I'm O.K.: A Murder Simulator
Consisting of 3 alcoholics and a foreign exchange student, Thompsonsoft is a new game company formed around the singular idea that Jack Thompson is the most brilliant game designer in the universe. After reading "A Modest Video Game Proposal", we formed this company to create any game that Jack Thompson designed. Our first title, "I'm OK", is based on Jack's masterful design from "A Modest Video Game Proposal" and it's a murder simulator so cruel, so bloodthirsty, so horrifyingly violent that it makes Grand Theft Auto seem like Sunday Funday. How does one explain why, in a world overflowing with disease, war, and other horrifying realities, a man would spend 18 years crusading against video games? Easy. You say that it's the most extensive, ingenious marketing campaign for a video game in the history of MAN.
The game is a sidescrolling beat 'em up, with gameplay and cutscenes styled after SNES-era games. Visually, the pixel art and animation is actually very good. Be warned: this game is pretty out there. In addition to controls for moving, jumping, and attacking, there's one for urinating. With that in mind, the sequence immediately after beating the first boss is...well, it's surreal. Probably not work safe.
In other news, hundreds of gamers recently sent Thompson a bouquet of flowers with a letter apologizing for crude threats from other gamers and requesting a reasonable and well-intentioned dialogue regarding the video game violence issue. Today, Thompson forwarded the flowers to Take-Two president Paul Eibeler, claiming that they are a form of harassment on the part of people indirectly instigated by Take-Two.
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Ahahahaha I love this back and forth. It's entertaining, and this game looks fun.