The same is true for doing anything sexy. On the flip side, that kind of stream tends to bring a huge increase in subscribers all at once - so you have to determine whether or not a quick increase to those all-important numbers is worth a hit to her reputation. If you decide to indulge her interest in conspiracy theories, for example, her “Rabbit Hole” stat starts to increase, and the higher that increases, the larger the penalty there is to the number of subscribers she gains from a stream, reflecting the fact that people online have heard about her interest in “weird” things and hesitate to check her out accordingly. Particularly early in the game, performing various actions for the first time allows Ame to come up with ideas for streams, and by following through on those ideas she can develop her own skills, knowledge and reputation.Īn interesting part of this is the fact that not all of these “skills” are positive things.
Some of these are explicitly detailed in the game’s “Task Manager” - here you can keep an eye on Ame’s stress level, affection for you and “mental darkness”, as well as her all-important subscriber count - while others become apparent as you take various actions. Only here, you’re not making a schedule for yourself you are, instead, making a schedule for Ame-chan and her Internet persona - though most of the things you suggest Ame-chan does usually end up involving you in one way or another, too.Įvery choice you make in Needy Streamer Overload has an impact on a number of different statistics. Mechanically speaking, it has more in common with classic dating sims like True Love ’95, in that the majority of your input into the game involves making a schedule for the main character. What’s interesting about Needy Streamer Overload is that it’s by no means a hands-off visual novel. It captures the hopes, fears, dreams and nightmares of a perpetually online generation - and it does so in a thought-provoking way that neither idolises nor censures.
For now, though, I wanted to talk a bit about my first impressions of the game - because this really is a well-crafted piece of interactive fiction that has been released at pretty much the exact right time. We’ll return to Needy Streamer Overload for some additional analysis once I’ve actually played it through a few times, since it seems there are a large number of endings with some drastically different outcomes.
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