It’s not a satisfying loop, mainly because it’s a bit abstract what constitutes a successful video.
So you make videos based on what everyone is talking about, you get money from those videos in varying amounts of success, and you can use that money to buy more stuff to make more videos. Absolutely nothing about this character model screams PewDiePie to me. You can explore the city, eating noodles, purchasing the coolest stuff and holding them at arms length like a stinky, sick-filled backpack. The gameplay largely revolves around filming videos (obviously) sharing trendy things on Instagram, and schmoozing vapid characters. The eternal question of whether or not YouTubers Life 2 is satire or not does not warrant personal investigation. If this is starting to sound slightly fascinating to you, I would warn against it. If this doesn’t sound like dystopian fiction to you, I don’t know what would. It’s compounded with the games new setting – an entire city built to nurture the best and brightest YouTubers. If you don’t, you’re just not going to get anywhere in YouTubers Life 2, and that’s just a super bleak message. Forging your own trail as a creator will get you nowhere – while you can chase the trends however you like, with gameplay videos, live-streaming or reaction content, you’ll always have to chase those trends. To keep it brief, this is a game about following trends rather than setting them. Vibrant, cartoonish graphics do little to mask what is a very cold and callous content creator simulator, and it’s impossible to discern whether or not we’re playing probably the highest form of satire possible or something so utterly tone-deaf it doesn’t realise what it’s doing.
Like all the life decisions that have led you to this moment, hunched over in front of a screen, watching a tiny game character hunch over a screen too.Īs I’ve covered previously in this feature, YouTubers Life 2 is both cutesy and horrifying. Not just the quality of the game you’re playing, not just the concept of feedback loops in gaming keeping your attention focused on something crap yet shiny for hours on end. There comes a time in every YouTubers Life 2 playthrough where you begin doubting things.
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