I actually loved the original- Indie Game: The Movie. It discussed the struggles that developers embark on when initialising development on ambitious indie games. This however, had no problems. The indie developers were happy with their games, and that's really it. Phil Fish's story in the original was incredibly entertaining because of all the problems he had at PAX. This however, just felt like a big gloat and that's it. Nothing new to add to the table, nothing to say. Just the developers winning awards for their work. No complications or anything. They obviously deserve the awards they receive as they faced extreme agony when facing the release, but this shouldn't have been a documentary release.
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n3vermind2 September 2016
I did kind of know what I was getting in to as I watched Indie Game a while ago. I wouldn't say it was a masterpiece of a documentary, but I enjoyed watching the "about to make it"-story.
This however, has no purpose. Well that's not true, the purpose is of course to show you what happens, once you have made it. Unfortunately it loses it's way and becomes less (if at all), about indie game developers, and more about a couple of guys who have been trolled on the internet and want to troll back.
It does get over that hump, but it's just too huge a chunk padded with entire YouTube clips (first you get highlights of the clips only to show them in their entirety).
I'm sorry, this was just uninspired and really had nothing to say. Having said that, I was just happy to see the developers got paid off for their hard work.
This however, has no purpose. Well that's not true, the purpose is of course to show you what happens, once you have made it. Unfortunately it loses it's way and becomes less (if at all), about indie game developers, and more about a couple of guys who have been trolled on the internet and want to troll back.
It does get over that hump, but it's just too huge a chunk padded with entire YouTube clips (first you get highlights of the clips only to show them in their entirety).
I'm sorry, this was just uninspired and really had nothing to say. Having said that, I was just happy to see the developers got paid off for their hard work.
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