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iloveabunchofgames · 1 year

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The Aquatic Adventure of the Last Human

by YCJY

Price (US): $4.99

Included In: Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality

Genre: Action

Pitch: Metroid meets Shadow of the Colossus after global warming.

My expectations: The dense, layered pixel art and complex map imply that serious effort went into whatever it is I'm about to play. The screenshots don't present much obvious action, though.

Review:

Enemies are a threat in your typical Metroid game, but not for long. The first time through a new area, players are likely to be cautious; perhaps even fearful. By the third or fourth time through that same room, Samus will have grown so powerful that popping enemies is as challenging and meaningful as popping bubble wrap. Slamming a fist down on bubble wrap that was once a scary threat? Now that’s satisfying. Shadow of the Colossus does not fill its vast landscape with trivial monsters. It is a series of boss fights, where each boss is a world unto itself, to be studied, climbed, and attacked.

The Aquatic Adventure of the Last Human wants so badly to combine the two, but it’s confused about which half of the mermaid is supposed to be a fish.

There’s no challenge, no satisfaction in moving through its oversized, vacant labyrinth. Boss fights are messy, twitchy shootouts that consistently overstay their welcome.

Players control a submarine, which scoots freely through the sidescrolling world. You can forget about the “how do I get up there?” puzzles that defined Metroid and Colossus. You can forget the appeal and depth of those games, altogether.

+ Looks good! (Mostly.) + Intuitive controls. + It's always nice to acquire a power-up. + Good message about the danger of global warming and the other ways we will destroy ourselves.

– A huge, maze-like, non-linear world...and most of it is empty? Are you kidding? – Weird visual problems. The slightly-off tiled background is a constant distraction. The submarine is a flat gray, without any shadows, and its pixels are a totally different scale from the rest of the game. Background and foreground can be hard to distinguish. – I'm hesitant to ding the game too harshly for this. I haven't tested any other controllers, so maybe this problem is unique to my weird hardware, but since I can only speak to my own experience: Yo, this is the worst rumble issue I have ever found in a game. The controller vibrates when you'd expect—getting hit, firing a harpoon, etc.—but then it keeps going for five seconds. That is a long time to shake at maximum power just for taking one shot. – Most bosses are faster than you and shoot projectiles without warning, so getting in their faces doesn't work. Taking opportunistic shots from a afar, and retreating further to recover health is a reliable way to whittle them down, but they set an instant-death trap that blends into the background, and there's another five minutes down the drain.

🧡🧡🤍🤍🤍 Bottom Line: Points for effort, but that's all. The Aquatic Adventure of the Last Human is a shallow game (sorry) that fundamentally misunderstands everything that inspired it.

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thecuddlymuffintop · 11 months

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Right now, I am coming back to streaming on YouTube with Post Void for Short Game Fridays.

This stream will most likely be extremely short due to its intense flashing imagery and strobing lights. If you are photo sensitive or have a history of epilepsy/seizures, I highly advise you to skip this stream and take care of yourself. I will be back tomorrow night for more Banjo-Kazooie.

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savingcontent · 2 years

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POST VOID, the psychedelic first-person shooter finally comes to PlayStation and Switch in late September

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b3crew · 11 months

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REVIEW | "POST VOID" | B3 - Boston Bastard Brigade

The premise of POST VOID is fairly simple: keep on killing, and keep on moving to survive. Hesitate, and you die. Dilly-dally, and you die! Allow your severed head idol to deplete itself of health, AND YOU DIE!!! So yeah, POST VOID is certainly one shooter that requires you to always be on your toes in order to win. And man, is it tough as hell!

Roaming around a place that looks like a Primus album cover brought to life, POST VOID will have you shooting to live at every corner. From gangsters to drones, everything that will come at you wants to kill you. Come to think of it, because your idol easily drains itself of health, one could say that even the very thing keeping you alive wants you dead! So who’s there to look out for you? Nobody, that’s who!

It’s this aspect that keeps you running and eying every single corner of the rooms. You don’t know when you’ll be attacked, nor can you create a strategy to avoid death next time around. Because every play-thought is different from the last, you cannot make notes or create a rhythm to make it through each of its eleven levels. One can only jump right into the craziness, and cross your fingers that you won’t die.

And POST VOID absolutely loves killing you! Dare I say, it mocks you every time you start or restart a level. As your idol drains, a countdown will start to let you know of your imminent death. The only way to stop the countdown is to tally up a body count. But these enemies are not chumps; they’ll gang up on you and turn you into a statistic in no time!

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pixelatedaudio · 11 months

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Emily Reese - PA179

We’re joined today by Emily Reese; Minnesota Public Radio newscaster, VGM podcast legend and co-creator of the Level with Emily Reese and Top Score podcasts with Sam Keenan. She is a trumpet player, and studied music education and jazz studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder and received her master’s degree in Music Theory from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Emily is an avid gamer…

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miketendo-64 · 1 year

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[EXPlay] POST VOID (Nintendo Switch)

We try to escape the madness that is #POSTVOID that is so crazy addictive, we just dive back into it again and again on #NintendoSwitch @SuperRareGames #SuperRareOriginals

Welcome to EXPlay, (Explain & Play) the review series where we care not for scores but tell it how it is when it comes to every game we get our hands on, whilst also taking the time to include some lengthy gameplay, to give you the reader, the chance to shape your own impressions and views whilst watching and reading. In this installment, we’re covering Tiny POST VOID by developer Y/CJ/Y…

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gmlocg · 1 year

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3,160.) Post Void

Release: August 6th, 2020 | GGF: FPS, Action, Arcade, Score Attack, Roguelike, Psychedelic, Surreal | Developer(s): YCJY Games | Publisher(s): YCJY Games, Super Rare Games Limited, H2 Interactive Co., Ltd. | Platform(s): Windows (2020), Nintendo Switch (2023), PlayStation 4 (2023)

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bizarrobrain · 3 years

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Post Void - YCJY Games (2020)

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niche-gamer · 5 years

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Reverse Lovecraftian Horror Strategy Game "Sea Salt" Launches October 17 https://nichegamer.com/2019/10/03/reverse-lovecraftian-horror-strategy-game-sea-salt-launches-october-17/

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hardcore-gaming-101 · 3 years

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Post Void

You are a being who was peacefully living in the void, taking in all that never ending nothingness, loving every minute of it – and then there was sudden things and stuff and it was just awful and terrifying. Thus, you are now running around with your own head in your left hand, which drips life goo, shooting at abominations trying to get back to the void as you are stuck perpetually in the time and place post-void. Absolutely none of that makes sense – logical sense at least. But emotionally, you may have felt a vibe with that. Welcome to Post Void, a game all about bad vibes and flowing with them.

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twincitiesgeek · 2 years

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Post Void Is a Bizarre, Exhilarating, and Visually Striking Indie FPS

This fast-paced, colorful game is designed for your inner speedrunner.

Post Void is wild. It’s a simple premise. You have in your hand an idol that is constantly draining liquid. Getting damaged makes it drain faster. Kill enemies to boost the idol. Get to the end of the level before the idol drains completely. Post Void is made by YCJY Games, a two-person game studio based in Gothenburg, Sweden, who have previously published two other small titles on Steam. Such a…

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mega-wad · 3 years

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Pages from the artbook of POST VOID (2020) YCJY Games

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savingcontent · 5 years

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The Aquatic Adventure of the Last Human is coming soon to Nintendo Switch

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nintendo-town · 2 years

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Découvrez la bande-annonce du nouveau titre Super Rare Games Originals sur Nintendo Switch

Super Rare Games vient de dévoiler aujourd’hui la bande-annonce du nouveau titre qui va rejoindre sa gamme “Super Rare Games Originals“. Son titre: Post Void, un FPS développé par YCJY Games. Attention tout de même, car ce premier trailer pique pas mal les yeux… Attention si vous êtes sensibles aux effets stroboscopiques ! En tout cas, ce FPS a l’air bien barré… On est pas loin d’un Wolfenstein…

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coupanfree · 2 years

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Eye-Melting FPS Post Void is Coming to PlayStation This Spring – GameSpew

Post Void, originally released on PC, is coming to PlayStation courtesy of recently-founded publisher Super Rare Originals. Technically, it’s a first-person shooter but it’s about as far removed from the likes of Halo, Call of Duty and even Serious Sam as you could imagine. From developer YCJY Games, it’s got strong rogue-like elements and forces you to dash through a bizarre, warped world,…

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hermanwatts · 4 years

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All the fun of Doom is injected into this tiny, wild shooter

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Post Void is teeny-tiny, but drenched in style

All the fun of Doom is injected into this tiny, wild shooter published first on https://sixchexus.weebly.com/

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