games

Technically not what I'm playing right now, but I recently played Nobody Wants to Die and while I didn't think it was a particularly good game, I was absolutely blown the fuck away by how unbelievably good that game looks. It's one of the few games I've played that made me literally go holy fucking shit out loud just looking at it. My jaw hit the floor about five minutes in when you get the full reveal of the game's futuristic cyberpunk noir setting. Just check this shit out at around 8:15, when the character opens the door of his car hovering over Times Square.

The aesthetic is like LA Noire meets Bioshock meets Cyberpunk 2077 and it's absolutely impeccable. It's a brand of art deco noir 30's retrofuturism that I don't remember ever having seen anywhere else, and it fucking rocks. A visual masterpiece that's sadly wasted on a game that's the definition of meh.

Overall it's a very mediocre game, the plot is pretty confusing and derivative, just a more noir version of Altered Carbon with a hundred different indistinct characters that I mostly did not care about or even remember who they were as your character does the murder investigation. You investigate by putting together a kind of puzzle visually connecting characters and events, but I have to admit that most of my progress was by trying random shit because I had no idea who anybody was and didn't care. The gameplay loop is repetitive and kind of annoying, but holy shit is it an absolute visual feast. Soundtrack's pretty solid too.