Yawning my way through 'Death and Taxes'

in Hive Gaming5 years ago

Every so often I get the urge to look through the Daily Discovery Queue that Steam gives me in the hope something interesting will smack me in the face.

Over the years lots of things have smacked me in the face! My Wish List has 150 odd games in it thanks to the Daily Discovery, aaaannnd most of them are games I may have been interested in six years ago but couldn't care less about now. 🤷‍♀

Today Death and Taxes smacked me in the face. It looked interesting, was cheap enough to shrug my shoulders at, had a cascade of positive reviews, and most importantly of all: it could definitely run on my potatoey laptop.

Death and Taxes, currently 25% off on Steam

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It started off promising.

Fate performed some dastardly alchemy and created me, The Grim Reaper, and delivered me unto a life of death and servitude.

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And I was pleased that I actually got to customise my Grim Reaper! 😁

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Now that my Grim Reaper had been born and customised, it was time to speak with my new boss: my creator, Fate himself.

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There was a bit of humour in the dialogue and I was suitably amused.

I took upon my Grim Reaper the persona of an, "Eh, whatever. Kill the humans! I don't care as long as I get paid," type of skeleton and so began my initiation into a 'life' of office monotony, deciding the lives and deaths of those who found their paperwork dumped upon my desktop.

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I thought that the game was intriguing at first.

I read everyone's little descriptions, followed Fate's directive, and even visited my old piratey matey down in the shop to purchase a plethora of new customisations for my Grim Reaper.

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I particularly liked becoming Cthulhu for a couple of days before switching to a Plague Doctor, a cat person, a jackal person... I tried them all out.

The customisations were clearly my favourite part of the game.

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But I found that I didn't care about the cases being presented to me, unlike similar games like Papers, Please or Don't Feed the Monkeys.

In Papers, Please significant attention was required to make certain you were performing correctly or else you fail the glorious Arstotzka and thus fail yourself and your family. The people who came through your border checkpoint were mostly interesting and you HAD to pay attention to them.

In Don't Feed the Monkeys you have a vested interested in those random people you're watching through the surveillance cameras. You can interact with them if you choose, or just watch them; either way: they're interesting! And you get to feel like a bona fide voyeur. 😂

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Nothing matters in Death and Taxes, really.

It got to the point where I was really only marking people to live or die solely because that was Fate's decree. (Just like real life, I guess?)

About halfway through I stopped even reading the things and just clicked randomly, hoping the faster I clicked the faster the "game" would end and I could go back to doing other things. (Also just like real life, I guess?)

I couldn't even visit the bar that the other Reapers and Angels were chillin' in!

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Finally I was tasked with killing the last human on earth and there was much rejoicing!!

At last, it was over!

Blah. I was so glad it was over.

There's an option for a New Game+ and I don't know if I want to even bother with it. Apparently there are different endings and things...

But, eh.

The game is a right boring slog, and I'm disappointed.

 

Until next time,


Thanks for stopping by! 🙃

 


Screenshots courtesy of @Kaelci, from the "game": Death and Taxes

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I have been eyeing this game as well... Don't think I will get it after this.

 5 years ago  

I really wouldn't recommend it. 🙂 Of course that's my personal opinion though!

hoping the faster I clicked the faster the "game" would end and I could go back to doing other things.

At ^this point I thought you were talking about real life, doing other things in real life. Then I continued reading XD

Good thing I read your post. I was interested in this one too but not so sure despite the "Very positive" reviews it gets.

 5 years ago  

I read both positive and negative reviews before getting a game, but the positive reviews seemed pretty solid for this one. After playing though, I went back to the negative reviews and nodded in agreement.

There's only about 60 negative compared to 700 positive, but I really feel the negatives and wouldn't recommend this game. 🙂