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A highschool gang leader Ringo Ishikawa trying to live through his last autumn before graduation. With his best friends.
The friends of Ringo Ishikawa is a action, pixel graphics and rpg game
developed and published by yeo.
Released on May 17th 2018 is available on Windows and MacOS.
It has received 2,841 reviews of which 2,528 were positive and 313 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.5 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 12.49€ on Steam, but you can find it for 4.57€ on G2A.
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- OS: 7
- Processor: 1.2 GHZ
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Storage: 320 MB available space
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- OS: Mac OS
- Processor: 1.2 GHZ
- Memory: 2 MB RAM
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SCHOOL IS LIKE A DYING BIG OTHER: the action takes place in a Japanese school of the 90s, where rigid hierarchy, codes of honor, and respect for elders prevail. But this world is already dying.: teachers are powerless, students are losing interest, old gangs are breaking up. The school here is a Symbolic order in agony. It's a Big Other one that doesn't work anymore. The rules still exist, but they are empty. Teachers cannot enforce the Law. The code of honor is just a shadow of the past. The subject (Ringo) tries to live by these rules, but they no longer provide support. This is not parletre-acceptance, it is a neurotic attempt to hold onto something that is already dead. FIGHTING IS LIKE AN OBSESSIVE RITUAL OF MAINTAINING IDENTITY: you fight not for the sake of victory, but for the sake of maintaining status, loyalty, and "honor." A fight is a ritual that confirms: "I'm still a part of this world." This is a classic obsessive ritual. Ringo doesn't fight to solve a conflict. He's fighting to fill the void left by the dying Big Other. Every fight is an attempt to say: "I exist. I am faithful to the code." But this is an illusion. The Codex is dead. A fight does not restore order, it only highlights its absence. LOYALTY TO THE GANG = A HYSTERICAL QUESTION TO ANOTHER: you have to choose between loyalty to your gang, helping others, or going solo. Every choice affects a relationship. It's a hysterical question: "Who am I to them? What do they want from me?" Ringo looks for confirmation of his value in Others (gang, friends, enemies). But because the Big Other is dead, this question never gets answered. Loyalty becomes an end in itself, meaningless. ENDINGS = FANTASY TRAVERSE (OR LACK THEREOF): there are several endings: stay loyal to the gang, go alone, become a teacher, die. Some endings are a neurotic denial of loss (to stay true to a dead code). Others are an attempt to find a new meaning (to become a teacher, to impart knowledge). But the most parletarian ending is the one where Ringo accepts the death of the old world and finds his way outside the code. This is not a "victory", it is an acceptance that the Symbolic Order has disintegrated, and it is necessary to build your own synth from the wreckage. THE ATMOSPHERE OF THE 90S = NOSTALGIA AS A PROTECTION FROM THE REAL: pixel graphics, chiptune music, slow tempo create a feeling of "old school". It's not just aesthetics. This is an imaginary defense against the Real. Nostalgia for the 90s is an attempt to return to a time when the Big Other was still working, when the rules were clear, when honor carried weight. But this is an illusion. The game does not allow you to stay in the past. It forces you to face the fact that the past is dead.
You know how a snow globe sort of encapsulates within itself a certain kind of vibe and scenery? This is the closest way I can describe what this game is like. There is a certain aesthetic and feeling imprinted into this game and it just oozes with it. Themes like love, betrayal, the fleeting of youth, concepts like, coming of age, thinking about the world and your place in it. This entire game is just giving you a little peek through the window into Ringo and his friends lives. A lot of the dialogue is really interesting, even though it's very minimalist, you can get some really memorable quotes sometimes, some things really made me stop and think "Damn". You have about 40-60 days to live through the last days of high school and you are pretty much free to decide how you want to do that. You can be a delinquent all the way through, you can try to study and clean up your act, spend your days fishing, reading books in a cafe or working out, it has a kind of life-sim quality to it. It's a very good game with an overwhelming sense of melancholy attached to it. It's retrospective and almost meditative if you're in the right mindset when playing it. I recommend it wholeheartedly, it's unique and you'd be hard pressed to find another game like this. If the dev reads this review, I hope you keep on making games, you have a genuine authentic style to your work. I finished this game originally years ago and I still kept on thinking about it sometimes to this day, now playing it again with the new updates with the added content, it was even better. The ending always hits hard, I really love this game. Buy it for sure!
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The friends of Ringo Ishikawa is currently priced at 12.49€ on Steam.
No, The friends of Ringo Ishikawa is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 12.49€ on Steam.
Yes, The friends of Ringo Ishikawa received 2,528 positive votes out of a total of 2,841 achieving a rating of 8.54.
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The friends of Ringo Ishikawa was developed and published by yeo.
Yes, The friends of Ringo Ishikawa is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Yes, The friends of Ringo Ishikawa is playable and fully supported on MacOS.
No, The friends of Ringo Ishikawa is not playable on Linux.
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No, The friends of Ringo Ishikawa does not support VR.
The friends of Ringo Ishikawa offers both single-player and multi-player modes.
The friends of Ringo Ishikawa includes Co-op mode where you can team up with friends.
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No, The friends of Ringo Ishikawa does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Yes, The friends of Ringo Ishikawa supports Remote Play Together. Discover more about Steam Remote Play.
Yes, The friends of Ringo Ishikawa is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Game modes
Multiplayer
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Online players
21
Developer
yeo
Publisher
yeo
Release
17 May 2018
Platforms
Remote Play
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