Review: Restless Soul

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Mortality is the common experience. We all face the possibility of death at any moment. We know our lives are finite, possibly meaningless. Whether you’re rich, poor, classy, slovenly, hard-working, lazy, smart, daft, sexy, smelly, a game developer, a game critic, or worse, we all get there in the end. We all have different ways of coping with it. Humor is one such method and the one I prefer to lean on, even though I’m about as funny as a clown giving a eulogy. Humor is how I bury all my emotions. It’s how I hide my relentless misery and the sheer struggle it is to keep putting one foot in front of the other. Like I said: clown at a funeral.

Restless Soul is another clown at a funeral, by which I mean it’s not that funny. Continuing with that already tortured analogy, I don’t feel any scorn for its failures. Instead, my heart breaks for it. It’s trying to do something admirable and failing outright. And I don’t want to tell it that, but I’m committed to reviewing it, so I have to try and be gentle about it during this sensitive time. And already, I’ve failed at that, so this is really one huge awkward scene.

Restless Soul (PC [Reviewed], Nintendo Switch)Developer: Fuz GamesPublisher: Grafitti GamesReleased: September 1, 2022MSRP: $14.99

Restless Soul is about someone who recently died and wants to return to life. Apparently, they have unfinished business in life, but, guy, just consider that maybe the afterlife is better. Very few of us get the luxury of going, “Well, that’s my life in order. Guess I can die now.”

What follows is a deluge of attempted jokes. I think the aim was to make every bit of dialogue either a set-up or delivery for a joke, and it’s like a webcomic from the ‘00s. It’s tiresome. I think even if all