3DC

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this is the most broken game I have ever played on my stream. I somehow accessed some kind of debugging menu and managed to get a 3D camera in a 2D section almost immediately. the game breaks and forced you to alt+f4 constantly. I don't think I was ever able to go from one section to the next without the game skipping ahead a bunch of segments or soft locking me, but luckily you can chapter select any part of the game. advancing the text will lock you into dialog with characters you are nowhere near, keeping you from moving, then sometimes the game will teleport you around. this also happens in your dreams and you can't move or proceed in either of them. on top of that the moral of the game seems real weird, like my character gets mad he can't beat a videogame and lets it affect his mood outside of the moment. he gets so bent out of shape about it he starts taking literal psychic damage and has a headache and has to lie down. also you have the option to just keep your emotions bottled up and not talk to your moms about it and the game seems to play out the same regardless. what I'm saying is this is top kusoge, real fun mess.

For an educational adventure with multiple mini-games, story progression and plenty of opportunities to interact with Dante and his family, 3DC is surprisingly barebones on Steam. There are no Steam achievements, despite obvious milestones such as completing the different activities, learning about the symptoms and risk factors, helping Dante and finishing the story. The educational message is worthwhile, but the actual gameplay is extremely simple and feels more like an educational demonstration than a fully developed adventure game. As a free title it has some value as an educational tool, but achievement hunters have nothing to work towards.

"3DC" is an extremely badly made, hamfisted attempt from an unqualified, self appointed healthcare professional to shove their own interpretation of mental health issues such as depression at children. If I was a parent, I wouldn't let my kids near this Spanish snake oil pusher. Certainly, this is barely, if at all a game, it's just a delivery mechanism for armchair psychology. Trying to address serious issues such as mental and emotional health through the medium of video games is misguided and can be harmful. While it's plausible to suggest the intention was noble, this can do more harm than good. The "developer" here is not a professional in areas of mental health and social problems, and when they use video games to pretend they are, this is not only utterly ineffective, it can be harmful. It's my opinion that it's improper to use video games to address mental health issues. Apart from the harm such hamfisted attempts at addressing social problems can cause, this offers zero benefit to PC gamers. People suffering from health issues or other social problems should seek out professional help rather than going to crap shovelware video games attempting to get attention/fam…

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