SSR Wives: The Homicide Of My Winter Crush is Silent Hill 3 for individuals who just like the chibi proportions of Last Fantasy 9 and in addition, individuals who hoot in adoration once they see a low-poly mannequin of an iMac. I’m each of those individuals. Created by Hen Studios with a demo on Steam, it is a bitter and sugary mix of survival horror and romantic visible novel. You play one in every of a number of anime characters with names comparable to Tradgirl and Chudboy, all trapped in The City That Time Forgot.
These mouth-wateringly chubby iMacs? They’re save factors, the native equal for Resident Evil’s typewriters. Wonderful work, recreation. You may have jogged my memory of my advancing age in a manner I really get pleasure from.
The City That Time Forgot most likely ought to have been named The City That Time Intentionally Crossed Off The Xmas Card Record As a result of It is An Absolute Shithole. Right here you can see “liminal labyrinths”, an deserted missile silo, and a “clown carnival”. Additionally an “antiquated bakery”, however I would not contact the bread. It is likely liminal bread, with all the time angries up my guts. The Steam demo gives up a bunch of rusty tunnels and bogs the place you’ll encounter hungry large rats. Later, there are gnashing pumpkin monsters and diverse mutant clogboggoes with guillotine arms.
The place does the romance part slot in? Nicely, in the event you get to know and perform quests for the locals you may be capable of date them, presumably paving the way in which for one in every of a number of endings. Beware, nevertheless, that the city’s residents are “inflicted with dysfunction”, that the sport’s terrors are projections of their sins, and that you could “stability their emotional connections with the necessity to survive”. To which finish, SSR Wives harbours a sizeable assortment of shiny, real-world weapons, which look nearly cute in every character’s mitts till you hearth one and switch a rodent right into a casserole.
I fear SSR Wives could be throwback to the purpose of being obnoxious. This can be a recreation that describes non-tank controls as for “cowards”, which I’d deem “feisty” if the controls labored completely: as an alternative, I obtained chewed aside by a rat as a result of my character refused to strike downward. The Steam web page lists “basic door scene transitions” as a function, which looks like pandering and makes the sport sound like a jigsaw of references.
Nonetheless, it is a potent demo, and maybe not as straightforwardly “retro” as billed: there’s one thing happening right here with the intersection of fourth-wall-nibbling anime puppetry and cathode-ray Konami squalor I am nonetheless deciphering. The total recreation is out this yr.
