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This is a record of a twitter thread, originally posted in 2019

Thew
@AmazingThew

PLEASE click the steam link omg

the player character rides a skateboard but is also playing a running animation at the same time

Somebody Else (omitted for privacy)

沙雕之路 - New on Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/1092590 https://t.co/54wlMAMihp

Thew
@AmazingThew

It doesn't look like actually bad work, and it doesn't look like cringy LOLSORANDOM streamer bait either? It's like... some kind of actually pretty deliberate surrealism via wild kitbash aesthetics? Getting intense weird-ass 00s GameMaker vibes and it absolutely rules

Thew
@AmazingThew

I bought this game

Thew
@AmazingThew

there are NPCs everywhere and all of them have voiced dialogue and I can't understand any of it because it's all chinese

if you shoot an NPC they turn into a ragdoll but you can still talk to them lmao

Thew
@AmazingThew

Left mouse button is attack/breakdance, right button is pray

Thew
@AmazingThew

I can't read any of the text obv but there's something that appears to be some kind of networked mail system?

Thew
@AmazingThew

yALL

THIS GAME RULES

Thew
@AmazingThew

I REALLY wish I could understand the intended tone of all this. It's def intentionally comedic but I can't tell if it's like, Goat Simulator wacky or Undertale weird cute gentle absurdism

Thew
@AmazingThew

I suspect the latter? There's TONS of text and dialogue though so whatever's going on, I'm missing most of it

Thew
@AmazingThew

im
dead

Thew
@AmazingThew

wait, why am I holding thWHAT

Thew
@AmazingThew

Okay I managed to sneak around the back and get into the bicycle building and it's full of dudes with guns and a bunch of people in prison cells??

Thew
@AmazingThew

I must stress that I've covered and absolutely MINUSCULE fraction of the map; and everywhere I can see has a ton of interesting/weird stuff in it

even in an obviously WIP/early access state this game is apparently MASSIVE

Thew
@AmazingThew

Okay so if you die you lose all your money, which is worrisome because the only way to obtain money is by finding literal mario coins scattered around the world

it appears there's a finite quantity of money in the game, which doesn't respawn and can be permanently lost?

Thew
@AmazingThew

this is... a whole-ass action RPG? There's like shops and equipment and XP and levels and quests

Thew
@AmazingThew

ah man that's a bit disappointing

Somebody Else (omitted for privacy)

@AmazingThew I showed this to my Chinese friend and he said it's called "The Way of Idiots" and it's all full of Chinese memes. So I guess more of a goat simulator?

Thew
@AmazingThew

I gotta go to bed but this is absolutely wild