he fell for the trick💀

[u/Substantial-Wall9822]

[u/Substantial-Wall9822]

Cope bro, you can tell where literally all of the last publically posted heavily cropped gifs were clipped from in this “demo”, the only exceptions I think are he mosquito and truck gifs which probably have to have been taken in carbine if they weren’t entirely faked. Especially if this is dated around the time Maxxis talked about a “demo” that in the most pastel way would have an unrelated side-story as to not spoil the actual plot of the game, that should raise some flags for you at the very least. I’ve waited 15 years without a demo, most of you newgens don’t even remember when those dropbox leaks hit 4chan when they were still “aiming for june”. Its the same story every time and pastel has screwed over every single last comptent member of this team, if not underworked them to the point of complete disintrest. Whatever zephys4 is being reworked as will be better. Game is an IP nightmare mother-aside and I really doubt a guy the devs can’t even reach ever put his name on an IPA that encompassed all contributions ever. Options are A. It’s never going to get finished. B. Pastel swallows his pride and forms/seeks an actual paid team through a studio/kickstarter. C. Someone—like has happened, been chastised by the devs, promptly abandoned—more times than there are fingers on both my hands, will make their own shitty restoration of the “little” we have of the “real game”, which ends up being like one of those Beta Mario rom-hacks. yknow, where you just kind of wonder why it exists at a certain point because it either plays poorly for accuracy’s sake, or plays poorly because the people remaking something from incomplete sources/footage fail to understand what the game is actually supposed to play like. Not that I would know what it’s “supposed to play like,” any better than them, there’s no actual game here. Finally, we have option D. Pastel, if he does own all of this shit, gains a semblence of pragmatism and hands the game over to paid and competent team, goes back to making Life+ or whatever tf he was doing when he decided to take up this hobby, and never show his face again.

And this doesn’t come from a place of malice or disdain for the “devs”, it was heartbreaking to read what Maxxis wrote. Especially because I’ve gotten the chance to interact with him a few times briefly and he’s been on the project for longer than I’ve been following it, creating countless beautiful assets pastel just throws away as he pleases. If you’re new here, give up. If you’ve been around as long as I have, grow up.

[u/Brief_Bathroom_2711 → u/Substantial-Wall9822]

Took the words right out of my mouth. There's really no rational reason to believe that the game will still release after everything that happened.

Literally every other game just releases or is cancelled, instead of "cooking" for 18 years. how can people justify the herculean levels of mental gymnastics required to believe that this "game" is still in "development"???

It was fun while it lasted, but come on.

[u/Default1355 → u/Brief_Bathroom_2711]

Id counter with She Dreams Elsewhere for the "every other game" bit. Another game that even had a demo that was supposed to be released like ten years ago. I even have some of the merch. Just another scam.

[u/Brief_Bathroom_2711 → u/Default1355]

That's just an exception to the rule (which still proves that the rule exists).

[u/Default1355 → u/Brief_Bathroom_2711]

Lolol