By Alec Meer on January 12th, 2010 at 12:52 pm.
Today in Cruel, Existentialist Browser Game News is this tragicomic little ditty. It’s free, it’s pretty, it takes about a minute to play, and I really don’t want to spoil it by writing much about it. Life is hard.
I lol’d
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/\ what he said
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charming, like it even though the j&r is lacking finesse.
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Heh, nicely done
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Now THIS is entertainment!
Short, powerful, to the point, I love it!
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I laughed.
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This is RPS the game.
KG
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Not really existential but I like it, it’s Mario meets the Perry Bible Fellowship.
Actually, I’ve just checked, and this is PBF meets Mario;
http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/resources/2007/03/pbfmario.jpg
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Hey, it’s not all that bad. Life, I mean. Is it? :(
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I predict that a lot of bad gaming blog posts with too many big words in them will be written about this game. At least one of them will feature the phrase “gaming’s Citizen Kane”. This will also shortlisted for at least three awards and win will at least one of them.
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And you just made the 1st one of these posts. ;)
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No, I didn’t. I wrote a comment on a gaming blog, that’s not quite the same. I also didn’t use any big words.
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Shortlisted has 11 letters!
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Chuck Norris completed this game unlocking this acchievement and collecting 101/100 of the gems.
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The statement’s made, arguments about gameplay, etc.
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Definitely.
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Wow, that’s the first time I’ve gone “OH GOD! NOOOOOO!” and then burst into apologetic laughter, complete with the odd “Oh nooooo”.
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The story of my exam periods…sorta
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MUST GET COINS >:(
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Needs double jump and a rewind feature.
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No crossbows?!
Great little game.
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I laughed……hard………..
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I think they really screwed up the punchline. Slow-fading text displayed word by word isn’t as instant or rude as that kind of joke needs to be. Same thing with the cliff collapse; just leave your corpse there.
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Aye, true on both counts. Just a courier-font, all-lowercase little epitaph in the corner while he lies there bleeding.
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Hmm I disagree! But I guess I would, wouldn’t I? Thanks for checking it out!
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If you press the S in ‘life is hard’ at the end then it comes up with another level
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This is a lie.
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Jumping off the cliff and ignoring the box is far more satisfying.
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Everyone else got all the coins, right?
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Yeah, you have to go back through after getting the mushroom.
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Thoroughly enjoyed that. Almost like a three-panel cartoon. Nothing too pretentious or knowing, it was just a comedy sketch.`
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I laughed, loudly.
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My flatmate and I lol’d. Quite a funny wee one.
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That’s what your mom said!
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I got so used to not being able to reach anything that I thought the point was to run off the cliff at the end. What does that say about me?
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…oh, it wasn’t?
Yeah, okay, I should play it again.
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Don’t give up so easily! You can do it!
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Honestly it’s because we’ve all just played “Every Day the Same Dream.” Right?
… right?
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That was quite funny. I liked it.
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shortlisted
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That was of course a reply to Okami.
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Haha, awesome. I was not expecting this to show up here! I made this for a friend at work and he liked it so I’m glad other people like it.
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Your comic was pretty enjoyable too. I was rooting for that skeleton.
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Thanks for reading! It’s not over yet, though!
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Congratulations for being featured here. I was laughing out loud at the end.
Your comics are quite good as well. Tomb has a nice twist similar to Life Is Hard. I have added it to my Google Reader and awaiting further updates. :)
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Heh. Yeah. I liked the comic.
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I hear there is DLC planned for this that lowers all the bricks by 25 pixels. Should be about €9.99.
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Pretty much perfect for what it was.
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Anyone else having trouble getting this working on a mac?
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nope.
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lol
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A brilliant little bagatelle, just to the point.
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Needs multiplayer.
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Life has multiplayer?
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They tried giving it MP, but ran into the problem of connections being too weak.
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You are all on drugs.
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I was playing the new Super Mario at a friend’s house yesterday so I’m getting a kick out of these replies…
/I was terrible
//this was fun though
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Love that character style :) Good ol’ Technos!
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Compelling.
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This articles titles is a major spoiler!
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Not bad but it would be better if the difficulty ramped up more gradually. Level 2 is big let down after you make that b*stard split second timing jump to break out of level 1. Nice ironic touch at the end of level 3 though. 7/10
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Not bad but would have been been better if the comedy ramped up more gradually. Sentence 2 is a big let down after you make that b*stard split second realisation to get meaning out of sentence 1. Nice ironic touch at the end of sentence 3 though. 7/10
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Not bad but would have been been better if the meta ramped up more gradually. Comment 2 is a big let down after you make that b*stard split second realisation to get meaning out of comment 1. Nice ironic touch at the end of comment 3 though. 7/10
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Good grief. 7/10
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oh wow
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I agree with that. Life is hard.
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+1 internets for you
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Absolutely wonderful. This is what commercials should be like in the future.
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My life is way harderer than that, it’s not even funny.
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Really very nice site!I have you bookmarked your site.
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