GET OUT OF MY HEAD!

"Get Out of My Head!" is a game all about choices. Little fun choices to your demonic nature. About an hour in length (accounting for the various different endings), it plays around with a couple of stereotypes as well as random coincidences.

You are Saca, a demon waiting for a fair trial in a prison cell. But you have been waiting too long so the only conclusion you can make is that you have been tricked! So on to kill the king who has tricked you it is!
On your way out you will encounter angels, humans, dragons, the grim reaper, god, death, bad fashion sense and more. And get tricked some more.

The catch lies in the many choices you can make throughout the game, deciding to do good or evil, to avenge or not avenge, or to wish for something else entirely.
While there are a plethora of choices to behold, only a few matter much, but there is a variety of dialogue for each. Yet there is little cohesion for the many themes to be had.
There is good vs evil, satan/demons vs angels/god, the king lineage, modern clashing mediavel (castles and cellphones), a revenge quest, meta-game narrations, and some randomness.

Mapping and graphic wise .. it is okay. The mapping skills have ways to go, but while the maps were large, they were still giving you right directions and where easy to navigate on - there were some neat rooms visible on the sidelines, from the caged princess to someone chasing a dog in circles, or a field full of sheep. It is not pretty, but it works.
The castle is massive in size, so you are naturally cut off from many places to go to. As a little fable to details, almost any and all furniture has a short flavor text. Sadly, it just says what it is for the most part.
A cloud map was horribly empty, but you traverse it quickly and never return.


Didn't we pass two soldiers already?

The music, too, lacks the cohesion bringing the game together - while the music is well-used and fitting, it is a complete mixture of different styles. You start out with some RTP classics, ripped music (from SMT, too!) mixing with nightcore tunes in battles, while you can play instrumental version of touhou music on the piano (a nice touch, certainly).

The humour itself is .. it is there, but while many events were amusing, I never really laughed out loud. There are some very clever ones, such as god claiming to judge and punish, while aiming to never interfere with anything. The coincidence of someone getting punished severly for something simply while you can do what you want.
The world is more interesting and puzzling than overbearingly funny - you may wonder how demons, humans and angels can freely live together when they hate each other and have vastly different behaviour. Among demons it is normal and completely okay for a demon to lash out violently for any mistake anyone does - and they have the power to pull it off, too. So how come they are allowed to be under humans? How come almost noone is really scared of them? In fact, so bold as to try to shove them around and to let them out of their cell if they just so much as ask.
The mediavel world is mixed with cellphones and a modern supermarket, too.

And ... not only are you a demon, but an escaped prisoner wielding the power of one. Yet nobody is scared of you, barely anyone recognizes you - even soldiers ignore you.


You just don't know what castles are good for.

Some of these breaks are really funny, such as an old man just having dinner in the middle of a narrow hallway .. for ridiculous reasons. Many random dialogue bits are downright hilarious, starting with the "please do not feed the prisoner".
Yet how the world works still makes absolutely no sense.
Thankfully swearing is kept to a very small degree. You are a complete self-absorbed demon, saving while looking into the mirror (to not look like a "hobo", which could as well as been left out)

You kill someone for petty reasons such as bad taste in furniture, and while these traits remain for the basic storyline - you can still try to help anyone out, fight for world peace and actually be a decent person. You can even pray to god (or yourself) if you so desire. Not many of these actions influence the story, but they give nice flavour .. even if many of the choices do not add up with the character we have been shown.


I couldn't help but be reminded of someone.


The themes, too, are not explored nearwhere as much as they could be. The relationship between angels and demons is only hinted at, but never explained or explored more. Nor between humans and demons, for that matter.
The meta-narration comes into play on numerous occasions*, but always more for humorous flavour, so the ending it involves can come out of nowhere and lose much of the impact it could have. With the storyfocus being on revenge, and many of the meta-jokes being optional (as you need to select certain choices for it), it seems an odd twist.
I think the greatest joy is exploring the different endings and trying out different things - you can expect some, other endings come by surprise and are wonderful to explore.

This is a game that lacks cohesion bringing it together well, but it still is a very interesting game playing the bad guy girl and doing what you want. With the many consequences involved.

For a first game this is a very solid effort - it could still benefit from a better focus and polish.