Have you ever wondered what living as Pewdiepie would be like? Or starting up a youtube career from the ground up, grinding away as you pump out content and generate popularity on your way to stardom in a video game? well here you go, now you can play a video game about playing video games and recording them (That’s some real inception there, actually you’re reading an article on a video game about playing video games and recording them for other people to watch).

Regardless of the “has science/technology gone too far” references I could make here, this game was actually amazing in almost every aspect of it, the gameplay can get a little grindy but the rewards you get such as moving into new apartments and upgrading your gear and unlocking stat upgrades for you channel, I mean to be honest though the level system as far as I could tell did jack all.

There was a time management aspect that had you balancing your study, making videos and sleeping and eating, even though not studying really held no consequences other than your mom not giving you pocket money and yelling at you (pretty much like real life…) meaning you were free to record videos of you playing a crappy 2000’s game on your toaster of a pc with a webcam that has quality of 15 pixels and the comments section of your videos usually had people saying stuff like “If this is a youtuber then I’m batman” and other bad jokes like these, The quotes and genres of video games was funny until you had seen every reference and joke.

Then the game even gives you options to purchase new clothes and consoles and oddly enough you could buy furniture. I never actually bothered to do that, I was too busy upgrading my toaster so I could render videos longer than 2 mins and have special effects on them so I could hide how crap my content was.

I mean something must of worked because after a few videos uploaded to youtube I had a few happy fans and an unhappy mother who gave up on my education. I also made revenue from videos of about $3 and proceeded to go mow some lawns so I could buy the newest “Fire of duty 3” for my toaster.

Eventually I was kicked out of my house for supposedly “doing shit all and eating all her food”. Anyway my youtube channel is growing and I got a new webcam where you can actually see how my pretty face when my character remembers to edit the facecam in there. The game kind of runs on an energy system where if you are hungry or tired you don’t get as quality videos, and the editing process is amplified by the better rig. It’s not very realistic considering buying a new mouse and keyboard usually does not warrant me some background music and a intro on my videos but oh well.

I made a few friends too and to my surprise this game has a god damn relationship system. In my opinion I would have rather had graphics that didn’t look like the Simpsons Hit and Run video game, rather than the option to talk up girls at a bar. Anyway I grinded away at buying new games and pumping out content and grew my subscribers over 50k. I was pretty happy with myself having built my channel up to the point that I can do a photo-shoot whenever I go to enter the theatre?

I eventually moved out of my crap apartment with my friend and I declined his offer to move in with me (He had a hissy fit and dissed all my videos comment sections for a week), to be honest my new place was slick and I had other plans anyway. I jumped on my pc and ordered a sweet suit and some shades for an upcoming party, met this girl and took her out to a movie the next day.

Wasn’t long until we were dating (seriously why is this a feature not the sims) and my channel had over 1 million views, I blew all my money on a new pc and a mic that made me sound like Morgan freeman. I was literally about to upload my latest unboxing of a brand new pc game when this notification pops up in the middle of my screen “Game over” and I just titled my head to the side with my mouth slightly open as I muttered something a little bit rude to most.

Up until this point this game had been great, the gameplay has flaws and the graphics was not even close to today’s standards but I was having fun gathering my subscribers and moving up in the world. I muted the music and put some of my own music on, yet this one crucial failure means I will never touch this game again. I had blew all my money on this new video game and my new suit and my fancy girl with blue hair I picked up last night, and I could not pay my rent and that was it “GAME OVER” wtf?

I attempted to load my game up again only to be thrown into the same instance where the “GAME OVER” text pops up and I felt played, it was filthy like your uncle slipping a hand onto your butt or playing sakura clicker with your volume up high by accident.

I mean if you’re better with money than me and don’t forget your rent costs $340 dollars at the end of the month (seriously there is no indicator on when you should pay it) and if you enjoy playing the Sims combined with game dev tycoon and minor puzzle elements with RNG, then go ahead buddy no one’s stopping you. But if you want at least some shaders and high quality graphics or some non-flawed gameplay with really awesome elements then these are not the droids you are looking for (if you don’t get this reference which movie hating rock have you been under?) to be honest, It’s such a shame I lost my 4 hours of gameplay to some weird random “GAME OVER” man.

4/10