just came across this -- dingdong (with julian) bitterly shitting all over every facet of what's generally considered an indy game masterpiece:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=7CbPs7FP5uI:4281
i look back fondly at their time with oneyplays but this "playhthrough" to me is just toxic and depressing. they misunderstand game mechanics and then spend long minutes complaining about them, they criticize shit that's not even in the game but that they think MIGHT be in the game, and we miss the first hour of them complaining about the developers' incompetence because they, the critics, were too incompetent to get their mics working.
maybe my favorite negative thing is that they accuse the devs of carefully setting the game's pacing to TRICK people into playing it for 2 hours before discovering it sucks, so it's too late to get a refund. Yes dingdong i'm sure that was the strategy.
to me hating NITW is like hating undertale or something. is it perfect? of course not, and the ending is a dumb mess, but come on. the soundtrack alone is all-time great, as is the small-town atmosphere. The boys even hate Demontower, its addictively stupid roguelike minigame.
i can understand if your ideal gaming experience is Escape from Tarkov that the jumping bisexual animals having emotions are not your thing but this is dingdong and julian. NITW is basically indygame catnip for depressed homos. idk they just seem jealous of it or something.