This seemingly goofy adventure game, inspired by Earthbound, Guitar Hero, and Katamari Damacy, hides a disturbingly deep anxiety under its bubbly surface. It's a slow-burning journey that explores themes of legacy, imposter syndrome, and the pressures of self-creation.
For a good chunk of my young-adult life, I was obsessed with the idea of creating my masterpiece. It’s not even that I wanted to create a great work of art with something to say; I felt I had to. My fear of death led me to believe that I needed to find a way to leave a lasting legacy behind, like the filmmakers and playwrights I revered at the time. While that feeling dissipated in later years, it reformed as a constant imposter syndrome that I still grapple with from time to time.
Recommended Videos Spiraling out of orbit Starstruck: Hands of Time begins in a playful fashion. An astronaut travels back to the past after the Earth of the future is overtaken by a mysterious mold. With the help of their cheerful robo companion, they head back to the past to find the source of this sludge. That takes them to an unassumingly small town inhabited by a happy-go-lucky kid named Edwin.
The more Starstruck sets up its story, the more light-hearted it becomes. When I get to the venue for my show, I’m introduced to an entire Guitar Hero-type rhythm game where I play along to songs . It’s a messy minigame due to some hard-to-parse guitar riffs and sloppy controller integration, but it’s another callback that puts me into a time and place. I’m once again in the mindset of a young adult wondering when my life is going to begin in between Freebird solos.
There’s no way to easily describe what unfolds in Starstruck’s back half; you’ll really have to see it for yourself to fully soak in its overwhelming panic attack. A cute adventure veers into eldritch horror territory as each character succumbs to their anxieties. The cheery visuals give way to avant-garde eeriness, in a turn that calls Neon Genesis Evangelion’s striking midseason direction shift to mind.
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