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This game is pain on purpose.
Yeah, can a game even be bad if it's excellent at what it intends to be?
This reminds me of a method of trying to evaluate art in an objective way. Basically you ask yourself 3 questions:
If the answers to 2 and 3 are "yes", then it's probably a good work of art. This helps remove the subjectivity of "do I enjoy it?" when evaluating a work.
I would say the answers for Desert Bus indicate that it is indeed a good work of art. It succeeds in being a monotonous parody of a video game which makes a political statement about what games would be if they lacked any fictional elements or conflict. And I think the statement P&T were trying to make with this game was definitely worth making. Plus, we know from the amount of people who play it as a streamed challenge game that there is some desire for a game like that to exist.
I agree with you completely, and I'm glad the game exists. It's just objectively the worst video game I've ever played.
The fact that it is talked about and marathoned decades after release mean it's good art