#really proving my psychiatrist right on the whole autism thing here lol

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I'm super fascinated by my poll results so far-28 votes as of this post. 21.4% the first option. 46.4% the second option (that's not all that surprising. It makes sense that one of the less black and white answers has more love) 21.4% the 3rd option and 10.7% the 4th option.

My bf played buddy sim the night before I played kinitopet (I ofc watched him play buddy sim and he watched me play kinitopet) so maybe that's why the similarities were so striking to me

Rambling opinion on it all ⬇️

But like. Without thinking about it for long I could already come up with several similarities

Both characters pretty much immediately saying "Thank you for waking me up" it think in that exact phrase for both?

Both games following characters starting with rudimentary games and then building up to them making a larger experience tied directly to questions they asked about you-especially the asking about the season thing.

The cutaway to seemingly "random" horror bits (the glitch scenes for buddy sim and the scenes like the hide n seek game for kinitopet)

I want to loosely add the ending with a song thing. A lot of games follow that structure. (Portal/portal 2 and Doki Doki come to mind) Though both songs center specifically around friendship. I do believe that tropes are tropes for a reason, and it's not a bad thing to include in your game. I think what stands out to me is that so many of the tropes appear in both games in very similar ways imo

Even down to giving both characters "access" (though kinitopet does make that aspect a lot more apart of the game)

I think they both have a music track by the same name too?

I think I would feel less strongly about it if kinitopet was more developed. That might not have been the vibe the developer was going for, but I think the fast pace combined with the kind of loose horror scenes made all those similarities really stand out to me. If it felt more developed, I think I would appreciate the game a lot more for what it is and the road it takes than just have it remind me of something else.

I went into it wanting a new digital horror experience but spent like half of the time sharing looks with my boyfriend about it. Not all of those looks were disappointed looks. They started as sort of excited that a game was expanding on different aspects of a similar idea to one of my favorite games. They just kind of became disappointed

Overall I feel kind of neutral about kinitopet. The things i liked and the things i didnt kind of weigh each other out. For some people, a bite sized horror experience is exactly what they want. I'm sure those people would have opinionated critiques of buddy sim for not getting straight to the point like I do of Kinitopet for not taking its time. It's all opinion at the end of the day.

I do think the character of kinitopet was really fun though. And the way he messed with your desktop did stand out among other games who did similar things.

But, I did feel like the horror was rushed which made it feel cliche and not very scary. Then again, I was in the fnaf fandom back in the day lol so maybe I don't have legs to stand on there.

Long story short. The summary of my opinion on kinitopet would be: if it expanded on its premise more, the similarities would be less striking bc it would have set itself apart. Without expanding on it, it just feels like a skeleton of other digital horror that came before it. That is just my opinion tho.