Y'know, sometimes I just don't understand. I'd like to explain why or how I don't understand, but I can't even understand that. I tried playing Hello Charlotte, and I wanted to tell you about it, but I'm not sure I'm qualified. I was prepared for something weird. Something unusual... but not this.
So, mechanically, Hello Charlotte is a RPGMaker trilogy. The second episode is linked and free, and the first episode is available as the second episode's demo, which is already a weird way to distribute a game, but whatever. They're supposed to be short stories with psychological horror themes.
I couldn't get very far, because I felt uneasy reading what seemed to be written by someone who was either mentally ill or 3 years old. This clearly looks like a solo project, but the Steam page is neat and tidy, so whoever made this is probably fine, and maybe this makes it all the more impressive.
I can't really describe what I experienced. You interact with things, and they give you textual responses, but it's nonsense. I've read absurdist fiction, but that was quite normal compared to this. Something about gods, and puppets, and interdimensional beings, and there are colored sqaures in my bedroom that break the fourth wall, but I'm aware of this, and the world doesn't exist, and a cockroach delivered me my capitalist diabetes food, and then I opened a box and everything collapsed into a singularity and I got a bad end.
This doesn't make any sense, and I'm not trying to make it sound confusing. This is actually what I got from playing it. This is all with a small 400x300 pixel box in the middle of my screen that can't be resized and droning music that's kind of starting hurt my head along with all the nonsense that's happening.
The game gave me a bad end, and I got out. I'm happy I did. I do not understand how this has overwhelmingly positive reviews on Steam. Like... Yume Nikki is a very logical and simple to understand game compared to this, and even that was too much for me. If you're any semblence of normal, do not try this game. If you want one of the most absurd experiences ever, then this is it. I've never done hallucionegens, but I'd imagine the real world makes more sense after those than this game does without them. A hard "Not recommended" from me.
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