NOCLIP Pocket E49 - That Certain Elephant - Buddy Simulator 1984

What’s your favorite podcast? Welcome to Halloween! To kick off the
spooky season, we’re talking about Buddy Simulator 1984, which is a
kind of a weird melding between a number of different genres, most
of which I won’t want to give away if you haven’t yet played the
game. While Buddy Simulator definitely has the look and feel of a
horror game, especially in its advertising, that mix of genres is
equaled by a mix of tones and the game can be as funny as it is
unsettling at times. To avoid giving too much away, this is an
experimental indie game with a retro art style, old school musical
sensibility, self aware sense of humor (and general themes of self
awareness) and a quirky way of blending these things together, and
that’s either something you probably know if you’re into or not.
We’re going to be talking about games that can be both narratively
and mechanically different for different players or playthroughs,
comparisons to other games and what this says about this game’s
design and what it does to stand out, and how the game handles you
asking to bring a sea predator around with you at all times. Thank
you for joining us this week! We’re just getting started both as
far as our October horror games go and, in fact, episodes we’re
releasing today, so be sure to stick around and subscribe for the
incoming deluge of episodes. Did you play Buddy Simulator? How do
you feel about the infinite comparisons it gets to that certain
other black and white indie game? Is it warranted, or does this do
enough of its own thing to stand on its own? Let us know in the
comments or over on Discord! Our next episode of Pocket for this
month is going to be exploring Sally Face, a hand drawn point and
click adventure game with a sort of early 2000’s indie comic
aesthetic sense. It’s a bit of an odd one, so we hope you’ll check
out the episode!