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Capsule II — The 11th Sandman

on ifcomp-2015

This article is spoiler-free.

Author: PaperBlurt. Play online

Just like emptying your cache folder, your body empties your bowels.

Oh, great. Just my luck I get to start another game as peeing somebody. Can you believe I’m not a toilet fan?

The oxygen levels are super amped, dude!

I agree with my character: Fucking engineers. But also in the outside world I feel slightly unnerved by this game.

Capsule 2 is the second in the series, so the game world and the engine are solid enough. I glanced at the first one and I can say it has less.. well, space oddity.

HOBBIES: SHAKING HIS FIST AT YOUNG PEOPLE

I’m not sure if this game is serious or not. I’m not sure if the protagonist is serious or not. It seems like she or he is the sane person and the environment isn’t. And then the environment becomes serious and the protagonist is… still serious. And the interface is still silly.

This is the first time you’ve actually seen the Makida’s intestines.

Two and a half years time and not a single step inside. Why?

And then the silly and the serious give birth to the weird and the rest is facing a ban in Russia as a most peculiar way of life propaganda.

I’m not impressed with the technical side. I want to click “DONE” word as soon as I see it, not after it finally finishes to fade in. I kept bumping into a bug where the game restarts on the first console passage. The timed passage jumps (GASP) came sooner than I read them just because I got distracted. Oh, and I played the game on Firefox just because I like it and go to hell with your browser war.

It feels weird when single link serves both as your input and the console output. It becomes worse later in game when I can’t tell who’s talking to whom just because THEY BOTH USE SINGLE RED LINE I’m supposed to click.

On the story side, I can’t tell what it was about but it certainly wasn’t guided by me. The protagonist admits he’s dumb and then she meets someone even dumber. Is living in a small community worse than living alone? Was that a pity scale for me? Is this really worth a sequel?

I feel like it was me who got crazy. Definitely not in a good way.