Game
MountBound
2 months ago

After doing some research, MountBound is like YIIK but not pretentious?


I've been thinking about it recently, and it has me wondering. I do not like YIIK in the slightest because, in my opinion, it looks like mobile game shovelware, but with stiff animations.

MountBound and YIIK have a lot in common: post-modernism and vaporwave with a 90s game-inspired retro art style.

The difference between them is rather large, however.

"YIIK: A Postmodern RPG" tries too hard to be profound that it comes off as pretentious.

MountBound, however, both pokes fun at and embraces vaporwave, surrealism, post-modernism, and whatever else you'd want to call it.

In other words, MountBound isn't pretentious, it just uses a lot of irony to be funny. YIIK overdoes everything MountBound is and it comes off as a pretentious and even offensively bad waste of time, all in the pursuit of trying to make some profound message that isn't clear.

If you took a close look at both the MB and YIIK posters, you'd see what I'm talking about.

3


2 comments

Loading...

Next up

gangster spamton is literally me

Platforming! Leaps of faith not included.

spamtom and sans in the style of MB field sprites

skeletons dont have eyelids

old mb screenie

dont worry, i've made a lot of progress, mostly in adding improvements to make it stand above most rpg maker gmaes also larry CANONICALLY would say trans rights

since deltarune released today, here is a shitpost image i made a while ago showing who the MB characters replace in the context of an undertale au (mb was once named random roles and was a terrible ut au)

Greg Jeffery

DELTARUNE TODAY!?!?!

the cover art for the soundtrack