So you've heard of this game,"Needy girl overdose"is it? But like what is it even about?
In this game you assume the role of a guy whoose girlfriend decides one day to become a famous streamer in a month.The girl in question,named Ame,enlists our protagonist,who she calls p-chan,to be her menager,but what sparked the sudden desire to be such a popular streamer?
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Oh,that's not good
But it's not like she'd want to expose herself to the crowds,so she downs the persona of OMGKawaiiAngel or Kangel for short,becauseThe gameplay loop has you helping our little angel on her way to stardom,which entails maneging Ame's daily activities like going out,playing video games,watching movies,looking through the web,simply spending time together in the confains of their apartment or just sleeping.But when night comes it's time to rise and shine,during that time period you may decide to stream,obviously no good streamer does only one thing,so yours come in a variety of flavours too.
The essential mechanic you'll have to keep in mind is status.At any moment the player can open up a handy menu displaying how our girl is doing
Most importantly this window contains information such as:
Stress-pretty self evidently this is the amount of pressure Ame feels in the moment,if this one is too high you'll see her at best shaken up and demotivated
Affection-this is how well Ame likes you,you wouldn't want to increase it endlessly and make hereven more reliant on you,but if you neglect her needs and go against her wishes for an extended stretch of time she'll start to hate you,disobey and leave you.
Mental darkness-this is the overall mental state of your friend,you might just want to pay extra care to make it stay as low as possible.
When you're all but focused on the destination,becoming the biggest the biggest streamer can be and you don't leave a day wasted at some point you will come to a stop,where thou could say"well I'm bricked".
Y'know kid there is something I didn't tell you about,if you're in a rough spot,looking for a way to take the edge off,you could always,'use resonable amounts of drugs' or '***' and maybe you will have to resort to them. The time is tight and time is money.You've only got noon and dusk for your daily activities.so beware.
My only complaint about the system presented here is the obtuse source of some endings,while the basic interactions nudge the player towards a couple of the simpler endings it's not enough later down the line,it's kinda cheap to check for solutions or inconvinient to lead a spreadsheet where you document every single interaction at every single moments in the progression.
My way to slightly aliviate this issue would be to make the ending spaces in the menu give more forward hints if (x) endings have been achieved previously.
Style is something that just oozes from everu bit here as far as the eye can see,the gameplay is minimalistic,but effective,the story intriguing and efficient,but the style is simply sublime and eye catching. The visuals invoke a 90-ish atmosphere.
Filled with clutter dyed in rainbows with many windows opened at the same time,the very comforting chaos and disharmony you wouldn't want to get rid of,even if it's not very helpful.
The music contains a myriad of atmospheric songs fitting the mood. The theme you'll be hearing the majority of the time gives you time to asses the situation. Although with every action taken,the stakes increasing and stress rising the song begins to be more disturbed and frantic,not giving you any time to think.
Beyond that the tracks only strenghten the moments ,in which they're used,whether that'd be a calmer tone or something more chaotic,like the main theme,dissecting which allows you to have an immediate jumping-off point.
What are you left with after all is done? The most important part of them all,simply talking,texting,those moments are anxiety inducing and intense,chilling to the bone,petrifying.
Your empty voice rickoshets of the walls and cealing of this asylum you'd call yours
On the other side of the coin there are some hilarious segments in those aformentioned moments if you really look back on it.
Throught one of them you're allowed to anwser to almost every message in the conversation with a decisive "kill yourself" no matter what you were talking about just a second earlier or react to early morning existential dread and philosophical doubt with a sticker of a cat with the phrase "I'm dead" on it.
The narrative dives into themes od insecurities,impact of the widespread internet on our understanding of the world,mental ilness and effects of loneliness.
Nowadays more and more pieces of media focus on the "I",the limits of our brittle mind,but I belive"Needy girl overdose" is one of those you should keep in your,because you might just enjoy it.
Especially the portrayal of the growing feeling of being unwell.It is like meeting a dangerous repetition,trying to claw your way out,but the world keeps falling on the very top of you,even further submerging you into darkness.A deadly addiction,you're soon to overdose,you'd like to die,but it is never that simple of a solution.You'll further hurt yourself,struggling to hide from the problem,there never was a silver bullet

Originally posted by Anonomous:

Just get better

Complicated problems never have simple solutions.
*look away from the monitor*
But the cacophony in your ears is restless,the sins under your skin torment you endlessly.The internet engulfs you whole.
She's quite troubled,but don't give up and don't lose hope,maybe you'll be able to help her eventually,p-chan.
So that was a long review ;} if your reading this I hope you've enjoyed it,or at least learned something new here