I can't stop thinking about how they chose to film this like a multiple homicide. The handheld camera, the ice cream squibs, I feel like I'm watching Drive again
It's so weird to me how Sony has this rich history of colorful and mechanically diverse games that really cover the whole spectrum of interactive media and they traded it all in to make interactive HBO
You're gonna have to forgive me guys, I absolutely know "sus" is meant as a contraction of "suspicious" but I've watched hundreds of hours of youtube poops in my time and there's just no divorcing that meaning
Obviously it's not as simple as "old games good, new games bad", but they absolutely went and stuck all their eggs in one basket and it feels like something huge was lost in that wager
I'd coin it as "Benevolent Misogyny." The sentimentality is meant to act as blinders towards what is blatant commodification. It's what makes the cutesy shit that much more insufferable, it's ineffectual at hiding the real attitude fueling it
The other thing is you absolutely know they've got a playblast of this shot where none of the characters get up since that's the only thing that stops this from being genuinely upsetting
People are desperate for something that isn't dramatized genre fiction and it looks like Astrobot is offering that sweet sweet taste of low stakes fun for once