Earlier this week, the marketing team behind Square Enix’s upcoming action game Abandoned posted a tweet with some selling points and a short gameplay video.It must have been a normal and often forgotten task in video game promotion, but dear readers, this video bad.
Before we go any further, here are the tweets:
I know what they are trying to do here. Breaking this down into relevant parts, Like the promo for the Marvel TV series where everyday kids get wild powers. But yeah. This is bad!And the ratio under the tweet is hard sciencethe fact that this video has been quote-tweeted this many times (at the time of posting) is not a good sign.
i didn’t write this However I’m sorry, every second of the internet sucks, but I wouldn’t bother posting on the Kotaku.com website.I am writing this to share examples of some great people â some of the highlights from 6757 above â absolutely roasting video.
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Voice actor Jo Sung Won is active Mario, animal crossing When Danganronpa In one video:
this is @maximus123458 give undertale âTalk to the cuffâ treatment:
I also got Metal Gear as a courtesy. Jake Bardino:
If you want to scroll through 6700 other examples, from Metroid to Persona to Half-Life, you’ll find them here.
Readers may remember the last time we wrote Abandonedapart from the protagonist Frey, it was late 2021 when we found out‘s actor Ella Balinska is not a single BDirectly involved in the creation of this eminent B were vacancies.Square Enix instead states that the team “worked closely with a number of consultants with BIPOC backgrounds.”
Finally, for those wondering if this trailer isn’t representative of the game itself, here it is Another useful passage from the game’s Isaiah preview:
Another concern I got into the preview was how often Frey and Cuff joked with each other during gameplay. In response to this concern, Square Enix said the intention of the joke was to showcase Frey’s complexity as a “complex, imperfect and raw character”, although she now It’s about making her more relatable as a player’s self-insertion into the bonkers setting they find themselves in. of.
Maybe this game will be good. But Major I can’t remember when his pre-release routine got this bad.
