The Coffin of Andy and Leyley and Lazy Shock Content

This video was voted on by backers and was originally going to be a deep dive into four games that use

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value, haunting, and audacity as their main selling point; However, during the writing of this script, before I committed to recording footage of the intended games, I came across three of them that were already being discussed in a Noah J video several years ago and the idea of ​​doing the same seemed extremely intimidating, especially since I already have a problem absorbing analysis and jokes from other creators. So many people, so many apologies, that video basically covers everything I intended to say about those three anyway, but much better, so I narrowed the scope to just the last of the four and reduced the sections of the other three to smaller parts. small and I redid them.

All in the same style as a previous video I made. This is not what I intended to do on this project and is very different from how I sold it to backers. But I hope you like it anyway. Attention, this video talks. about some pretty heavy and awkward stuff, so viewer discretion is advised In 1997, the developer behind Scissors released a postcard of a bloody twin-stick shooter about a guy who goes absolutely crazy believing he has to purge to the society of degeneration and ends with him having been hallucinating the entire time. was a game created specifically to stoke controversy and capitalize on it by jumping and waving to get attention, look at me, look at me, look at me and it worked, sold extremely well and did exactly what it was supposed to do 6 years later, the developer released a sequel in which 90% of the game was spent complaining about the fact that his deliberately controversial game had actually been controversial, seething with anger and bitterness over the fact that a game he made to make people angry actually made people angry. to the people what had happened first.

It has been a marketing masterstroke. Brilliance finally turned on Vince Desiderio when he made the critical mistake of revealing what a sullen, hate-filled misanthrope he really was. Anyway, it's been 20 years and absolutely nothing has changed. Shock value has always been the lowest and The laziest form of art that

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s people is easy to come out and shout a racial slur at the top of your lungs and congratulations, you've shocked people, you've offended their delicate sensory abilities and you've proven that you are a brave and bold artistic genius for about 5 minutes before. You notice that people don't gasp with horror of Gog they look at you with dispassionate contempt no one gasps no one shouts maybe someone says you're ignorant and then records you and puts you on Tik Tok later but you didn't understand the reaction you were expecting now when you realize that you have embarrassed in public and you have completely and absolutely told yourself that you ran to Twitter to start pounding your keyboard about how the woke mob is not ready for your Noble addition to the art of public humiliation and how you were canceled and silenced by a dispassionate and ridiculous , for the sake of being inclusive, replace the woke mob with your favorite snarling coping word.

The concept of using shock humor as a cheap and

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shortcut to making a real salian point through comedy has been around practically since the invention. of humor, since the first court jester called the first king a cotton-headed Muggin ninja and was hanged by a jibit for his lack of respect today, it is the chosen occupation of a socially isolated 14-year-old boy. boys trying to avoid their inevitable familicide by making Mom attracted to them. It's been a viable formula for a

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artist for a long time. They take the acceptable UN standards of the current decade, challenge them, and enjoy all the attention like the needy teenager they are, but that's it. a game of diminishing returns because the more the boundaries of acceptable behavior are pushed, the more people stop being surprised.

Pushing the boundaries of taboo only works as long as people still have the gag reflex; once they lose it, they stop fuming and start rolling. his eyes and that's when you have to start complaining about the awakened mind virus like the smart guy you are, this was what affected shock violence games like postcard and hate. The first postcard was a really shocking video game, a game where you just kill innocent people. a time before BioWare had converted half of its gaming philosophy to a time before murderous wandering became a popular way to play D and D, the first snail mail is actually an interesting novelty, playing as a Psychopathic killer on a rampage until the end of that Rampage. whether it's at a funeral or in elementary school, depending on the version where it turns out that they are in solitary confinement and were hallucinating the whole time, the whole game is in bad taste from the beginning, but if you stick with it, you will end up being nice.

Surprised, I wouldn't call it a good game, but the trick at the end was certainly clever. Unfortunately, the aftermath after this point leads to the laziest kind of shock comedy imaginable and the entire game feels like a bitter blow to everyone who ever watched it. the Creator is fun told through the vector of a bad South Park episode, sorry that was redundant. I meant told through the vector of a South Park episode, any little value from the first game, at least from an anthropological point of view, is angry that it's over. Over the next 18 years, the developer would become increasingly bitter about their lack of success compared to their peers at the time and continually blame everything but themselves.

Running With Scissors as a developer did nothing but stagnate while its peers surged ahead. Video games are shocking in the 9s, a violent video game with added racism and misogyny is simply regrettable. Leave a shock chalk alone for a few minutes and they'll immediately reveal that their shock material isn't a joke or art, they mean it. word of this and they are very angry because people keep giving them funny looks and that is the doomed end of shock value as a concept. Now we've gotten to the point where Netflix is ​​making sexy, thirst-quenching drama shows about cannibalistic serial killers and people are doing it.

Tik Tok videos about how unfazed they were and how they wish it had more Gore so they could show how big they are. There really is no other place for a Shameless jock with no talent and even less scruples to do well there. is a place you could go, you should go to your house in greenbow alabama last month the internet positively exploded over

andy

and lelay's

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a visual novel that boasts of the fact that it's breaking six different taboos at once and for those of you who had to check your watches to make sure you haven't gone back in time about 20 years.

I assure you that you are still in the present. This game was fast-paced and doesn't give those overwhelmingly positive ratings for nothing. or maybe it is because I checked the ratings and they were all like sexy mother Ted Kazinsky was right huh that's the unibomber for those of you who don't know make decisions that change the course of history be it like sex, not sexual homicide, my brother gave it to me. I received this product for free, okay, I won't lie, that made me laugh, mentally disturbed, envious, aggressive, manipulative, wife material. God forbid women have all the fun.

Pros, a compelling story about two extremely twisted and terribly relatable people, sister, wife, every positive review was one joking or complaining on Twitter and I saw that maybe one person claimed that the game had some artistic merit, so for the first time in The year someone played shock jock grift and won because for every four people that go, can you believe this? who goes, it can be fun, but if you are familiar with this scam, you already know that once you are there, there will really be nothing of merit. Propaganda says brother and sister practice cannibalism after witnessing a failed satanic ritual.

The game is immediately given away to two brothers violating the worst taboo on the planet, yes, I'm sure they'll leave the second and third worst completely, where they are definitely sure of that, without a doubt, the thing is that it will continue to be crushed. or sleeve bag until someone with critical thinking skills and no gag reflex puts on the rubber gloves and sifts through the mud. I'll Do It, Gimme, we open with discordant music as we watch a boy being bullied by his younger sister into doing something. It is not mentioned while the word suffer or continues to echo in the background, but then the music cuts off and it turns out that everything was just a dream of this girl who seems to know those mergers of Democratic and Republican senators where the faces of each representative were. compiled together into a deeply strange hybrid, well, Ashley looks like that, but for every quirky teenager who isn't like other girls as much as you love the feeling of feeling sorry for yourself, it's time for a little interlude titled find nutrients so as not to die.

She looks around a particularly gloomy apartment looking for food, as it's apparently been some time since this girl last ate. Your parents have a strange observation in this bed. His brother is sleeping in Shar's room and Shar in a room at that age. What's wrong with these two? Not really. I turn my back, I don't respond, Andrew is asleep, you can't eat him, but I can tell by the look on his face that she really wants to. It turns out that they are locked inside and have been locked inside for months with a guard standing guard. outside and I decidedly do not bring them food.

I know my right. I demand a lawyer and despite being in an extremely serious situation, Ashley is not taking things seriously, at least not as seriously as her brother is now, let's guess what Ashley's problem is. Is it an antisocial personality disorder? b h induced delirium o C she is a goth girl in a game made by a lesbian we will have a prize at the end for whoever guesses correctly after hearing a noise coming from the neighbor the two sneak across the balcony to find their neighbor participating in a ritual satanist to summon a demon, that is capricious.

My neighbors just scream and make more holes in the wall for the mice to enter. After playing Voyer, the two sit and watch TV and then go to bed with Ashley. has a flashback to how they were locked in the apartment in the first place, it turns out that there was contaminated water throughout the city and that she was quarantined while her parents left to stay in a hotel, but it turns out that the workers watching them were not there. I didn't actually bring them food, but her mom doesn't believe Ashley when she says that and then stammers an apology to say goodbye, oh wow.

I wonder why this girl is so messed up. Ashley spends the next morning cleaning the laundry when Andrew wakes up and complains that he's a waste of energy, you're a waste of energy, Ashley is the brains of this operation, as you can see he eventually passes out from exhaustion and wakes up. with his head in Andrew's lap as they watch the news about how the supply shortages are being handled. take care while everyone is quarantined and that anyone who is worried about their loved ones and tries to help will be shot immediately. You just know the creator of this had some opinions on mask mandates and inbreeding later that night.

Andrew answers the phone to someone who is being very annoying to him and Ashley turns out that she was his girlfriend, well, ex-girlfriend, now Ashley is delighted to know that Andrew and whoever it was are no longer seeing each other and it is heavily implied that Ashley is the reason why they broke up the next morning, someone understands. They took her away in an ambulance and Ashley wonders if they would bring them food if she got pregnant, how could you get pregnant here? Well, we have that lovely guy next door. Over my dead body. I feel very uncomfortable with the energy we have.

I created in the studio today, the next day, after having a lovely chat with the SS officer outside, they just stood there and talked about the fact that no one came to check on them while they slowly starve themselves to death. Andrew mentions that he wants to jump off the balcony. Ashley insists on joining him but thinks he's sweet but too romantic. They argue about the semantics of the word romantic until his neighbor gets tired of hearing this and starts playing his music loudly to drown them out thanks to Satan after hearing a scream. They go to the next house and he sees that he managed to summon his demon, he asks the demon to help him get out, to which the demon says that he then dies and kills him, the two control him and Ashley begins to have ideas and the two argue about the ethics and legality of violating one. of the most terrifying taboos in society and eating human flesh, this is not the last time they will have a conversation like this looking for something to butcher the body Ashley finds a wallet with $666 inside this guy commits to the offer.

I respect that they butcher and transport the body Ashley cooks an arm, nohe has trouble eating it, but Andrew almost throws it up, then they argue about how Ashley did this with love and Andrew tells him to stop nagging and I know there's supposed to be a joke here about them fighting like an old man. married couple, but the difference between that and normal fights between siblings is like the difference between the night and that same night. I imagine going in blind would make this whole thing raise an eyebrow, but I feel like just reading the summary already reveals what a great joke this is.

The plot of the game, if that doesn't get to the flashback where Ashley proves to be extremely possessive of her brother when one of her school friends expresses that she has a crush on him, I will definitely make her think twice before stealing from him. other. The woman Ashley hatches a plan to lock her friend in a box overnight, proving that she is a psycho little baby and practically forcing Andrew to agree to this twisted plan. I have this strange left feeling, it's pretty clear from the contextual clues. parents are not exactly present and it seems that Andrew has been left with the job of taking care of his sister and anyone who agrees with behavioral psychology will immediately see where that is going, the fact that all it takes is for his friend is in love with her brother.

Going from friend to murder victim it's clear that something is very wrong with this girl, even as they agree to torture this poor child. Ashley is still giving Andrew Shifty a look, demanding to know if she thinks his victim is pretty. I've heard some people suggest that Ashley has Antisocial Personality Disorder, but the truth is, she wouldn't allow herself to diagnose such young children with a personality disorder in the first place. Frankly, personality disorders are so stigmatized that the idea of ​​being able to diagnose a fictional character with one is reckless. I've seen people in an armchair. diagnosing Youtubers with personality disorders, which is so unethical that some people have been sued for defamation for it, plus Ashley just doesn't have enough dimensions to her character for that in the first place, they finally lock this girl in the box and the two argue about This is before Ashley turns on the water plant for Andrew to help her kill her friend and this scene is interesting because it sets you up to avoid looking deeper into Ashley's character.

She turns on the water plant pretty quickly to get what she wants. playing with her own loneliness and then immediately abandoning the ghost when she wins whenever Ashley shows any genuine emotion other than sadism it's usually just more manipulation it's like the author is deliberately setting you up to avoid seeing the depth of the character From Ashley, she wakes up in the middle of the night with Andrew and is confused by the fact that they ate human flesh and being completely disgusted by how casual Ashley is about all of this. Andrew is devastated about destroying a body and how Grizzly he was, But Ashley is acting like she just went down the road looking for nutmeg and cocoa powder.

I love you Andy, shove that Andy crap up your ass, oh my god. I don't love you that much. It's a horrible lie. The next morning, Ashley finds Andrew looking for how to summon demons thinking the best. The way out of this apartment tomb is to delve into the dark powers of the underworld as you do so while preparing the ritual. The warden arrives worried about the silence. They rush to clean up the mess, but the warden finds out. Ashley hides in the closet and then Andrew kills him. Hey PA, and we probably get Ashley's first real emotion in the entire game.

Andrew wants Ashley to keep quiet about everything once they escape, but Ashley reacts extremely violently to the idea of ​​Andrew telling her. she can do anything and here's the thing, despite all the stuff in this game I largely remained unchallenged but there's actually an element to the play here that I really dislike and it's more about the fact that everything It is played as a joke. Let's get into this last, but suffice it to say that the Creator's attempts to impact are extremely weak. Upon leaving, we find that everyone's doors are closed with notes taped to their doors that look suspiciously like blood types.

Below we found a woman who apparently lived like a queen. with free food and an endless supply of video games in stark contrast to everyone else who was slowly starving Ashley wonders why she is getting such special treatment and why they have to starve and Andrew suggests that maybe Ashley just doesn't. be pretty enough to bribe the Guardians. he thinks she's pretty, he needs to sort out his priorities, they make plans to use this woman as a human sacrifice to the demon to get rid of the second guardian downstairs, but Ashley is stuck on the idea that Andrew doesn't think she's pretty when he comes back.

Upstairs, they draw new runes in the dead guardian's blood, which sounds like RPG Maker's default wind effect, then they go downstairs and threaten the woman from before to lure the guardian to the ritual site. Ashley goes back upstairs and offers the guardian's soul to the demon. who refers to her as the human with the tar-colored soul and gives her a dream catcher that will allow Ashley to have a dream about the future by taking the warden's gun and keys. Ashley returns downstairs intending to kill that woman only to find out that Andrew already did it. and Ashley is still stuck on the fact that Andrew thought she was pretty, this leads to a huge argument about Andrew's sex life and Andrew openly wonders what his problem is, dude, you know what his problem is, you're not stupid , Ashley has been stalking her girlfriends and obsessed with her love life since they were kids, you already know something is deeply wrong with her, connect that last point, people are claiming that the relationship between these two has an incestuous subtext, but already we're over the fact that Ashley can't stay on any topic without mentioning it.

Going back to her relationship and even when we see moments of vulnerability from her, it is immediately shown how she always pretends. This isn't subtext, it's just a text message as Ashley screams about how her brother belongs to him while she hits him. There are episodes. from Criminal Minds more subtle than this spy family is more subtle than this Andrew finally takes the lead and at this point I thought: kill her, kill her, kill your abuser, Andrew, it's good for you, but in the end he doesn't because that one doesn't It's the guy. of the game the developer wanted to make with the key to the second floor in hand the two sneak out the second floor window using a rug and a nail gun.

Okay, you first and then Tam R. I'll go first. I am a lady. Very unfeminine lows. n really stretching those comedic chops, watch out for Kevin Fogy, they work out what they're going to do and once again the dynamic stagnates between Andrew, who is actually taking the serious situation seriously, and Ashley still making duck faces. so that the audience does it very. Of course, she is not like other girls, as if someone had a star and a Nera to reproduce to create the most boring woman in the world. As we enter chapter 2, a week has passed and they are still arguing like brothers, in fact, we bring this video to you in folders. coffee heading back to their motel room Ashley worries about the fact that Andrew insisted on separate beds, but given the fact that one of them has clearly been used and has two pillows and the other isn't and doesn't have one, why?

What exactly are you complaining about, Ashley? If Ashley walks in front of the TV, she hears, get your fat ass out of the way. I think you met my amazing fat tits. You move. You move. If you do it again, he gets very sarcastic. You are very lucky. I love it. You're too much to shoot, that might be the only honest thing Ashley has ever said. You're supposed to say that you love me too. I do it now. Ashley finishes cleaning the room and the two argue about Ashley's complete lack of respect for a simpleton. They request not to call him Andy and are interrupted by a news report that their apartment burned down destroying all evidence of their crimes and leaving them presumed dead. .

Now, of course, they go to bed, but Ashle has a vision in her dreams that someone is coming. to kill them in the middle of the night get up I had a vision man the Netflix reboot of That So Raven just doesn't have the same magic they go out to wait for the killer because Ashley is dumbfounded by the audacity of this man and why he deserved that they murdered me while I slept? But Andrew gets bored and decides to follow some cultists. It doesn't mean much, except when they start trying to summon a demon and it fails.

Wow, look at this amateur hour. Ashley summoned something on her first try, word of the day today, the kids are traumatic bonds, they go back to the motel room and decide to take their things and leave even with Hitman there, if you interact with the cabinet they will slit your throat with a game. over a text saying that Andrew didn't fare much better, although given his romantic streak he probably didn't want to live without you anyway, this is one of the two times this game does something that really shocks me because, hell, that's Bleak surviving and getting your Stuff you just have to go to the park.

Are you tired of living? Ask your doctor if euthanasia is right for you. Oh, this takes place in Canada. They arrive at the park and Ambush The Hitman or rather, Ashley forces Andrew to Ambush The Hitman. Ashley never really. she kills anyone herself, she always makes Andrew do it or gets the demon to do it and they steal the guy's car and make plans to travel with his parents to rob them. Ashley wants to kill them, but Andrew convinces her to simply steal during With this planning, the two get into a fight over nicknames, or rather, Ashley starts a fight while fighting for control, but Andrew refuses to budge on the issue, because which Ashley sulks and gives her the silent treatment until she falls asleep.

It is at this point where she has a vision of the demon she summoned before her and complains that if Andrew tries to talk to her he won't know that she is deliberately ignoring him instead of being like him. The devil doesn't care at all about the lovers' quarrel you're having with your brother. You should start giving more arguments as a lover's quarrel, regardless of the actual relationship of the people involved. It will change the air in the room so quickly that the people involved will forget what they are discussing. The entity offers to recharge the Talisman in exchange for more. souls and Ashley knows exactly who to offer as a sacrifice as she tries to find her way out.

Ashley finds a muffin that causes her to have a flashback to when she was a child on her birthday where no one, not even her own parents, decided to celebrate. she explains so many things Andrew comes in and offers to buy her a cake that she downgrades to a package of muffins because she's only seven and she doesn't really have much money. Ashley agrees, but only if he watches a really gory movie with her, why do you like it? This movie again because they told me I can't watch it. I'll give credit to whoever knows. The developer knows this.

Your audience. The sad thing is that this is the only time the dynamic between these two is actually cute when they're just being normal. Kids are normal at least to Ashley and it's the first time she offers insight into why Ashley is so crazy; Her parents basically isolate and neglect her, with only her brother for company; Unfortunately, it's a very dangerous little game for a parent to play. That brief moment of character work is torn away the moment Ashley wakes up and starts the whole psycho goth girl shtick, once again arriving at her parents' house, the two of them break in and start rummaging through things. of their parents seeking to steal them when they find letters. claiming that their deaths were blessings in disguise and their death certificates indicate that shit is about to happen.

Her mom comes home and they both play dumb and act like they were let out of quarantine and then eat dinner while cleaning up Andrew's flakes about robbing the house or killing. them and get into another lover's quarrel when Ashley gets it in her head that Andrew is leaving even though he literally never has while they argue, her mother walks in and sees them and since Andrew's fingers are hooked in Ashley's. belt loop I wonder what correct conclusions their mother will draw asks them if they have a place to stay but they don't and they don't plan to live there anyway but since you're already here I guess one night won't be a problem but you need to start looking another place to stay first thing in the morning and they should probably be two separate places in this economy, are you crazy lady, overnight?

Andrew has his own dream about cannibalism and how much of a burden Ashley is one of these places is his ex girlfriend's room where he has 127 messages from Ashley screaming at him telling him he's worthless telling him to kill himself and do you think you're Better than me just because you can? He and I can't. I feel very uncomfortable with the energy we created today in the studio. You know we're in Andrew's subconscious, so he knows Ashley is like that and he knew it when he and Julia broke up. What a problem Ashley was being and she didn't do anything.

This isemphasized even more in the immediate flashback where Julia says that Ashley needs independence of her own and Andrew dances around the issue and won't commit to it. Ultimately, he talks in so many circles that Julia is fooled. to think that something was achieved here. I'll be fine if you're with me, could you put your hair up for me? Oh no, the thing is that so far Andrew is the subtle character, the one with a real shred of normality that makes him descend into more disconcerting madness. Ashley abandons the ghost from the beginning of the game and spends the rest of the game being a creepy stalker.

Andrew has to slowly descend to that point so that when you get to moments like this it hits you right in the gut. It would actually be really cool if the whole game was like this and that's what most people talking about it claim is that after finishing the puzzles we get another flashback of them opening the box they left that girl in and Finding out she's dead, oh God. God can't believe it Andrew is horrified while Ashley isn't bothered at all Ashley doesn't start taking things seriously until Andrew makes it clear to her that boys and girls go to separate prisons if they get caught and that's when she wakes up and...

How was it? I'm supposed to know that they bury, no, and then they go home, where Ashley makes it clear that if Andrew doesn't do everything she wants and agrees to be her best friend, she'll tell everyone what he did, so Andrew says it will be whatever. she wants him to be very poor in his choice of words a week later they take a blood oath yeah kids taking blood oaths that Ashley will keep quiet as long as Andrew keeps his eyes closed which I guess means turning a blind eye to her, the dream ends when Ashley keeps whispering in her ear to kill her parents.

The parents they argue with start to get affectionate and are interrupted by her mother, who is starting to wake up to the fact that shit is about to happen and They put it because they tie up their parents and rob them before leaving Ashley alone to prepare the ritual during this time with her mother. claims that she tried really hard with Ashley and that she's a holy mother, uh that's a horrible lie after solving the theft limit on the card that Ashley leaves to finish stealing from them and her mother tries to convince Andrew that Ashley is the one only. a real problem having a pity party for herself, like if Tim Burton made Riding Cars with Boys, when does this work end?

Do you call it work? What do you think is a vocation? So she offers to let Andrew stay there and get him a job. get her a normal life, but Andrew refuses, he's seen the death certificates, he knows she's full of things, his mother doesn't understand his flat refusal, so being on the run and being murderers can't be preferable to a normal home life, so she does the best she can. I guess Andrew is completely out of line G Andrew vehemently denies such accusations, but Ashley arrives at the worst possible time or the best possible time, depending on how much you enjoy secondhand embarrassment, the demon is summoned and he eats the souls of their parents.

The demon recognizes Andrew and tells Ashley to take him with him on her next Vision Quest, then they clean up the bodies and a notable change is that things between them are much more affectionate than before, so they both decide to see if they can use the artifact. together and Go to sleep, the dream involves things, I actually have more to say later, so we'll stick with that for now, suffice it to say that in the end you can choose between going through one of these two doors, only one of which It really gives insight. That Vision is a conversation that happens after sex, they both watched it and in keeping with the theme, Ashley is flippant while Andrew is positively mortified.

Screw you, yeah, Andrew and Ashley might start saying the quiet part out loud where Andrew reveals that he's conscious. about how jealous and possessive he is and Ashley says she thought it was inevitable oh, I'm sorry, I said the silent part out loud. I meant the loud part on a megaphone on a vua on another megaphone on that horn Mark Robber incorporated a walkie-talkie on the other side of the country with that Cannon sound that the police used to brutalize protesters and then with a third megaphone alone just in case Andrew sweeps the elephant across the rug and they're going to get rid of the bones of their parents and their previous discomfort. it's almost immediately forgotten when they go back to making out and that's it, the game is over, my job here is done, the occasional funny moment or interesting bit of character work is completely shot down by some of the most banal writing I've ever done. seen and an art St that looks like a potterhead really got into Black Butler the pretensions of being a horror game are flat false advertising.

I've seen more terrifying and shocking

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in crpgs from 20 years ago the idea that this is some kind of refuge in taboo is ridiculous because the murder in cannibalism makes up a fairly small portion of the game itself and the rest is the same type that you can find in around 200 different anime released last week. Honestly, I'm shocked at how naive he really is. that's something you have to try to do with all the fuss that's been created, all the discourse surrounding it, and the way my inbox was littered for most of October and November. I was more expecting to hear other people talk, you get the impression that this game is about toxic codependency. and murder with incestuous overtones that unfortunately gained a fan base of incest-loving nature freaks.

That's not what the game really is. Cannibalism and murder are a small part of the game. There's a scene involving eating human flesh out of desperation and That's it, the entire story of the game is about Ashley's obsession with her brother and the way she sabotages her life so he can never leave her. This is not subtext or implication, it is explicitly what the game is about. The rest of her crimes are surprisingly dull. he only killed six people over the course of the game and only two of them didn't deserve it this is not a game about cannibalism with an incestuous subtext this is an incest game with a brief commentary on cannibalism I can understand why people are upset because the game sells itself as one thing and is secretly about the other, well, I mean, it's not a secret anymore, actually, the way people talk makes it seem like it suddenly becomes like that in the last 5 minutes, but no, no, it's like that throughout the game.

At this point you realize that while the Steam reviews won't talk about anything else because there's nothing else to talk about, all of this is made especially clear in the funeral dream and is the only time where Ashley begins to be more than just a cardboard cutout with a TV Tropes article glued to her face in the dream, you wander around placing stuffed animals in a way that mimics Ashley's perception of real life, place the green stuffed animal with the pink stuffed animal and the pink stuffed animal is Happy, take it and wear it. An angry Ashley slowly locks in everyone who stands between the pink and green stuffed animal, from representations of her parents to her old school friend she murdered and Andrew's girlfriend, destroying them all in one way or another making sure that nothing can keep Andrew away from her, whose stuffed animal he is. now called the best thing in the world, in the end not even Andrew is safe as she locks him in a golden cage.

The next puzzle depends on which of the doors you entered, but the only one with any character work involves Ashley taking everything. of his memories of other people, things that could create a happy and stable person and replace them all with Andrew Ashley's obsession with his brother has consumed his entire life, it's the only thing he thinks about, the only thing he cares about and it's in At this point you understand why Ashley is so flippant about everything else that happens in the game why she doesn't care about the girl she murdered why she doesn't mind eating human flesh why she doesn't mind committing parasites because all those things were done with Andrew at his side.

All of those things were done to make sure Andrew stays by her side. She doesn't have any reaction to anything else because she's too busy thinking about Andrew. She very busy looking at him. Honestly, this section would be more comfortable with the bad ending, how exactly do you determine the good and bad endings in a game with the villain protagonist? Anyway, Ashley has things going on here to the point where Andrew is openly hostile towards her and won't take anything from her. The vision here is reality. Andrew screams and tries to kill her in this ending.

Ashley actually backs away from her control to a certain extent because she sees what will happen if she pushes Andrew too far and their relationship has deteriorated to the point that Andrew doesn't hold back his disdain for her like he does. I used to, but the whole gameplay part of that dream honestly feels tacked on and that's saying a lot in a game that uses more taxes than a cork board with a masochistic streak, this is also the case if you take the door on the right in The Burial Ending also has much less character in that puzzle and ends without any insight.

You can always know what route is intended by virtue of where the work was performed. This is as close to depth as Ashley gets. It's the only moment where she goes from being a cardboard cutout to being completely pitiful and pathetic because that's what happens with characters like Ashley, hell, with people like Ashley, their pathetic messes with nothing else going on in their lives. than their sessions, and the truly sad part is that they could easily outgrow it all. this with some therapy and real friends, well actually not specifically, she's a murderer, but for anyone else, the easiest way to get over an incestuous attraction is to be willing to do it, covering that in a story would be dark but moving, it would be a really uncomfortable look. someone's damaged psyche in a compelling way, especially when they tried to pick up the pieces, but this isn't that kind of story, it almost is, sometimes it borders on it, it has to by virtue of the theme, but it really doesn't. go there the rest of the game feels less like a character exploration and more like an excuse here are two people completely up the game says now let's see how they get worse that sounds really boring and the reason it's so boring is because of itself Ashley Ashley is objectively the most boring character to ever grace a PC screen outside of her burial dream, her clear and obvious mental health issues played so cheerfully that, despite being an unrepentant psychopath, she just wasn't scary not at all to its most vengeful characters.

Her actions are presented with her hehe, CKY girl Vibe and her entire character is built from original anime tropes. She literally she was talking about the best version of this last video. It's actually Andrew who is the more disturbing of the two because he's much more subtle if you don't pay attention, you can miss a lot of the creepier things about him, like the fact that he's faking his nightmares just to share a bed with Ashley. Damn, I missed it. I stole this footage. I won't do it again. Andrew. is, at least to some extent, I mean he's still a crazy person with a sister complex, the more sympathetic of the two because he spent his entire life at Ashley's whims because she's been threatening to frame him for murder, so either way he commits more crimes in his order and just accepts this as his life now or he'll end up going to prison anyway, you'd think escaping this would be good for him prison sentence or not, but given his choice of words, It's clear that having the responsibility of basically raising Ashley as a child has already messed with his head and given him a complex.

Andrew is the only case where the game comes close to being the horror game it ironically claims to be by rigidly adhering to the banality of evil from which evil does not come. The great motive of evil is boring, boring and bureaucratic. The main fundamental difference between a serial killer and a genocidal dictator is an army of Yes Men. It is clear that the author can write a genuinely disturbed person and the other half of the main characters simply decided not to break up. What Ginger said on last year's show: There's a fundamental difference between a creator who can't write and one who can and refuses.

Ashley is just ridiculous, both the extreme cruelty of her and the theatrics of her, this is the main character of The Game and there is less to say. she than a Saturday morning cartoon villain. I'm the first to say that villains don't need to be complicated, but the villain protagonists learn everything about her at the end of the first flashback and then you just have to keep watching her. Going around until the last 20 minutes, ironically, playing this game made me think more about a movie called God Bless America where two people go into a rage because they think society is degenerated, but all they really do is kill people who they're being a little rude or Attention Seeking, you sure get the catharsis of watching Glenn Beck get shot, remember when it was relevantand while the film attempts to provide the catharsis of simply shooting everyone in your path, it also shows that you ultimately can't kill them all. and society will just walk over your body and continue as it was before, it won't end cathartically because if you're the kind of person who thought American Idol was the symbol of the end times, the whole movie is about who you are. some crazy guy replaces American Idol with Tik Tok and suddenly Frank feels like kids my age are going crazy and killing some teenagers for saying they're not alive, which I swear some Tumblr users are one censored CER away from making this movie, it's like the honest version of whatever the Joker was trying to be, the unhinged guy who goes on a rampage because of society, he's actually just a big guy who got fired from his office job for sneaking up on one of the women.

At the beginning of the film, he literally fantasizes about shooting a crying baby. in the face with a shotgun, his first real murder is that of a rich girl whose only crime is being an idiot, hey, you in the Joker t-shirt, who are currently scribbling names in your Death Note-branded notebook, this is you You, this is what we think of you. What makes this movie work is that it is decidedly unsexy. The only person who thinks Frank is cool is the actual teenager who thinks he's high-strung and knows everything. It's a film that goes against the common sentiment that we all have violent impulses.

It is common. for people to say Hey, you know, we've all wanted to kill the guy who cut us off in traffic, but the uncomfortable reality is that no, no, we don't all want to kill every rude person we meet in our lives. Self-absorbed, not all of us have violent impulses toward a crying baby on a plane, and your violent thoughts aren't even violent, they're melodramatic. Fantastic expression of how much you absolutely despise being bothered even a little because you're such a self-absorbed Drama Queen that the slightest obstacle sends your imagination into overdrive. Andy and Lelay's Coffin begins at that point with Ashley jumping straight into sociopathic cruelty the moment someone comes between her and her brother, but it goes nowhere. it gets to the point where you have to do a thesis and then it's just not surprising that some people think the description is an endorsement when this is your description once you get to the end it doesn't make sense it's just what are you doing step bro, with fewer steps we get to the end where it turns out that in the future they probably will and the game continues Tada and I say, what are you playing for yourself?

I didn't do anything, oh, but isn't it so shocking and disturbing? It's not a game, haven't you been preparing me all along with scenes that scream they're going to do it, oh lord, they're going to do it? and then they, i don't know what you expect me to say, well that's a lie, i know what you expect me to say, the imp, the aacy, the unidentified, the closest this gets to that horror factor is that it shows a a not-too-far-from-the-future Andrew who was completely broken and joined Ashley in the second circle of hell, but the later scene doesn't do anything with that other than engage in a long back-and-forth about how, oh, we can eat and kill people but we can't, which ignores the fact that until the end Andrew didn't want to do any of that either, ironically, most of the game's fans reduced Ashley's words when they encountered someone who felt uncomfortable about the incestuous nature of their relationship, which is right up there with quoting Tyler Duran Rick Sanchez Tony Montana Walter White kylo Ren Darth tra andwin Ren or Thanos is a bad plot and you know it's a bad plot because you made your psycho waifu say it in loudly before anyone else had a chance to explain why.

The dissonance is that most people are fine with reading a story about a cannibalistic serial killer because it will almost certainly end badly for that person, plus cannibalistic serial killers were in the news for a short time and have been the subject of villain stories for decades establishing that villains eating people is no big surprise, we've all seen The Silence of the Lambs, we all know how this goes. Consensual incest, on the other hand, is not narratively compelling in the same way, at least not in this context, that's more the scope. of tragedy, not horror. I'm not the first person to point out that we tend to be more forgiving of depictions of violence than of sex, but I'm going to be the first person to point out that pointing out that doesn't mean you're smart, you haven't figured out some secret, the public is squeamish about sex and the more unconventional the depiction of consensual incest is, the story will put most people off, it is completely new information, the truth is that this is not a dark story that covers dark themes It looks like it's wearing one's skin, but that doesn't mean dark stories have anything to say about their material and that's the problem with these shocking games and why they're always flashes in the pan why Postcard became a name. familiar, but postcard 4 had nothing but dispassionate ridicule.

It can't be surprising because she has nothing to say. She doesn't use incest for artistic reasons. He just revels in it, but at the same time. is too afraid of protests to go anywhere at the time of writing the third episode hasn't been released yet and I think it was a deliberate choice, the whole story has a joke feel to it haha, unless the vision at the end is something that the player can avoid if they want and they always avoid going too far nowadays, as if they were testing the waters to see how people react, stripping away the aesthetics and the taboo and the fact that 90% of the appeal is in saying : "My God, I can't." I think they made a game like this and what you're left with is a pretty dull and boring story about someone being systematically abused by his gleefully violent and terminally obsessed younger sister and you know what, but I could have told you that kind of story for a long time.

Ashley's abuse of Andrew and her constant erosion of her mental well-being is the only consistent through line in the game. We see this from the beginning, where Ashley's jealousy leads her to actively murder Andrew's friends at the end of the game. take him to the same pit of hell she's been in for decades. In theory, this could be an interesting story. Amab brothers being abused by possessive apab brothers is not something people take seriously and boy, I know this from personal experience, but not this game. Don't do anything with it, it's just a refuge in boldness, but to tell you the truth, if you asked me if I think that everyone who likes this game has an incest fetish, I would probably say no, it is common in the material that covers up taboo relationships assume that the taboo is the only selling point and the people who liked it clearly liked it for that reason and that reason alone, and while those people are certainly here, I honestly think it's the aesthetic the one that attracts more people if you change literally everything external to the story. the genre, the characters, the theme, the tone, the aesthetics made it like a loving but active relationship with two completely different looking characters.

I don't think it would have the same audience watching a skinny goth girl cut up people and eat them, probably a much bigger impact on why people will buy this game instead of its supposedly taboo material. If the main characters weren't just a sexy guy from Tumblr and Tim Burton's heart Shadow, he wouldn't have had as big an audience as he does, and in fact, that's just as basic and boring as those who are into this singing thing. Sweet Home Alabama All Summer Long. The only thing about this that comes close to making me angry is thinking about how for years we've had to deal with people with the most boring tastes in the world acting like they're a brave and bold counterculture pushing against puritanical American values ​​people who romanticize Relationship Abuses Women who fawn over serial killers like Rockstar groupies Men who do nothing but watch anime about having a little sister figure as a pet, the sad and depressing bleak reality is that they think they're a strange, but they are not.

Disney spent millions of dollars redirecting its biggest media acquisition to appeal to these guys. Netflix has made two Bland dramas to appeal to these guys and a half. The anime industry is kept afloat solely because of these guys. There's not much more to it than selling you your most depraved violent fantasy as a retail product. The truth is that the audience for these things doesn't care about quality. They don't like dark storytelling and they don't like uncomfortable material, they just have a fetish and as long as the work has the right labels, they will fall for it.

We are in a time when disgusting and at the same time boring people proudly broadcast themselves. As such, we see more and more genres of literature affected by what is essentially a bad AO3 solution that managed to get published entirely at the expense of an audience that will totally buy a 200,000 word story romanticizing abuse, incest, cannibalism, or three things it has. It's never been an easier time to become a published author or game developer. Andy and Lelay's Coffin is the video game equivalent of an Ali Hazelwood novel. It is the most basic and rushed SLA wallpaper paste that triumphs on people's backs. a habitual fetish or bad aesthetic taste trying to hit the antis in the most mundane way of a vanilla soccer mom because that's always been the problem with let's see them get worse by telling stories, everything is still dulled to continue being a consumer product like the dmer series above is made for thirsty 21 year olds with something to prove and therefore can't be too extreme with the material so it plays everything very koi and very sarcastic and that means which has much less ability to make you uncomfortable. the vision where it turns out that they and go, oh what a relief because they finally stopped dancing for 4 hours.

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, and why shocking jocks are just flashes in the pan at best, is that dark, taboo material is just disconcerting. and effective when it's serious when at the same time you want the people involved to be happy but you also know that this is probably the worst way for them to do it, that's part of what it means to feel uncomfortable, that's why this theme only works on tragedy because you can't wink. wink, nudge, fight your way through tragedy, you used to be something authors understood, but we're in Darkest Timeline 2023, where I'm packed with bad AO3-inspired amateur porn for every Kink Under the Sun to give to every 20-year-old years that sweet, sweet taboo. fix it, but this time it's a rare commodity and inserting introspective character drama into the mix would just gross them out because at the end of the day, darkness wasn't what they came here for.

Remember how the animation fandom got really obsessed with dark, mature animation? to show the norms that animation could be a serious art form, but all they defended as such was children's media categorized by pages about how to be yourself, how they would take clips of qara rinsing her hair and saying it's a show for children, thus moving the goalpost of acceptable material back several levels so they could fool themselves into thinking that children's media was actually super mature and for adults, the thing about those guys is that they didn't really want adult animation, they wanted T Nami with more blood if you did the animation. equivalent to Shaw Shank Redemption, they would have despised it for not being anime enough, their stated interest in what they really wanted were fundamentally opposed to each other, they had redefined a mature animation for Naruto and demanded that the industry give them that and most of the Nasty people have done the same thing, demanding the dirtiest profane art imaginable, but what they produce as an example is just a Quenton Tarantino movie with extra steps.

I remember the way fans of the Dmer series openly bragged about how they watched it while eating and wishing they had more Gore and I realize I sound like those guys in my review of this game, but what stands out to me It's that he fundamentally didn't understand why people were upset. that Jeffrey Dmer's real victims, the mutilations of their bodies the way the authorities allowed it to happen and the way groupies continue to worship Dmer to this day, became an exploitative television show for them to True Crime fans will salivate that it wasn't too gory, in fact there's something quite strange about making a miniseries about a serial killer instead of, like you know, a documentary and this performance of people bragging that it didn't put them off was especially disrespectful, this was not the time. to tell everyone you're a big boy, you're watching the slasher moviewithout feeling dizzy, if anything, you were missing the point so badly that you impaled yourself on a rock, especially now, when everyone has trouble finishing the Jeffrey Dmer series, but you finished it and wanted to. had more Gore, that's a really roundabout way of saying you wish you could see more black men butchered like a Sunday roast.

Truth is entertainment as a consumer product is designed to downplay blood and violence by ironically inflating it. The footage of Bud DWI killing himself on camera will drive any idea that you have a strong stomach out of your head. You have no idea how much Hollywood spoils you when it comes to violence while you pretend to be nervous to stroke your ego and that's part of why. Violence is more acceptable in art than sex and all this. I'm very rude, it was just a bunch of sad idiots posturing to prove that they have a stronger stomach than the people who thought this was disgusting because that's always been the case. what's up with this new edgelord twitter brand the puritans or the woke nags or the antis always complain about living their heads completely rentrée they can't do anything without turning to those guys and asking for forgiveness, you're too sensitive, sorry I'm too harsh for you.

It bothers them so much that other people give them strange looks; they have oriented their entire diet and media identity around their obsession with imaginary Puritans. The number of times I've seen these people pretend to be survivors of what they're fetishizing has gotten to a point, I don't even dislike it anymore, I just laugh, this is the only reason you're back in the popular lexicon and not only because of these clowns when they talk even about important things like the oppression of LGBT people or lies. Internet arguments like Kink at Pride, people still label scary or prudish attitudes towards sex as puritanical or purity culture, why calling it Catholic or just prudish isn't dramatic enough, that girl, a teen drama queen , that's where we are now, outrage is not it. what it used to be, no one writes letters to the editor or goes out on the streets screaming to ban this sick crap, they just insult you on Twitter, so people who are touchy-feely and can't handle any public reaction just exaggerate like melodramatists.

They are few, even the political right is no longer outraged as before. Everyone is trashing Walmart because Budlight put a rainbow on a beer can or whatever it was supposed to be. I've said this about many things over the years, but this refusal to move beyond the mental age of 14 is what's really bringing down art. All this acting for so long has hit too hard for someone to shout loudly and proudly for her mother to leave her room.