Agony

[Kurt Russell]

Agony is a first-person, survival horror set in ResetERAhell. You will begin your journey as a tormented soul within the depths of hell without any memories about your past.

This looks like a nice game.

WHAT IS THIS





HOW WOULD YOU EVEN COME UP WITH SOMETHING LIKE THIS?





NOT VERY NICE





IS THIS BOBBERTS?





TITS OR GTFO





HOLY SHIT THIS WEAPON IS LITERALLY MESSOFANEGO'S FACE





SHE SEEMS NICE





JESUS CHRIST THIS BOSS IS HIDEOUS





ALSO YOU CAN WEAPONIZE ETOILET'S BORE FORUM POSTS





...what's not to love?







Oh. 

"Look, in order to improve this waking hellscape of nightmares created specifically to torture souls for eternity, you need to apply an intersectional approach of gender theory to it." 

[benjipwns]

A mixture of what you might find in a horny teenager’s sketchbook crossed with an angry YouTuber screaming about how feminists have come to destroy their video games.

put it on the back of the box and print

[benjipwns]

Despite Hell’s prominence in games, it’s woefully underexplored. Hell is such a conceptually fascinating idea, especially when you go beyond the pools of blood and start trying to imagine the logistics and politics of such a place, and with Agony wanting to spend its hours taking a deeper dive into the place, I was curious. Clive Barker’s The Scarlet Gospels, while a disappointing final chapter for the monster known as Pinhead, spent much of its time exploring the mundane pettiness involved in running Hell as an institution. These are not the details Agony is concerned with. It’s more interested in coming across as badass

will wait for Hell Logistics Simulator 2018

[benjipwns]

you won’t realize there’s really only 90 minutes of stuff to do

wanting to see the whole game through, I eventually resorted to putting a YouTube walkthrough of the game on another monitor, to ensure I wouldn’t get stuck again

The only reason I clocked more than five hours was to reject any notion I hadn’t given the game its due.

Each time I found a man—human, demon, in-between—I would look to see if the game was applying the same aggressive exploitation to their sexual parts, and it was never the case. You can find a dick, but it’s just that: a penis

The game’s camera later pans down, as if emulating a PornHub video

The game’s Steam page makes no mention of almost anything I’ve mentioned here. Instead, it focuses on the game’s story of a “tormented soul within the depths of hell, without any memories about your past,” how you’ll be able to use a “special ability” to possess demons, the kinds of “hostile environment” players will have to survive in, and the game’s inclusion of both a story mode and an “open challenge system” that randomly generates levels, complete with high scores.

Perhaps the scariest interpretation is the developers don’t think any of this is a problem.

Rather than coding its ideology in metaphor or subtext, it’s danced right in front of you. Agony knows exactly what it’s saying.

great review, I learned some important details about Porn Hub aficionado Patrick who plays games while watching complete walkthroughs, not so many about the actual game itself but that's not important right now or ever

[Kurt Russell]

Is the game actually good? Don't really care about Waypoint or RE. I'm down for some death metal aesthetic.

It's a solid 6. 8 if you really like Iron Maiden album covers.

[benjipwns]

Is the game actually good? Don't really care about Waypoint or RE. I'm down for some death metal aesthetic.

it's got like a 40 MetaCritic score and even the user scores are at 5/10

from a casual glance at those and the steam reviews it seems like the main problem outside of people complaining about it being censored are that it's short and pretty buggy

[team filler]

for switch?

[bork]

Not something I would have cared about, but Patrick Klepek's glowing review makes me want to check it out when it's on the cheap.

[Joe Molotov]

I watched some videos, and the gameplay looks pretty bad tbh. Maybe worth muddling through for some bloodsoaked demon tiddies, but I dunno.

[Great Rumbler]

It'll show it up in some indie bundle in a month or two for $5 [or less], so I'll check it out then.

[Purrp Skirrp]

 

[Nabbis]

The art looks interesting, might watch on the internet or actually buy it if it sells for like 5$ or so.

Say what you want about the execution but it's interesting about Hell being formed as some murky Freudian sexual nightmare. Though Dante's Inferno did do that before in a better way(?). No idea if the game makers went for that direction instead of just being edgy, though.

[HardcoreRetro]

Isn't this the game they advertised as the H.R. Giger inspired horror game. Man, who'd expect genitals in one of those.

[Great Rumbler]

Isn't this the game they advertised as the H.R. Giger inspired horror game. Man, who'd expect genitals in one of those.

No, that's the other five-letter noun horror game:

https://scorn-game.com/

[Kurt Russell]

Agony’s deleted scenes include interactive infant murder and first-person rape with visible penetration

https://www.vg247.com/2018/05/31/agony-deleted-scenes/

Other deleted scenes include arse cheek physics and full sex quickly followed by the birth of a baby, which a demon pulls out of herself.

   

Here’s the checklist of everything still in the game, according to the Steam update:

Gore     
Brutal Sex Scenes     
Lesbian and Gay Sex Scenes     
Genital Physics     
Eye Gouging     
Heart Plucking     
Children Heads Exploding     
Setting Fire to Martyrs and Demons     
Intense Violence     
Strong Language     
Drugs     

[HardcoreRetro]

followed by the birth of a baby, which a demon pulls out of herself.

Sounds like the opening of Assassin's Creed 2.

[CatsCatsCats]

Scust

[Joe Molotov]

I watched the deleted scenes and final boss fight on Youtube. Looks like something RLM would watch on a typical episode of Best of the Worst and Rich Evans would go "OH MYYYYYY GAHHHHWWWWWDDDDDD!", and then he'd mispronounce a word and everyone would laugh and then they'd cut to the next movie.

[Brehvolution]

Agony and ivory
Living together in perfect harmony
Brian Boitano has a kilo
Eeyore oh lord
Why don't weeeeeeee?

[MMaRsu]

I watched the deleted scenes and final boss fight on Youtube. Looks like something RLM would watch on a typical episode of Best of the Worst and Rich Evans would go "OH MYYYYYY GAHHHHWWWWWDDDDDD!", and then he'd mispronounce a word and everyone would laugh and then they'd cut to the next movie.