etherane

You play Etherane games because you want someone to hurt you. To cut you, to choke you, to inflict suffering. There is no satisfaction, only the craving for more.

Bought it as soon as i saw etherane's tweet about it. I'm excited about it
Thank you for continuing on creating amazing work, you should be proud of what you made.

Before the game : What

After the game : What but sad

etherane never fails to make me feel miserable and empty after finishing their games

Ah i totally get it now
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Nice Text ADV game about Being Hungry, feeling pain, and struggles of immortality. Another Thought provoking game by Etherane! If you enjoyed Etheranes other games for their atmosphere and foreign yet relateable worldbuilding you will probably like this one as well!

Rene Best character

maybe not my favorite ane (hc3 is so emotionally cathartic and twc is so focused and precise and tuned to my interests) but probably ane's most accomplished. love the eurocomics flair to it (reminds me of voyage en satanie/satania by kerascoet in particular but the use of paneling definitely reminds generally of that style). love the alien anthropology approach to a story about familiar themes like climate collapse, identity and consumerism, political and social stasis, self-help and cultism, sedatives and the internet. it's really cool to see such a broad and varied set of ideas come together coherently, never didactically or needlessly preachy, instead just toying and prodding. the formal and mechanical stuff is also super cool, i've never seen bitsy math puzzles embedded into a twine game before, and the very brief point-and-click sequence really makes me want to see what ane can do within those confines. think it'd be wonderful. plus, there's the classic fujoshi-isms of ane here, the single-sex society of hjorians and their various dramatic and emotional entanglements. some jokes almost don't land (the echochamber stuff is a bit on the nose but actually ends up doing something!) but generally sharp writing, just a bit bigger than usual in scope which means more loose ends, and not really acceptably satisfactory ones at that. but man. it's so good to be an etherane fan!! one of the best working developers. and having the kai engel score be bespoke rather than sourced is suuuuch a boon to this, helps it feel polished, cohesive, and moody like nothing else. love love love this.

Identified more with this than the Myers–Briggs test

First I'll start by saying, this is a weird game.

Mr. Rainer's Solve-It Service is a entertainment delivery device. You're thrown into, what I can only presume, is a world, where events take place, and much of the piecing together of what any of it means is given to you, as long as you brought a notebook and pen to take notes.
The game is for the most part an absurdist comedic visual novel, only interrupted by some light puzzle gameplay whenever your personal value is too low. The bulk of this game (and I mean bulk, most of what you'll read in MRS-IS is the following) revolves around world-building and explaining the society the story takes place in, what the world was like before, what the biology of the creaturas that inhabit it are, and how they live their lives. Most of the active story of the game is told through the images.
The themes of the game are your standard modernist fare, society and its relationships with technology, the environment, science&religion and itself. The game utilizes a lot of satire and comedy to convey these themes, and it usually succeeds. Satire never really gets a laugh though, yknow it just gets a sort of "hmhm" and then you move on. I finished the epilogue of the game just shy of 4 hours, so if you're looking to economize your 5 dollars, you'd be better off waiting for a sale.
The art's a standout, you can see it in the previews, it's very STARK and VIOLENT and has a lot of BODY HORROR ELEMENTS I'd recommend buying for that alone, since the bulk of the story's there anyway.

That being said, game was great, its definitely one of the video games made last year that I played this year.