kind of story I was in. I did not. I had to watch a Youtube breakdown to get all the mules in a row. That is the point, and it is deeply effective, and I resent how effective it is.

ну да, больновато было

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