NOCLIP Pocket E50 - An Edgelord Production - Sally Face

Once they started calling me that, I figured if I owned the
podcast, they couldn’t use it against me. Welcome back to NOCLIP
Pocket! It’s the middle of October which means we are right in the
middle of horror season, and so today we’re talking about Sally
Face. Sally Face is a horror adventure game made by a single person
that mashes together so many elements of horror that you might find
it surprising that the game actually manages to be surprisingly
sentimental. While the game begins with a combination of real world
horror and a couple of ghosts, it quickly spirals out of control
and adds more and more elements, potentially as a consequence of
its episodic release structure, or maybe a desire to fit all the
developers ideas into the game, but whether you find this disarming
or charming is going to come down to personal preference. It’s a
game that has a certain edge to it from its lo-fi production and
subject matter, but in the end, if you stick with it, you will
become strangely endeared to the characters. We’re going to talk
about how tone and atmosphere fit around overall aesthetics, having
a mix of different mechanics thrown in for variety and how well it
was pulled off, and we discuss this games meets meets meets between
Nickelodeon cartoons, video games and collectible cards from the
80s. Thank you for joining us again this week! This game comes from
a recommendation from an IRL friend (thanks, btw, if you’re reading
this), and we were pretty surprised by how positive we came off on
it. Which is a spoiler for the episode, I guess. If you played
along, let us know how you felt about it down in the comments or
over on Discord! I would imagine for people less entrenched in
adventure games this may feel a little mechanics-light, but it hits
a sweet spot I think for most audiences with a tolerance for the
kind of game this is. We’re going to be wrapping up Halloween on
another pocket episode, so be sure to join us while you’re carving
your jack-o’-lanterns or eating candy corn or whatever you do for
the season as we discuss Carrion next time!