This game is so entertaining and one of the best things I've played in 2023, I cannot recommend it enough. I've seen very few people talk about this game which is a genuine shame. The variety of mechanics and gameplay styles easily put this game as innovative as the likes of INSIDE, but with a much more lighthearted tone. It has an amazing voice acting cast as well, starring Yuri Lowenthal (Spiderman 1 & 2), Krizia Bajos (Cyberpunk, League of Legends) and Cissy Jones (Firewatch!!). The game is genuinely great and I recommend trying it for yourself if you enjoy this video

Not going to lie. "what if the Epcot Walt Disney originally planned, was made into a larger version of the Truman show" is a fun idea.

One thing I'll admittedly took me a bit too long to realize is that Angela and Trevor were mirroring early and modern time periods. Trevor is a middle-aged, young adult male who dresses like he lives in the 70's and prefers not to cause a fuss at his generic office job while doing everything he can to keep his head down. Angela is a latina young adult female with dyed hair, who works for what she thought was an activist group, and openly crap-talks her superiors. This even reflects in their gameplay while Trevor is a classic 2-d platformer (who even mentions that he loves arcade games) Angela is a 1st person puzzle solver which has actually become exceedingly popular with VR. There's also kind of an interesting parallel between individualism and collectivism. Trevor is referred to as a boring person who single handedly escapes from Arcadia and frees everyone. For crying out loud, the dream sequence at the Drive-In literally shows him singlehandedly freeing everyone from Arcadia by pushing a button. Meanwhile Angela just views herself as another person in an activist group who is just doing what she can to help. And the game ends with them learning to find a happy medium. Trevor mentions that he could've never done it without Angela and how Angela realizes she could make a bigger impact than she thought she could.

1:43:29 “ruuun Flanders ruuuun” in the chat is the funniest thing they could’ve possibly written and I love the devs for it.

I love the fact that the ending, for the most part plays it straight.
Walton goes unpunished, and hell, even finds success in the actions that happened.

This game is probably one of the best meta games I’ve seen in a while that’s really immersive doesn’t make things cringey, especially with its real depiction of this game’s version of Twitch Chat.

But hey, at least RT isn’t a subject to this kind of experiment where thousands of people watch him play games and let people know he used to be called the Drift King back in college on a daily basis 🙂

I literally just realized that in the beginning, it says "Solano Hills Productions" (0:27) and in the credits it says that Trevor and Angela used money from suing Walton Media to make that same company.

One thing I love about this game his how it captures the look of the 1970's Disney futurism aesthetic, I've always thought that kind of setting would be great for a game.

Fun thing I noticed: Angela's fake name while going on vacation to Arcadia is Sylvia Lauren, which is both the real and fake name of the lady on The Truman Show who Truman fell in love with and helped get him out.

Good news, they updated the game so you can now boop the cat on the nose.

Reminder: this isnt just fantastical. Walt Disney the real human person wanted to make epcot a real city, where appliances and homes would be regularly renovated and updated with prototypes of the latest products from their sponsors. It was for all intents and purposes supposed to be a company town, where anyone unable to work would be evicted, but the residents would also have to serve double duty as entertainers as the true main source of revenue would be tourism from the people visiting both epcot and disney world. The only reason epcot didnt end up a city was because Walt Disney died before he could see it through, and pretty much all of his buisness associates saw the problems with trying to run a city like that

Man my favorite is when Trevor was talking to the audience and one man goes "Let him cook"
This game better not age quickly.

“Average White Guy Experiencing The Horrors” is my favorite game genre

Edit: This goes for pretty much every average dude tbh

It's crazy how this game started out as a basic re-tred of the Truman Show, then turned into a whole new thing with themes relevant to the modern day obsession with viewership.

god, the credits as the game ended.... "the jingle has been declared legal by the supreme court" is PAINFULLY goddamn real. wow. they did not pull their punches

1:37:50, I just realized after a second watch that this is the moment Vivian aka Number 6 inserted her own part of the jingle, without it Trevor would just escape instead of trying to be a hero and save the city.

For anyone who was in the stream, you will know how much twitch chat freaked out because how accurate the in game chat at the end was

In the immortal words of that one Arcadia chatter:
"7.8/10 - too much police"

This chat had no right to be that well done. Even including the correct current time to completely shatter the 4th wall. It was literally perfection

Trevors ranking is 23409th.. vivian says there are 23414 arcadian citizens. So trevor is the fifth lowest ranked person. That is almost impressive

I love how the moment Dan noticed he was also 28, the entire game became a comparison to his own life and made the whole experience that much more relatable