Retrograding
Happy Cat Games
I… did not understand this game in the slightest. I apparently didn’t understand what was going on in the beginning, because I thought I was supposed to pick one of two people to go kill, and then I picked one, and went to go… work with her? And the entirety of working with her was ‘pick a random bit of trash to keep with you from your mission’. I suppose even that is kind of spoilery, so I should probably spoiler-shroud the rest of my thoughts (such as they are)…
So, you alternate between picking one of three random items and talking to a voice in your head in the mirror at night (though you get no say in how that goes). Then I somehow fell in love with the person I was working with? I think? And the power dynamic was very much ‘she is amazing and powerful, while you are a peon beneath notice’. And then in the last scene, somehow the tables turn? And you say something about how wonderful burning trash is, only this statement is delivered with the panache of a monologuing supervillain.
I dunno, man. It was kind of pretty and the music was nice.
Did the author have anything to say? Probably, but to someone who was not me.
Did I have anything to do? Be baffled.