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Cruelty Squad got awarded by The National Arts Councils of the Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike) (www.taike.fi)
submitted 2 years ago by simple@lemm.ee to c/games@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/6273186

The National Council for Audiovisual Art has awarded the State Prize for Media Art 2023 to visual artist Ville Kallio.

Ville Kallio was awarded in recognition of his meritorious work in the field of media and games as art. Kallio’s solo video game Cruelty Squad (2021) is artistically, content-wise and technically an ambitious and successful work in which his distinctive style emerges, both visually and narratively.

Cruelty Squad envisions a hyper-capitalist dystopian future in which everything is commercialised. At first impression, the work is a visually harrowing, hectic and skill-demanding video game. The more players immerse themselves in the game, the more they will find a lot of sharp social criticism within it, as it raises deep questions about human dignity and justice. Cruelty Squad is an internationally successful, artistically uncompromising and original work whose creator deserves to be noted for his artistic achievements also in Finland.

Ville Kallio (b. 1990) is a visual artist from Helsinki who works in many fields, including drawing, painting, video and sculptures, and in recent years especially with video games. His works have been shown internationally, including at the Feels Like Memeplex exhibition in Plymouth in 2023 and the Pet Cemetery exhibition in Athens in 2019.

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[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

LISTEN UP ASSHOLES. IF YOU HAVEN'T PLAYED THIS GODDAMN GAME, GO DO IT. YOU HAVE NO EXCUSE. EAT SHIT, PLAY CRUELTY SQUAD. I WILL NOT TAKE NO FOR AN ANSWER.

[–] simple@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

BUT I STILL HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I'M LOOKING AT WHENEVER I LOOK THIS GAME UP

[–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is the only scenario where you must stop thinking, and just start doing

[–] magikmw@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

My ADHD ass: "this is a trap"

[–] RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

WELL MAYBE IF YOU WOULD PLAY THE GAME YOU WOULD FIGURE IT OUT

[–] catboomer@catboomer.net 1 points 2 years ago

I SECOND THIS. ONE OF THE BEST GAMES I'VE PLAYED ALL YEAR. IT'S SO MUCH FUN!
CC: @simple@lemm.ee

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

IT'S MUCH EASIER TO SEE WHEN THINGS ARE IN MOTION. EITHER WAY, IF SOMETHING MOVES, SHOOT IT. NO ONE CARES. EVERYONE IS EVIL. YOU JUST WON'T GET PAID FOR THE BODY. YOU'LL GET THE HANG OF IT IN NO TIME.

[–] MarcomachtKuchen@feddit.de 4 points 2 years ago

The game is all about defying expectations about what you expect from a Video game. So if you Look it up and See the aweful Screenshots of the game, you have Not even scratched the surface of how many brillant levels of aweful game Design These guys Managed to fit into One title

[–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

This game is unironically one of the best indie games I’ve played recently. Just yesterday I was finishing it up on Hope Eradicated. Strongly, strongly recommended