Review: Brainpipe: A Plunge to Unhumanity
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xmetatr0nx said:
Acid is cheaper, but completely different. Why do people seem to think acid is just trippy colours?MaxTheReaper said:
I could see this as a fun game I would play (and I hate to use this word) casually. Its not something I would spend hours and hours on, but its something I could pick up when I'm waiting for my buddy to get to my house and have a good time with. I love the sound design, even on my shitty laptop speakers I can tell its stellar. The visual design is a but cliche for the whole "trippy brain colours" thing, but I like the idea of the iris/pupil reticle. It makes me feel like the game is just an eye looking inside its own head.
A friend of a friend told me yesterday that this game is AWESOME when you're tripping. The massive slowdown of time that happens, along with the mixing up of your senses and crazy visuals and sounds all add up to a great experience.
It's especially great (apparently) if you turn off the game's background music (but keep the sounds everything makes) and listen to dubstep while playing.
It's especially great (apparently) if you turn off the game's background music (but keep the sounds everything makes) and listen to dubstep while playing.
What does that MEEAAN?!?! I know I come of as fairly brash there but seriously, everyone keeps going on about things in video games saying "Oh well, now this contains many Freudian influences.", and all I can think is "What in the hell are you talking about?" This will probably make me sound like something of an idiot, since a lot of people here seem to be in on this, but I don't know who that man is, what he did, or why it is important, and I would really like someone to explain to me how being in a giant friggin' worm in which everything is trying to kill you, has anything to do with being a fetus, let alone flying a giant eyball through the world of Psychonauts.More Fun To Compute said:
Sigmud Freud was a very well known and influential psychologist. Not only was he influential but when some things seem to be symbolic of something else there are Freudian interpretations of what they mean. Travelling through a tunnel is symbolism that has a well known Freudian explanation.KingPiccolOwned said:
Personally I call that reading too much into things, however since that ddin't really explain much about the teachings of Sigmund Freud, tell me how the eyeball choo-choo goin' trough de spakly tunnel means smart things (intentionally stupid sounding).More Fun To Compute said:
There are far better places to learn about Freud on the internet than from me so I just gave you enough to look for more if you are interested.KingPiccolOwned said:
This sort of thing also goes back to the ending sequence of the motion picture 2001: A Space Odyssey. You could also watch that if you are really interested in what my post meant.
This game is... mesmerizing. If you have a nice set of head phones and a great display setup... well, lets just say I didn't realize 4 hours had passed until I felt my stomach protest... kinda straining on the eyes though. It's pretty doable at lower difficulty settings... but once you ramp it up to 5 or 6 it becomes relatively challenging... I ramped it up to 10 just to see how it plays out, I think if I were epileptic I would have had a seizure within 3 seconds.
