Review: Daymare 1998 (Sony PlayStation 4)

Review by Matt S.

There is a fine line between creating a homage and creating something derivative, but it makes all the difference. A homage is a celebration of something people love. It's a stylistic call back to what people loved about the thing that it's based on, but it has its own identity that takes it beyond the source of its identity in some distinct way. A derivative game, on the other hand, is enslaved to the source of its inspiration and, in almost all cases, because there's so little original creativity driving it, it comes across as nothing more than a hollow pastiche. An imitation. Bad art. Welcome to Daymare 1998.

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