Frogsong

Aug. 17th, 2024 08:16 am
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Frogsong is a Zelda-lite style adventure game that's the opposite of Deepwell: the graphics are lovely, but the writing is painful. I wouldn't mind this so much if the gameplay were engaging, but it's thoroughly mediocre. Also, you have to do a lot of reading at the beginning of the game, and it's not fun.

When I say "not fun," what I mean is that this game seems to have been written by someone who watched Steven Universe and was like, "I want to make something like this, but without any sort of ambiguity, because suggesting that two people can look at a situation differently is gaslighting and that's bad." The writing feels uncomfortably immature. It leaps right over "wholesome" and lands squarely in the territory of "self-righteous and preachy." I could go deeper into how this sort of mentality arises from the purity culture of contemporary online queer spaces, but I'd prefer not to engage with it at all. We only have so many hours on this earth etc.

Idk, if cartoons for children are too problematic for you, maybe you might enjoy Frogsong. It actually seems like a decent game, but it's truly and sincerely not for me.
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