A wonderful game, made me tear up more than once, amazing art on your part, jolly Holidays to you!

Yhea, the final cutscene is just... OOF x.x

it really is a great game, i was suprised by how much i enjoyed it.

Absolutely wonderful art for a great game with fantastic music and story

On the 1000+ wishlist.
Though to be honest I'm kinda turned off on modern game development.
Because of that, a female main character is a yellow flag to me. But i put it on the wishlist for the mechanics.

Is it an endless runner as in you can't stop moving?
Got to go fast, reward platforming, or afore mentioned endless runner?
Does the story act self contained, or does the dev use it as a platform to bash you over the head with a 2x4 of their political ideology? I play games to escape the real world, not to be preached to by people who've never lived it.

It's Trials with a gun, has a very good, self contained story, doesn't care about politics. But it does deal a lot with abuse, loss, trauma, and just trying to live in a world that's doing everything to push you down. It's dark and depressing, but it's not what I'd call "modern game development". Game is pixelart, for starters, and plays a lot on the metroidvania style of old. The devs call it "Motorvania", 'cuz y'know, motorcycle.

If you played and enjoyed Hollow Knight or other such titles, you'll probably enjoy this one as well. Just be mindful that you're spending a lot of time going from A to B and back to A and then to Z and then back to B and then D and maybe stopping by C on the way if you can get up that ledge that you just barely can't reach but you might be able to if you do a perfect shotgun jump.

Thank you.

Hi! Feel free to ignore this if you want, but I am genuinely curious about what you mean that a female video game protagonist is a yellow flag for you. Could you explain this, please?

Well more or less, from what i've seen in modern indie and many AAA games. A female main protagonist, without the player's choice of having one. Is a caution, it could be a good game, but, just about every game with one I've seen* that likes to 2x4 you over the head with their political ideology.

It's always, an anti capitalism rant using made up or already solved issues. Also ironic that they're selling the game. Btw no other system has made it so that even the poorest live a live far better off than any poor person at any other time in history to date. combined with an anti-male screed bordering on pure hate using fake problems and outright lies while real discrimination puts men in prison for life without a trial**. Sprinkled on top some variant of communist or Marxist screed. an ideology that has cost the lives of over 200 million people combined between USSR, china, Cambodia, Vietnam, etc. All from someone who's never either worked a day in a hard physical labor job in their life nor has paid their own bills, possibly up to and including while they get money for their game. Or to be summed up 'muh current day'


*one exception being disco Elysium with a male protagonist. made by devote communists, seriously search for interviews they say as much. The game is coded that you cannot get the canonical ending of the game without helping the communists win in game. You can't even kill the npc like all the others that have his police equipment if you don't want to deal with them. His gun is hard coded in the game to not appear in the communist leader's inventory till after you help his faction beat the others.

** look up how child support courts work. judges are encouraged to set payments based on the possibility of the man earning X income. Say you're a software engineer, just started, you're making 60k a year. Completely legally, they can set payments on the highest end of that job's scale. 200+k a year, and if you say you can't pay it or object, they'll just say 'why aren't you trying to earn that'. if they fail to pay, they get thrown in jail, then taken out of their cell every 6 months and asked to pay up or go back to jail. a defacto life sentence without a trial.

in the interest of seeking more information, could you provide examples of so-called political games? And why?

you said, quote: "no other system has made it so that even the poorest live a live far better off than any poor person at any other time in history to date"

yeah... sure... try telling that to the veteran's who make up roughly 20% of the US' homeless population and hear what they have to say about that...

or try telling that to 53 year old Susan Finley, a Walmart Employee who got pneumonia in May 2016 and was fired because she had taken off one day beyond what is permitted by Walmart’s attendance policy, making her lose her health insurance leaving her unable to go see a doctor because she couldn't pay the medical bills anymore.

Susan Finley was found dead in her apartment 3 months after having been fired by Walmart.

supposedly, 1 in 3 GoFundMe campaigns are made by americans who are trying to pay medical bills.

don't get me wrong, homelessness and high medical bills are issues in other capitalist western countries as well... but nowhere near as extreme, rampant or bad as in the US.

capitalism in the US isn't all its hyped up to be, especially when you start comparing it to other western countries and its really easy for you to get screwed over in the US.

so with that in mind, can you really blame especially US developers for being fed up with this nonsense and voicing critique?

I certainly don't.

sorry, wanted to add this real quick:

currently, 62% of full time working americans are living paycheck to paycheck, making it the most dominant lifestyle in the US. furthermore, 63% of full time working americans do not have the money to pay for a 500$ emergency expense.

is it really a good thing if more than half of a country's working population is struggling to just get by and survive despite working full time?

There's nothing else to do
There's nowhere else to go
There's nothing else to live for, anymore

This game gave me feels <3. Riding down the road with a huge dust trail behind Laika with The Whisper playing.

Here we are, I'm just before the final boss
Glad many more people can enjoy the game as well

awe shit

I'm not crying, you're crying Q3Q

Gawd I'm so glad to see another played this game and can love how wonderful it is too. Aggh <3
One of the hardest games out there story wise that stabs you in the heart practically every single cutscene. And the music? To die for- it accents the feel of the game the entire time. Beicoli really outdid herself with it.

Beautifully done <3 I hope the makers find and frame this one!

I played the demo, and even that bit tells you a lot. It's a very interesting blend of genres and mechanics, with a very, very mature and dark story, but at least the intro seems like it treats the subject matter with respect instead of for pure shock value

In my honest opnion, was a good game with a good idea, but had many lacks (i don't tell here for avoid spoilers and because we aren't on steam)
the only thing i totally dislike was the ending without any form of aftermath , even something like this cool fan art would be appreciated!

AHHH the feels T_T
Incredible artwork for an incredible game!

Don't cry, my love, don't cry, my love.
It's okay, it's okay. I'm not gone.

I have my issues with how the game ends, and some of the gameplay mechanics etc. But it hits pretty fucking hard at times.

This piece actually helps with my closure regarding the game too, so thank you! This is great

Oh yes this games is really good .
The music (I had my 3..4 favorites), the simple but fun mechanics, the story. It really gets you to like the characters and it left an impression for the days after I finished it. Sometimes it shocks you a little, sometimes it makes you feel sad, and in some missions (at the end) you can choose which way you want to resolve it. But all of this is necessary to build the characters, in the end I thought, "omg that's a really good mother".

Really nice fan-art

AAAAAAAAA YOU GOT THE UKELELE FOR HER
God, this game absolutely broke me. I love it so much. Excellent work on this!

And she learned how to play, too :3

I absolutely need to draw something for this game damnit

downloaded and ready to go! Never even heard about this game before but look amazing and I can't wait to play and probably cry!

The ending made me actually cry.

actually crying, shes so proud.
Laika smiling is such a blessing, shame it was such a high cost.

OMG this is incredible. This is definitely my game of the year. I also ugly cried at certain parts...

(Also the cables at the lighthouse area can diaf.)

Thankfully that's the ONLY place with that mechanic..

it was good....but at the same time....CRAB

Fun fact: You can kill that boss in one shot with the rocket launcher if you can get it early ;)

crab

What is the name of this game? i might need to take a look at it for myself

See: Title of submission :p Laika: Aged Through Blood

What if she got ahold of her moms Beicoli tapes, and learned to play the Ukulele and sing to them.
and she does that at her moms memorial to make her happy.

I had planed to buy the game after trying the demo despite not being the biggest fan of the gameplay when it was still being developed, I just wanted to know more of the story. But I no longer need it thanks to this beautiful big spoiler :P

Its all fine though! After seeing your piece I feared It will be all over again like Puss in Boots movie were bit by bit I get spoilers of everything until it ruins the fun for me, so in an attempt to battle such I simply got to youtube and next 5 hours at x2 speed watched a full playthrough 100% completion.
Yeah, I honestly don't think I would have enjoyed playing the game, but I'm very satisfied to have watched it all. And even more thankful of your great closure! I craved the same need just now and I get to watch it anytime as long as I'm .. here

Oh no. I haven't beaten the game. I have a bad feeling for this.

My favourite game of this year ever，it is great to see more art about them.

I’m susceptible to such things, but I’d still play the game regardless.

And we all wait for Silksong :3

Definitely one of my favorite games so far. Maybe I just suck, but I have the "Died 1000 times" achievement and I blame the Molerat and Lighthouse Crab boss fights, they were quite frustrating. The bleakness and tragic events may not be for everyone, but I feel it just made the worldbuilding/narrative more believable. History shows that the little guys usually loose, further highlighting Liakas' anger/despair/motivation to keep going.

The end scenes with that song...

Just can't quit listening to it and I've never even played it; the music is quite good. For some reason, the picture of Vix with the bike fox (her mother?) came to mind between your drawing here and having been looking up about a Tale of Tails lore a few days ago.

I love this game and seeing it from someone whose art I love is even better! I don’t usually like a lot of newer games but this one is one of the first in a while that’s made me cry at the end. I’m fully with you in that it’s a must play.

Laika needs more fanart though!!! It seems kinda underground cause I wouldn’t have heard of it if I didn’t find it by this post last month and you can’t really find much on it unless you deliberately look up its name to try and find it.

A lot of Brainwash Gang's games are obscure and basically snuck out the door while nobody was looking. The Longest Road On Earth, Friends vs Friends, Grotto, Mother of Many, Hold A to Drift (...)

It was an exceptional game, unique in every way, its raw and bitter story, without counting the music, *sigh* its beautiful and wonderful music, no game had hit me so hard emotionally.

Beautifull illustration, the game was full off bitter moments and this was a good closure for both of them.

So Puppy did learned to play the ukulele, nice detail.

Just beat this game and can't stop thinking about it. Absolutely loved it. Now I'm gonna listen to the ost for the next few months on repeat.

Thank you so much for this illustration. I have the exact same feeling. I think that the feeling of abrupt loss out of nowhere at the end was probably the point, and I get that it ties in so well with the themes of loss that we the player dont get the closure that the characters are also denied but.... It huuurts.

This makes me feel better.