The Dismal Jesters are the least dismal part
Lisa: The Painful RPG is 10% off on Steam for its first week on the storefront.
I make a cameo in the game as an idiot who might get a sort of super rabies if you play your cards right (or wrong, depending on how much you want me to get super rabies). By rights, I should be telling you not to play this game. It promotes the idea that I am a pretty terrible person. That wouldn’t be fair to you, though. Lisa is one of the most impressive games of 2014, the fact that it was developed largely by one person notwithstanding. You should check it out, no matter how dumb and gross it makes me look.
The way it weaves narrative into gameplay is something worth talking about. The amount that it resembles the culture found on certain anonymous internet message boards is something worth crying about. The feeling you have when you actually manage to do something right in this terrible, horrible, no good, very bad place is worth cheering about.
If you’ve ever wondered what it was like to navigate a world where lust, fear, and sadism are the prime motivators in people’s lives, you don’t have to go to a college frat party or 4Chan anymore. Lisa: The Painful RPG offers up the same order of joy and pain, but without all of the struggles that can come from visiting those subcultures in real life. I’m excited to see what people think of it.
