Recent reviews by -Rosebud ~ Rainy Daze-

TW: Mentions of r*pe.

I bought this game for four dollars last year out of morbid curiosity, then I forgot about it until now. I wanted to see for myself if it was bad or not; I'm a big fan of Homestuck, so I thought "Surely the creator of something I hold dear can't have written something as bad as people say."

Then I played the game.

I was streaming it to a friend who has already experienced the game, he got the pleasure of watching my slow devolution into insanity; this is his reward, for all his diligence, loyalty, and patience he is finally rewarded with not else but a front row seat to the regression of my psyche into that of a chimpanzee. If I hadn't uninstalled this game at chapter five then surely I would have developed a sense of mania that rivals even that of Gamzee's. My only advice is do not play this game, don't even ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ think about it. This is actually the worst story I have ever ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ read. This is not worth your time and the existence of this story is a moral abhorrence; if you unironically enjoyed this story then you are either stupid or morally bankrupt.

The protagonist, Z - an internet personality, an "egirl" - is a narcissist who borderlines on psychopathic; every action she takes derives from her own ego and yet the story refuses to acknowledge that she is a horrible person (and in many situations she is framed as the one in the right). At the beginning of the story she fantasizes about r*ping one of her followers; abusing the power she knows she would have in that dynamic. She opens DMs with one of her followers, Percy, to manipulate him into sending her suggestive images of himself. Then she belittles him anyways. At the end of chapter one she crashes a car while drunk, a cop comes to investigate; she kills him. In the beginning of chapter two she attempts to frame Percy for the crime she committed. Then she flees to the house of her (rich) friend, Abby, to hide from the police (without ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ telling her.) Abby is only slightly more tolerable than Z, which doesn't say much; Abby also serves the role as a Yesman to Z.

Then she starts an internet clown cult that trivializes the subject of gender identity; there's even dialogue suggesting that the characters *know* they're trivializes gender identity, which is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ insane to me because if Hussie knew what the ♥♥♥♥ he was writing then why did he still write it? After some time building this weird internet clown cult with Abby eventually she discovers that Z is using her house as hideout from the police. Abby forgives her immediately. Then they work together to con Abbys rich parents out of their money; this is one of the plots I actually think could have been good if it was written well, unfortunately it was not.

Eventually Z gets back in touch with Percy with the explicate intent to indoctrinate him into her weird internet clown cult and get him to join the con against Abbys parents. Eventually this leads to him moving to the island Z lives; he immediately gets arrested. Z crashes into the vehicle he is being escorted in, kills the two police in the car in broad daylight, pulls Percy out (doesn't uncuff him) and hides with him in an old abandoned restaurant as to wait for the police search to calm down. Then Z takes it upon herself to take Percy, while he is still handcuffed, and force herself upon him; she r*pes him.

By the beginning of chapter five Z and Percy are in Abbys house, the story immediately ignores the fact that Percy is now a r*pe victim who will very likely carry this trauma with him for the rest of his life. By the way, Percy does not get a single spoken line after this point; from this point onwards he does not speak or attribute to the plot, he becomes the epitome of a useless character until he is eventually killed off within the same chapter. Anyways, Z justifies her recent strand of murders with "they're cops, they deserved it" as if this woman (who is also probably white) has ever been a victim of police brutality in her life; she then starts an entire revolution against the police force which consists entirely of clowns. By the way, in universe the BLM movement is overshadowed and outperformed by this clown rebellion; this is a plot that Hussie felt so strongly about that he felt the impulsive need to have the narrator acknowledge it. This is funny in but one regard: it isn't, I lied to you, this isn't funny and you should not be laughing.

It was at this point I uninstalled the game.

This game desperately wants to convince you that it holds some deeper meaning about the feelings surrounding the pandemic and the protests which happened at the same time; it wants to convince you that it has something meaningful to say about internet culture and brand recognition. The truth of the matter is it holds no such meaning; every real world issue this story draws upon it does so without the willingness to treat it with the depth that they not only deserve but the depth which they actually have. I would say this story uses real world issues as plot devices to progress the narrative, but it hardly even does this; it mentions them briefly, jokes about them, and then moves on. In doing this it paints very serious issues like police brutality or the pandemic as trivial.

The revolution Z starts she started exclusively because she killed a cop in, ironically enough, cold blood; she was not a victim of police brutality. In the context which she killed that cop she was objectively in the wrong. Which is, needless to say, a dishonest presentation of movements started to combat police brutality. In the real world, police abuse their power against just about any minority you could think of (most commonly racial minorities) with no inciting incident leading them to that decision; they do it simply because that is the power they hold. In the situation Psycholonials proposes the inciting incident is Z crashing a car, to which a police officer goes to investigate the crash; thats not police brutality, thats a drunk woman crashing a car and then killing a man who investigated it.

Might I note that she shouldn't have even been drunk when she was driving; she got drunk, fainted for like 6 hours, and then woke up hungover. And bare in mind this is all from one very small mug of whisky. By the time she got in that car she should have had enough cognition to drive properly.

By the way this game avidly refuses to acknowledge the devastating mental, emotional, and social effects the pandemic had on the world even though they keep ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ mentioning it. Like, I guess it just didn't happen; it was fine guys, nothing bad happened here.

I ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hate this game. I hate it so much. Don't play this game. I'm removing this game from my Steam library.

Homestuck