dog of dracula (Team Batsu)

Posted by on January 31, 2013

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dog of dracula (ドラキュラの犬) is an otaku noir nakige about a groomer stuck in a sauceless city, developed by major depressive auteurs team batsu as part of their class project on marxist theory – [Author’s description]

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28 Comments.

  1. Justin January 31, 2013 at 11:42 pm

    I think you might have found the ultimate videogame.

  2. shaun February 1, 2013 at 1:47 am

    oh my god what

  3. Channing February 1, 2013 at 5:51 am

    great game. note: it was weird seeing my friend robin pop up as a visual gag 😳

  4. eagles February 1, 2013 at 7:45 am

    Having trouble with the windows zip, 7zip says Unsupported Compression Method. Anybody else have this problem?

  5. Terry February 1, 2013 at 1:14 pm

    I’m only a few minutes into it, but it’s pretty amazing so far!

  7. ryan February 2, 2013 at 7:30 am

    the compression error is something with 7zip i guess. if you have winrar use that to open it, otherwise there’s a mirror on the site that i’m told works with 7zip. sorry about that

    ps thanks for featuring my dumb thing. i had to google to figure out where the hits were coming from, what a pleasant surprise!!

  8. moses February 2, 2013 at 4:13 pm

    I was grinning like an idiot the entire time I was playing this game. Hard to pinpoint what exactly makes it so effortlessly endearing – I mean, there are many things – the slapstick is great, the music’s lovely, the dog is adorable, the whole game is just an energetic whirlwind of visual witticisms and delightful touches. But I think the real goodness comes from how confidently it flirts with the boundary between authenticity and kitsch… every scene is so well-rendered in the language of camp and irony that it makes the moments of cold, stark drama all the more horrific and powerful.

    There is so much meta-commentary here on the magic of video games – the way we surrender ourselves to falsehoods and fragile façades – but none of it is didactic. It’s wry… almost buried in self-referential humor, but nonetheless relentlessly honest. I’d recommend this to anyone. It works on almost every level on which a game can work.

  9. prunescholar February 2, 2013 at 7:03 pm

    Like Moses, I really dig the way all the different elements work together in the game, it’s rather charming. Shame about all the fat jokes, those kinda spoilt the mood for me.

  10. 400cats February 3, 2013 at 4:23 am

    Karl’s projector has ALL MY JAMS

  11. nachobeard February 3, 2013 at 11:14 pm

    I… I…
    whatever, this is great.

  12. Bob February 3, 2013 at 11:15 pm

    THIS GAME IS AMAZING. I AM GOING TO LAVISH IN A BATH OF SAUCE NOW. THANK YOU

  13. Richard February 4, 2013 at 2:05 am

    This is beautiful.

  14. Slapsah February 5, 2013 at 4:38 pm

    Recorded gameplay of this at youtube with commentary. Check it out if you want to 😛

  15. Ellie February 9, 2013 at 1:34 am

    I’m in love.

  16. Phack February 13, 2013 at 6:17 pm

    Oh no, the Windows link’s been killed!