curious if the king in yellow stuff it keeps deploying in will cohere in a satisfying way but im havin a good time
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in reply to @icbmoose's post:
oh dang, I played through that this weekend!
I enjoyed it plenty, the 6-item limit feels very critical given it was stopping me from loading up with the huge mass of ammunition I has accumulated by the end.
yeah the recurring limit of 6 things is a fun touch. im pretty early in and a lil ammo starved, glad to hear theres plenty to be stored later
in reply to @icbmoose's post:
I don't think it does but it's a game that's more reliant on the sheer affective force of it's themes than on a coherent theory of anything, and it works great
yeah im definitely having a fun time and the vibes are compelling*. it was just a lil goofy because i was streaming to some friends in a discord and when i looked at the book cover you see at the start of the game and said "oh some sort of king... wearing yellow? makes ya think" and then clicked to discover its not even just referential thats the exact name o the dang book.
*the asterisk here is a slight wariness that a few o the messier ideas being played in, especially the overlap of cosmic horror and the robot-clone-dystopia implicitly having asian tech under the hood based on the "reboot screen" style cutscenes, could step on some rakes
has king in yellow stuff ever cohered in a satisfying way. im pretty sure it doesnt even do that in the original work
complicated question haha - i think in the original work it's an easier task to generously read something cool into the presence of the incoherence in a way i actually do like, and i think some referential examples manage to place it in a similar space - for example: dark souls is hardly beyond reproach for stepping on some o the rakes here, but i think that its king in yellow nod being contained in a miniature world built to be first and foremost a prison of fiction in which to store inconvenient dangers to a different fiction means that it basically works for me, especially since they don't write about it extensively in a way that might hurt the invocation. Book of the New Sun manages to skate by with just good prose carrying it. Signalis (as of the early part im in) though is in that dangerous middle ground of these two modes where it could have an unsatisfactory version of both
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