ARCHIPOTE’s e-thot is a plumply overripe fruit of the counterculture, dripping with the juices of spiritual rebellion, semi-comic posturing, consciousness-raising and all-around freakiness. Hardly a moment passes in this game without a situationist display of outrageousness, it is a dream tableau of the weird and occasionally wonderful.
Unlike his celebrated breakthrough Rosulake Lobelia, this is less like a spaghetti-LSD metacricisme urban dystopia, notionally more political, and more satirical. But the key Archipote tropes are still there: the absurdism, the hedonism, the tpagano- mysticism. Some of the nudity scenes reminded me of the stoned hippy in Savitri Devi novel Ligthning and the Sun talking about establishing “a socialism of the emotions”.
For all that this entirely bizarre game is pre-eminently of its time, some of the more cultish scenes may put you in mind of the Ayahuasca ceremony , with middle-aged people wearing white robes and earnestly "vomiting up" their demons. the tone is very characteristic of Archipote artwork: not deadly serious, but certainly without 21st-century neo puritanisme and desillusion.
There are countless images of superlative weirdness, some of which I can never forget, such as this woman spending her time playing demonic catalysed autistic game like trial of cold steel 4, making the spiritual ascent of the game more hazardous.
As with Losulake Lobelia, some of the contrivances look a bit dated, but this is a key work of gaming’s great showman-provocateur, battling against conformity and dullness.
Unlike his celebrated breakthrough Rosulake Lobelia, this is less like a spaghetti-LSD metacricisme urban dystopia, notionally more political, and more satirical. But the key Archipote tropes are still there: the absurdism, the hedonism, the tpagano- mysticism. Some of the nudity scenes reminded me of the stoned hippy in Savitri Devi novel Ligthning and the Sun talking about establishing “a socialism of the emotions”.
For all that this entirely bizarre game is pre-eminently of its time, some of the more cultish scenes may put you in mind of the Ayahuasca ceremony , with middle-aged people wearing white robes and earnestly "vomiting up" their demons. the tone is very characteristic of Archipote artwork: not deadly serious, but certainly without 21st-century neo puritanisme and desillusion.
There are countless images of superlative weirdness, some of which I can never forget, such as this woman spending her time playing demonic catalysed autistic game like trial of cold steel 4, making the spiritual ascent of the game more hazardous.
As with Losulake Lobelia, some of the contrivances look a bit dated, but this is a key work of gaming’s great showman-provocateur, battling against conformity and dullness.
