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Ville’s sharp wit, hostile aesthetic sense and pessimistic worldview shine as always. I respect his creative vision, so I really REALLY want to like his new game. Unfortunately Psycho Patrol R isn’t very fun or realized mechanically, a lot more restrained and less unhinged on the surface than his previous work. You won’t get as much of the cerebral whimsy of Cruelty Squad- though some of it’s still there, mind- nor the freedom of experimentation that game’s augments offered. No, of course I expected different gameplay in a different genre, but these points of friction are relevant, firstly because it’s clear he used the same level design philosophy as in CS of every AI insta-killing you for breaching sightlines, and secondly because it’s got about the same core design philosophy: making a sadistic game to diagetically complement that pessimistic worldview. Comparisons are bound to be drawn. MOOD

The difference between that game and this game is that Cruelty Squad plays fair with its’ difficulty and obfuscation elements and Psycho Patrol R plays dirty pool. PPR carries, frankly, a weaker level design that seems born from a self-consciousness to depict a more realistic world, but one could put up with it without the permanence of the consequences of failure in the general gameplay loop, or even success- you are not warned prior that you drain your coffers of every bullet fired from your person and your mech alike. This was not present in his previous work. Such a core thing makes me loath to even try firing a new gun I pick up lest I incur the wrath of the author’s merited hatred of economics.

Money is the only thing involved in getting equipped with new gear or leveling your RPG stats, too, making it the kind of game that will never open up to you if you never find the sole money printer quest or exploit that eventually walkthrough writers will point out to the masses. And most certainly not for playing it as intended! Oh, and those stats? Don’t expect the game to tell you what any of them do or make it worthwhile to experiment to find out- it just won’t. My imagination runs from me and says, maybe the author is nostalgic for getting ripped off by buying janky 90s PC games and beating them with walkthroughs. That could apply to you, as the consumer, too, but the fun in that was born of an age with no other options than to accept what you had, and in this day and age with a dearth of game options at your disposal such self-inflicted friction putting up with bad design is purely optional, a matter of taste, and it’s not my flavor. I acknowledge that it could be diagetic in his messaging that money sucks and is all-consuming in life, I get that, and I really do respect it on an artistic level. Is it fun to play around, though? Absolutely not. Only gluttons for punishment or smuglords deprived of meaning who can only find a sense of superiority in how they play with toys compared to others will defend this. Skill issue, I guess.

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