The 12 fps choppy psuedo-2D jittery bullshit seems to be the next style that troons are going to be circlejerking to death.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=aQoEd5rnxiQ
I've even seen it paired with the shitty low poly sloppily textured models too. This style is so easy to do wrong and when it's done incorrectly (99% of the time) it looks like absolute dogshit.
Okay, I'm gonna sperg about this propaganda piece in the most vengeful and pseudointellectual way possible.
I feel like for a while, there's been this gayop revolving around finding out how little gameplay one can put into a video game and still get away with it. Combined with the ongoing trend of historical revisionism ("the past is the present"), Mixtape is the absolute apex of that gayop. The ultimate gaslighter, too.
It innovates on jack and shit: it's a quirky hipster coming-of-age story where there's no longer pesky decisions to worry about - and
the user input doesn't matter anymore, either. Sings of a "game" that's free on YouTube - and all those tropes have been tried by both Dontnod and David Cage in equal capacity.
The writing is so
fundamentally awful the game makes me think of the 2010's more than it does its' intended period, the 90's (especially with that one promo shot with a blank CD-R disc - homebrewed CD's wouldn't be a thing until... mid-2000's, I wanna say), without me even going deep into the plot. Which I feel like I really don't want to. Complaining about this game feels more productive than powering through all of it on YouTube, it's that bad. The premise of the three profaggonists suddenly turning adult come midnight like the carriage from Cinderella already sounds repulsively juvenile to me, too.
And the Into the Spiderverse 2 influence is immediately obvious, especially since both have angry cop dads that you're supposed to boo.
And again, the amount of gaslighting is so severe you can burn a small country in the Middle East just by striking a match. 10/10's across the board, from LITERALLY ANY NEWS PROPAGANDA OUTLET. Shiteaters on Reddit, Twitter and in YouTube comments repeating how much of a masterpiece this game really is, and how it really brings them back to the nineties (which, as an early millenial, makes me wanna bring them back to non-existance). Worse yet, even dramasturbators like EndymionTV who condemn Mixtape's themes, still call it a video game. Endy even downright says that "I don't think it's a bad game, we shouldn't be boycotting it".
Like, nigga fucking bitch.
Mixtape's release, I feel like, is the moment video games as a medium have properly died. Raped to death after years of anal abuse, more specifically. The gayop has finally got its' push through, and now as little as a 5-hour cutscene with optional interactivity is called by everyone but a few fringe noticers a "video game". What's next? How far can we stretch it, really?
I can lug over a CRT TV, turn it on, have it show The Price is Right - and call it a video game.
I can piss in the corner of my neighbour's place (without his permission), shoot a ten-second clip of the pissstain, upload it to a website where you can toggle between video filters on every mouse click - and call it a video game.
I can bring over a hunting rifle to Minneapolis, fatally wound five ICE agents, have it all shot on my phone, upload it on TikTok - and call it a video game, not because it's "a video you can interact with", not because "you clicked on a thing and it makes you feel things", but because "fuck you home nigger, it's a video game 'cause I've said so!"
Now you know why everyone involved in the creation and rampant glazing of this abomination deserves to be genocided. As soon as humanly possible, too. No, not as a joke.
ADDENDUM: No,
the "user input doesn't matter anymore" wasn't a joke, either.