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“It is the first time a fragrance has featured in a game as a playable character"Why tho

Why tho

A screenshot of Curved Space, a scifi shmup, showing an R-Type like spaceship on the right and a robot on the left. Bet you can’t guess which one of these is a fragrance.

This same screwtop fuckboi can now be your wingman inCurved Space, a twin-stick shmup of no particular note. “It is the first time a fragrance has featured in a game as a playable character” is a line from the press release. I love it, I hate it.

Here’s a trailer for the free DLC/product placement:

CURVED SPACE - NEW CONTENT - PHANTOM TRAILERWatch on YouTube

CURVED SPACE - NEW CONTENT - PHANTOM TRAILER

Cover image for YouTube video

Question: they say this is a playable character, but is it? He looks more like an NPC that follows you around and while I guess you direct him towards enemies, that’s not the same as him being “playable”. This is, of course, beside the point.

Curved Space came outon Steamback in June. It currently has 10 reviews on Steam, suggesting its sales have not been stellar. Still, Paco Rabanne have seen fit to partner with the game, so now you can send a perfume bottle out to fight interdimensional bugs on its small, rounded levels.

In fact, I say we should work this in the opposite direction. What other deployable weapons would you enjoy smelling like? Phantom allegedly has “notes of addictive creamy lavender, energizing fusing lemon and sexy woody vanilla.” I reckon aHalf-Life 2manhack probably smells of ashes, just as the G-Man was talking about, but, like, reallyarousingandfrothyashes?