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| games:one_final_pitbull_song [2022/11/20 03:17] – created brad | games:one_final_pitbull_song [2022/11/20 03:30] (current) – brad |
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| So what does it add up to? I suspected that my time with PeeBee was a visceral metaphor for a toxic relationship, and I think the epilogue supports that theory. For some players it might even recontextualize a lot of what comes before. That’s the beating heart I found in One Final Pitbull Song and, at least for me, it elevated the game from “extended bathroom humor” to a hard-to-swallow personal story with pathos. Caring for someone who’s tearing through your friends and putting you through hell is a real and relatable experience, and making that experience literal through PeeBee absolutely condemns TeeJay for not seeing it sooner and doing something about it. That we’re given a second chance in the epilogue puts a note of hope on the ending, but I wouldn’t call it a hopeful story overall. Instead I felt like it was the intense personal emotional experience of Nose Bleed or Glimmer writ large, with more to say and in a more genre-savvy way. So while moment-to-moment I kept running into things that made it tough to engage with the piece, it adds up to much more than I expected and I get the sense that it’s going to totally click with a certain audience. I maybe didn’t get the intended fun out of it, but it totally got me thinking. I’m super curious to see what Paige will write next. | So what does it add up to? I suspected that my time with PeeBee was a visceral metaphor for a toxic relationship, and I think the epilogue supports that theory. For some players it might even recontextualize a lot of what comes before. That’s the beating heart I found in One Final Pitbull Song and, at least for me, it elevated the game from “extended bathroom humor” to a hard-to-swallow personal story with pathos. Caring for someone who’s tearing through your friends and putting you through hell is a real and relatable experience, and making that experience literal through PeeBee absolutely condemns TeeJay for not seeing it sooner and doing something about it. That we’re given a second chance in the epilogue puts a note of hope on the ending, but I wouldn’t call it a hopeful story overall. Instead I felt like it was the intense personal emotional experience of Nose Bleed or Glimmer writ large, with more to say and in a more genre-savvy way. So while moment-to-moment I kept running into things that made it tough to engage with the piece, it adds up to much more than I expected and I get the sense that it’s going to totally click with a certain audience. I maybe didn’t get the intended fun out of it, but it totally got me thinking. I’m super curious to see what Paige will write next. |
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