oct 14

RPG Maker strikes again! "oct 14" is one of hundreds of low effort retro-pixel RPG Maker asset/construction kit flips spamming the Steam catalog, made with the RPG Maker video game construction kit... in their own words, "Our easy to use tools are simple enough for a child." Like all RPG Maker "games", this is essentially a bunch of low quality/canned assets from RPG Maker coupled with a cringeworthy high school anime club fan fiction. Notably, the "developer" couldn't work out how to use RPG Maker to make a JRPG (the only thing it can do, and it's terrible at it). Instead, we have a garbage asset flipped RPG Maker "adventure" game/visual novel about the authors favourite subject, his 15 year old imaginary high school girlfriend. Incredibly cringey, creepy stuff... pretty sure this RPG Maker asset flip got the "author" on a few watchlists. The story centers on the author's imaginary 15-year-old girlfriend named Chichi Pyonma on October 14, 2002, in the small town of Silver Bay, MN. You'll experience a single, predetermined ending. Gameplay involves interacting with the environment, reading flavor text, and using a working MP3 player. The game is explicitly described as "a short experience" and "not for the faint of heart". At least that's how the developer tries to describe this mess. Really, this is a journey into cringe. As with all RPG Maker games, the poor quality engine displays badly in fullscreen and doesn't have full HD support or any graphics tweaking options, making this unacceptable for any dedicated modern PC gamer. The point can be made that the intention of RPG Maker is to make demos and small games to pass around friends, and shouldn't be used for "professional" game development. Like most RPG Maker shovelware and asset flips, the game features extremely low quality copy + pasted 2D retro pixel art, looks awful, and has even worse gameplay. RPG Maker is an absolutely terrible construction kit, and never results in games of any reasonable quality or value to gamers. So, it's hard to describe this as a game, the focus of the product is more like that of an e-book/visual novel, there's only minor, shallow and uninteresting gameplay elements. The crux of this is to push some very low quality, badly done fan-fiction tier writing, where we see once more a developer fail to understand the importance of "Show, don't tell", and for whatever reason, weren't able to convey their narrative through gameplay, giving us endless lines of badly written e-book text instead. My gaming rig is not a kindle. Despite having no up-front cost, this failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 3 concurrent players (possibly law enforcement)... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. Bearing in mind that free games don't add +1 to your game collector count, should you bother adding this to your library and downloading it? Not this time. This isn't worth downloading. While this won't cost you any money, you get what you pay for, and sometimes, even when the game is free, it's still not enough.

randomly found this one while browsing visual novels a few weeks back and the arg associated with it pretty much took over my life from that point forward. play the game, read the blog, listen to the album. everything is so grotesquely intertwined and it feels like everything is hiding something. seriously one of the best experiences ive had with a game, this may only be a seven minute cutscene but its part of something far larger.

you need to be outside this game to experience the whole story... trust me it will be worth it

又是什么女同青春伤痛小故事吗…？ 展示图片里Bev视角的站在屋子里的那张我在游戏流程中没见到，不知是诈骗还是存在隐藏内容。 不说好也不能说坏，就是一款很符合预期的心理恐怖小游戏，毕竟体量就在这嘛。 甚至都很难说玩完之后的具体想法，它就是那种给你讲完整个故事问你感受，然后你只能楞半天然后犹犹豫豫地说一句：“还行吧…？”的游戏。 说实话我很少选游戏之前还要看大段的关于游戏介绍的，尤其是这种短篇免费游戏，基本是直接下了就玩。反正也没因此错过过什么内容，但这游戏竟然还在介绍里建议你在游玩之前先去看作者的博客，以便对游戏内容有更多的了解。…这种一般不都是做成DLC吗？那博客网站开的慢极了，我游戏本体都打完了这网站还没加载完，属实败好感。不过虽然如此，博客上的内容也更倾向是对具体事件的补充，本体的故事内容讲的够清晰了，没有如作者所说的要先看博客的必要。

driving in my truck! right after a beer. hey that bump- ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ IT'S A CHILD.

Very worthwhile and definitely not worth spoiling, my only advice is to get the full experience through the blog and visual album on youtube (which can be accessed via the blog)

this is a real piece of culture and art. highly recommended