Stressful Joe
by BelowTheGame
Stressful Joe
Tags for Stressful Joe
Description
A game about a normal guy too stressed to go on, so he must face his worst demons
How to Play
you move with the arrows rotation in one or another direction, and shoot with space bar
With the power level at max, you can shoot endlessly, after activating with the key F
Comments
TheGammaGeek
Aug. 26, 2015
I agree with BigJohnnyDisco. Not only is it slow, quickly boring, and unimaginative, but it in no way shape or form actually has anything to do with schizophrenia and seems to rely on negative stereotypes for any sort of "interest value". Not only that, but you imply (correct me if I'm wrong) that he's "normal" and just flips into a crazy mode when stressed. Mental illnesses of this nature don't work like this, and further strengthens the common misconception that mental illness can be easily flipped on and off.
You could have made something so cool and tasteful and still made it about schizophrenia without resorting to further encouraging stigma and stereotypes that schizophrenic people are crazy. And yes, I know this is going to get downvoted to hell because I'm being "politically correct", but as a man with many friends and family with mental illnesses, I'm sick of things like this.
tamanegisan
Jan. 22, 2016
I was sorta expecting this to be one of those "boring" games that take a quick turn to the quirky and interesting games -so I played it all the way through.
I was expecting there would be more story, a new mechanic that was going to be introduced when the "evil" lady was immune to your words.
But none of that happened. I thought I did something wrong.
Only when I saw the comments did I learn that there really was nothing else to it.
I'm not mad, just disappointed.
freteczka97
Jul. 29, 2015
The music's nice. The game itself's not very original and the rotation controls are a bit slow later on.
BigJohnnyDisco
Aug. 21, 2015
I generally don't write negative comments for games but I really dislike your use of schizophrenia in the game as it has no context and stigmatizes mental health problems. Please be more mindful of serious issues in future.
Joe_Cassano
Jul. 29, 2015
Too empty a game.