7/24/2023 0 Comments Izzy and pupperazziYou are a giant camera with noodly arms and legs and robotic hands. The weirdest moment of all was when I realised that you do not play a photographer in Pupperazzi. And then, mere yards away, I photographed a sausage dog who was sitting in front of an easel doing a lovely painting. Like the children's playground pictured above, where everything has a load of dogs on it, perched there like so many pigeons about to fuck you up in a phone box. It is especially unnerving in the bits where they're just waiting for you, as a player, to interact with them. If you get close enough, their heads swivel towards you. There are just loads of dogs everywhere, which, yeah, is good on paper, but sometimes you walk into an area and they're all just looking at you. Mainly, though, I get a powerful bang of Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds off it. Did they dig up a dinosaur? Are the dogs eating dinosaurs? Oh god, the shop just sells piles of giant, huge bones. Amazing! Haha, this one is on the till at a shop and - oh. That's great! Who doesn't like dogs with jobs? This one is running a food stand and wearing a little hat. For example, often you will see dogs with jobs. But it is the juxtaposition with the wholesome presentation that, perhaps, makes some things seem haunting and strange to me. And there are lots of things in Pupperazzi that are genuinely wholesome. I am aware that I find things creepy when they're not meant to be. Despite this carefree, playful tone, I also find it unaccountably sinister. The colourful, chunky art, combined with deliberately stiff animation where nobody can move their joints, really reminds me of Playmobil toys. You post your photos to a kind of dog-centric Instagram for likes and comments (possibly from dogs possibly from humans). You can pet dogs to make them happy, or find toys to make them do different things: turn on a radio and any furry pals nearby bust out some truly astonishing moves throw a stick to initiate a huge game of fetch. It's a really nice playground that facilitates the player's own creativity. In return for this you get golden bones as a form of currency to buy different kinds of film, or weird lenses, to kick your photography into the next gear. The old sea-dog at the beach would like a photo of any dog, as long as the lighthouse is in the background. An extreme sports dog wants a picture of a dog riding a scooter. You go around several areas that increase in complexity and dog saturation, completing photo challenges and unlocking more and more complex areas. ![]() They are, as is traditional, very cute dogs. ![]() Pupperazzi is a game about taking pictures of dogs.
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