Neko Can Dream
Oct. 23rd, 2023 07:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynlingNeko Can Dream
https://indietsushin.net/posts/2023-05-24-Neko-Can-Dream
Neko Can Dream expertly blends surreal, cutesy fantasy and harsh glimpses of reality to create something complicated and messy. These are not actually cut-and-dry Video Game Quests, and carrying them out does not make you a hero. I want more than anything for other people to play this game so that we can talk about what we all got from this. I have a feeling that everyone's interpretations will be very different. I love games that can make players feel uncomfortable with their actions, and ask what they would do differently and how.
This is an insightful and well-written review of (the first third of?) a Japanese retro Game Boy adventure game that just came out in English over the weekend. I paid the $2 to download it to my phone, and both the translation and the interface are good. I'm enjoying myself, but Neko Can Dream is much more substantial than many other games of this nature and seems like it might take several hours to play. My phone is poison to me right now, so I'll do my best to take it a bit at a time.
Anyway, here's a direct link to the dev's website: https://amaitorte.jp/apps/
https://indietsushin.net/posts/2023-05-24-Neko-Can-Dream
Neko Can Dream expertly blends surreal, cutesy fantasy and harsh glimpses of reality to create something complicated and messy. These are not actually cut-and-dry Video Game Quests, and carrying them out does not make you a hero. I want more than anything for other people to play this game so that we can talk about what we all got from this. I have a feeling that everyone's interpretations will be very different. I love games that can make players feel uncomfortable with their actions, and ask what they would do differently and how.
This is an insightful and well-written review of (the first third of?) a Japanese retro Game Boy adventure game that just came out in English over the weekend. I paid the $2 to download it to my phone, and both the translation and the interface are good. I'm enjoying myself, but Neko Can Dream is much more substantial than many other games of this nature and seems like it might take several hours to play. My phone is poison to me right now, so I'll do my best to take it a bit at a time.
Anyway, here's a direct link to the dev's website: https://amaitorte.jp/apps/
