You finally have a game that is a beautifully animated avant garde passion project that not only wasn’t rushed, the dev released it for free. In a year full of overpriced corporate slop and microtransaction BS destroying the industry, It’s a breathe of fresh air to have a simple, fun game that is experimental, weird, that is both visually and audibly stunning. And again, it’s free.
So how does the chat of one of the most popular streamers react to it?
Try hard
Too weird
Zoomer humour
I’m convinced gamers hate games.
Like I know it’s a dumb thing to complain about idiots being contrarian on the internet, because it’s nothing new, but it just annoys me that people can’t just let something be art. Particularly when this project clearly had a lot of heart and soul put into it.
I hate how much lazy, sloppy thinking it provides cover for. Like, 'cmon. A) anyone of any age can enjoy and/or be completely repelled by a piece of art and SECONDLY ena is steeped in 1990s iconography, from the early internet to the beginning of the anime boom across the english speaking world – they can’t even identify the right box in their stupid arbitrary category
Yeah I was gonna say, I have zero context for anything in this trailer but the CD-I style animations alone make this 2000% millennial-coded lmao
Exactly! It’s so stupid.
Even if we are going to seperate stuff into generations (which is dumb for a number of reasons) as a millennial, I think ‘zoomer humour’ is way funnier then my humour was at their age. But also, the ENA creator is a millennial… so if anything it’s millennial humour? But again labelling humour as generational is stupid anyway because surrealist humour goes back further than any of us and most of my humour was formed around media made by boomers anyway.