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wow. I’m sorry you feel this way.

Just to clarify, the world is not all sunshine & rainbows. It’s a story. It’s a small game & nothing more. Would you have complained of the guy was left alone? Probably not. Also, I think very highly of women & this game doesn’t portray any hate towards women. As I said, it’s a story.

I am married. I have children. You need to be able to separate the art/game/creation from the artist. As I said above, it’s just a game. I’m grateful that you tried it & your opinion is valid. I appreciate your time leaving me a comment but I stand by my decision to make games the way I want to.

Films do this all the time & I think some perspective is needed. If you would like to look at any of my other games on here I’m sure you will see this isn’t a trend.

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Matt Reeves3 years ago(+1)

One of the staples of horror is characters making stupid decisions and dying for it. This is nothing new. If you were familiar with the horror genre, you would either realize this, or be the angriest person in the world. Not to mention, this game was made in 5 days. Your extremely harsh criticism is totally unnecessary, and a waste of your time.

JohannesJanssen3 years ago(+2)

... and others' time too....

Does a film maker create a film about Hannibal Lector because he is a fan of cannibalism?

Is the developer of games about WWII a Nazi or a fan of war or of bloody things, or sadist?

There can always be argued about whether a story is good or not, but hiere someone seems not to have unterstood what makes a horror story...

JohannesJanssen3 years ago(+2)

I have not played yet, by connection is a bit slow at time, but then I will report a bit....would be the first time, I have not reviewd games before. I think I am not the best to this because I have not depeloved anything myself until now.

Aaron Wise3 years ago(+1)

Honestly buddy, I am fine with any comments. Constructive criticism is fine. I'll appreciate any feedback regardless :)

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Aaron Wise3 years ago(+1)

You are reading way to much into this.

Let me grab you some testimonials

Adrionic3 years ago(+2)

You must not play many horror games if you think ANY main character is gonna make rational, real world decisions lol. You gonna criticize Capcom for making Ethan Winters literally lie down and watch his wife get shot up full of holes and his baby stolen and brought to a vampire village? This is what separates games from the real world. ESPECIALLY horror games.

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Adrionic3 years ago

If you don't think charging head first into certain doom is a dumb decision, I don't know what to tell you. Almost every horror protagonist is guilty of doing this. Otherwise, the games/movies would be over as soon as you start them. The ONLY relatable thing they could do is say "NOPE fuck this I'm out," but where is the fun in that? Play Man Of Medan and tell me all those characters are flawless, relatable human beings who always make good decisions and don't do stupid things that cause harm to others. That is one of THOUSANDS of horror games with flawed protagonists that make outlandish decisions that would never take place in reality. You're looking WAY too deep into a 10 minute indie horror game and taking one aspect of it to heart for no good reason, and applying a fictional character's stupid move to a real world scenario that could never happen. And just because you don't like the game doesn't absolve you of criticism when you start hurling personal insults at the developer. There are a lot of games on this website that present FAR WORSE situations than this one, so you're in for a rude awakening if you decide to play more.

StarrStreams3 years ago

People put alot of effort to create these games for us all to enjoy. I personally enjoyed this game alot. If you do not enjoy something then that's okay, you're free to express that of course. That's the beauty of art. It's subjective. The dev even said that himself, but what you're doing here is just being outright rude. Please be more considerate when offering feedback here. It goes a long way. Your feedback is hugely valuable to developers of these games if expressed in the right way.

Aaron Wise3 years ago

you are a legend. Thank you.

What people don’t realise as I don’t actually say anything about this is I actually study game development & recently just received the highest mark in my cohort for my work.

The university of Falmouth is also specifically curated towards games, so to think that I don’t know what I am talking about or not being able to make a game is ridiculous. Funnily enough if you check out EVP & What is that, he would see that I came first place in those game jams for multiple categories :)

Adrionic3 years ago(+2)

Also you should be careful what you write to people. You don't know how it'll effect them, especially since the dev is a husband and father. It was clearly not an intentional story choice to dig at women... To wrongfully accuse someone of such a thing simply because you didn't like a story choice is not cool.

Aaron Wise3 years ago(+2)

THIS ☝🏻

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