They also seem to be perfectly calibrated for streamers to lose their minds over. They all have a bizarre right-wing tinge to them: a euro-Jesus fighting D&D monsters, a tough guy principal keeping rowdy teens in line, a barely legally distinct Donald Trump. Even though these kind of ideas are explored in visual novels and other interactive fiction, this particular strain of awkward, mid-budget, first person social game seems to be something specific and new. I am truly fascinated by these bad looking games. There’s even a special command to flip off your enemies. You have a series of advisers that are portrayed as a floating JPEG in the middle of a three dimensional room. The player has to prepare speeches to counter the narrative given by something that is literally called “Fake News.” International negotiations are handled through a card based minigame. In the trailer, a brash, narcissistic president nukes North Korea, manages a Twitter account, and has a dialogue option to order burgers. I Am Your President seems to functionally be a Donald Trump simulator, pitched at the exact medium spicy level where it could equally be seen as a MAGA power fantasy or limp satire of such. It seems like a pretty sadistic game concept with the player character in the trailer giving out” F”s for laughing at him and the game boasting that it allows you to “create your own awesome punishments.” Again, the trailer doesn’t feel like actual gameplay, more like something being played by a hall monitor character on a sitcom. You have to manage the school, avoid pranks, call parent teacher conferences, and apparently hide behind trash cans on stakeouts to catch kids with dimebags before sending them to jail. I Am Your Principal is a school management simulation game that looks like if Stand and Deliver took place in the world of Rockstar’s Bully.
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