{"id":16903,"date":"2024-12-17T15:39:16","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T14:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/17\/mouthwashing-review-2024s-most-difficult-game-but-not-in-the-way-you-might-expect\/"},"modified":"2024-12-17T15:39:16","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T14:39:16","slug":"mouthwashing-review-2024s-most-difficult-game-but-not-in-the-way-you-might-expect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/17\/mouthwashing-review-2024s-most-difficult-game-but-not-in-the-way-you-might-expect\/","title":{"rendered":"Mouthwashing review \u2013 2024\u2019s most difficult game, but not in the way you might expect"},"content":{"rendered":"

PC; Creative Reflex\/Wrong Organ
<\/strong>The word \u2018challenge\u2019 has an accepted meaning in the world of video games, but in this engrossing sci-fi horror it\u2019s the subject matter that\u2019s confronting<\/p>\n

It is perhaps poetic that throughout this year, the 30th anniversary of the PlayStation<\/a>, developers have found such a rich vein of horror in early 3D visuals. Crow Country<\/a>, Fear the Spotlight<\/a> and now Mouthwashing all make terrifying use of low-poly characters, smeared textures and muted colour palettes to generate dread and abjection \u2013 and in this sci-fi odyssey from Wrong Organ they\u2019re also brilliantly utilised to symbolise complete psychological breakdown.<\/p>\n

The setup to Mouthwashing is simple and familiar: when a hulking spacecraft crashes in a remote part of the galaxy, the small crew slowly goes insane waiting for a rescue that is never going to come. Not helping matters is their cargo: millions of gallons of high-alcohol mouthwash \u2013 which very quickly gets abused by the desperate and deeply flawed castaways.<\/p>\n

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\nPC; Creative Reflex\/Wrong OrganThe word \u2018challenge\u2019 has an accepted meaning in the world of video games, but in this engrossing sci-fi horror it\u2019s the subject matter that\u2019s confronting
\nIt is perhaps poetic that throughout this year, the 30th anniversary of the PlayStation, developers have found such a rich vein of horror in early 3D visuals. Crow Country, Fear the Spotlight and now Mouthwashing all make terrifying use of low-poly characters, smeared textures and muted colour palettes to generate dread and abjection \u2013 and in this sci-fi odyssey from Wrong Organ they\u2019re also brilliantly utilised to symbolise complete psychological breakdown.
\nThe setup to Mouthwashing is simple and familiar: when a hulking spacecraft crashes in a remote part of the galaxy, the small crew slowly goes insane waiting for a rescue that is never going to come. Not helping matters is their cargo: millions of gallons of high-alcohol mouthwash \u2013 which very quickly gets abused by the desperate and deeply flawed castaways. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PC; Creative Reflex\/Wrong OrganThe word \u2018challenge\u2019 has an accepted meaning in the world of video games, but in this engrossing sci-fi horror it\u2019s the subject matter that\u2019s confronting It is perhaps poetic that throughout this year, the 30th anniversary of the PlayStation, developers have found such a rich vein of horror in early 3D visuals. …<\/p>\n

Mouthwashing review \u2013 2024\u2019s most difficult game, but not in the way you might expect<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16903"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}