I approve of Rental, and their zine
The game itself is a nice intersection of cute (bunny girl Mui’s solemn face, you know how rabits kind of look serious all the time, because they’re always alert to being eaten?) and spooky (you are trapped in a house with some kind of ghost watching you). The theme of the original game jam was the 90s, and Rental has, for example, the fixed camera you loved fromResident Evil, just they are in a small cute holiday home and trained on a bunny rabbit. It’s in glorious 4:3, which I have preserved above instead of cropping out the black bars. And it’s all fuzzy, like an old VHS. Lovely stuff. To escape the house you have to collect a bunch of crosses, candles and some Catholic icons - Mui does not understand any of them, which is great - to perform a ritual. This also involves going into a secret room thatreallyconfused me for a while.
It feels like an evolution of the whole ‘allow clips to circulate on YouTube for free and it boosts DVD sales!’. But on the other hand, what, are you supposed to gamble your income on how many chuds will pay youafterthey’ve played your game? And on a third hand,maybe you just can’t afford to buy stuff? Hence my interest in the numbers. FWIW, I definitely think Rental was work my three quid. Related: as reported earlier,Content Warning launched freefor the first day or so as well. Something else to keep an eye on.
