I agree with you completely here!
It's pretentious to the point of frustration, and I only ended my playtime at the START of the second level. I wanted to support the developers that fled from Clover Studios that had a hand in creating this product, but it's just so rife with dreadfully dull narrative, and visuals that are more jarring than elegant. This kind of game reminds me exactly why I also don't care for Suda 51 and his antics. Though I REALLY enjoy the oddity and risk involved in creating games that are not in any way typically commercial, they STILL have to feature gameplay that's comprehensible in a sense. These developers lose grasp of that in search of some sort of artistic circle jerk that inevitably turns an interesting ideal into a product of unplayable mush.
[quote name='AwRy108']Finally sat down to play this today, and couldn't make it past the second Chapter: the levels are too long and tedious, and the story--which has a ton of potential--is told in such an absurd and convoluted way that every new piece of it leaves you scratching your head. The story is so goofy and abstract that it leaves the player with zero attachment to the main character; and then it becomes difficult to power through the tedious gameplay.
Really disappointed in this one, thought for sure I'd really enjoy it. Got it for $20, wish it had been $10 or less...[/QUOTE]