Alright Imma say it. PTOLEMY and LikesBlondes were never any good and people look at their games with rose tinted glasses, because pornographic and romantic gratification can be strong appeasers. Whenever the peepee doesn't go hard, the low quality of their games becomes offensively obvious.
Every single character these guys have ever written has the exact same personality and mannerisms, like e.g. barking very short sentences and constantly repeating questions back at each other. What's supposed to count as characterisations in their games are random OOC bouts of motivation to move the plot forward at random times.
Tell me how to even tell PTOLEMY and LikesBlondes apart, even for their games they supposedly didn't work on together (Viitgames also has a suspiciously similar style; they wouldn't be the first to triple dip on Patreon). If it was just one guy shitting out content at a rapid pace, we'd have an explanation for the quality of their games.
It's all so bland. We get a more or less interesting premise and then a string of seemingly unmotivated plot points that leave you scratching your head. The visuals consist of dead-eyed mannequins in random copy/pasted poses simply spat on a background, as if staging is a foreign concept.
Now we have this game here "Expectations", which has the same unskilled and outdated visuals, but doesn't even have a premise. Here's how this game goes throughout:
Take a look at this kitchen from a very specific but randomly chosen angle. "Gotta go to school."
BOOM! Have a picture of a chalkboard. "This is boring, let's go home."
Hmm, I guess this would count as a picture of a living room with a couch and stuff, so we're now at home I guess.
"Hey."
"Hi."
"Have you seen landlady?"
"Landlady?"
"Yes."
"I've seen her around."
"Around."
"How are you doing?"
"Fine."
"You look pale."
"Pale?"
"Gotta go."
Picture of a bedroom. Picture of a kitchen. Chalkboard. Couch. Kitchen. Bedroom. Disorienting amish guy jump scare! Kitchen. Chalkboard. A random parking lot appears, maybe we're still in front of the school? Livingroom. Bedroom. Chalkboard. Oh wait, the same parking lot now belongs to a completely new place! etc. etc. plus sprinkles of "He He..." and creepy facial expressions that put their game Rebirth into a new light, because I always thought these expressions were supposed to be a vampire thing.
