![]() The developer somehow manages to take the worst parts of command based OS, text adventures, 2D adventures, and JRPGS and combine them all into one uninteresting game. The interface sucks, the narrative sucks, the gameplay sucks. In my opinion this game fails on multiple levels to achieve what it set out to do. I wanted to play a high concept indie horror game, not a watered down JRPG. Once I got to the slow, boring turn based battles, I quit. ![]() What's truly bizarre is you will play these barebones games for hours with your buddy giving little to no input, making you forget what the core premise of Buddy Simulator even was. ![]() First is a text adventure with all the same problems of text adventures where it won't recognize common words, then a 2D adventure game a la King's Quest, then a 2D RPG a la Earthbound. First you play extremely simple games with your buddy like guess the number and rock, paper, scissors (it's as boring as it sounds) then your buddy creates increasingly more complex games for you. Once you get past the interface, the game is extremely boring. This might seem like nitpicking, but googling Buddy Simulator brings up page after page of people asking for help just to start the game because the interface is so bad. Something as simple as an extra space makes it not work. If you make any tiny mistake when entering commands, the game simply does not function. The command interface is quaint at first until it starts replicating what made command operating systems archaic. In reality this game is massively frustrating, obtuse, and not suited for console. An AI friend who develops an unhealthy obsession with you the actual player? It sounds awesome on paper. The command interface is quaint at first until it starts replicating what made command operating systems I really wanted this game to be something special along the lines of Doki Doki Literature Club. Buddy Simulator 1984 may not have the best RPG mechanics in the world, and you may as well forget about playing it in docked mode due to the level of text input involved early doors, but see past these minor gripes and this Switch port of a 2021 Steam belter is absolutely worth your time. These are called Mind Scanners.I really wanted this game to be something special along the lines of Doki Doki Literature Club. In pursuit of optimisation, a new profession is tasked to maintain the increasingly precarious anomaly levels of the city's inhabitants. In the name of efficiency, new machines and instruments are put to use on the public the instant they are invented. In The Structure, order and efficiency is maintained by severe top-down control. Here, the people isolated themselves, accelerating their dependence on technology and created a society as a machine of its own. In the next forty years, the megacity known as The Structure was erected inside the impact crater. And from it, the survivors learned to harness the power source known as Zygnoka. Gain the trust of The Structure if you want to see your daughter again.Report the resistance group Moonrise or join them to help their cause.Face difficult moral choices and ethical dilemmas.Vulgar Knight A fabulous study of technology going rogue - God is a Geek Buddy Simulator is an innovative indie. Spend your â‚apok and science points to develop new devices Buddy Simulator 1984 is pretty damn unique, and I like that.Operate and master a variation of arcade-style devices to treat your patients. ![]() ![]() Diagnose your patients by analyzing their views of the world.Manage your time and resources to aid the citizens of The Structure.Remember, you take full responsibility for your patients. Manage your time and resources to keep The Structure in balance. Locate a host of other-worldly characters and use arcade-style treatment devices to help them. Mind Scanners is a retro-futuristic psychiatry simulation in which you diagnose the citizens of a dystopian metropolis. ![]()
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