Compared to The Friends of Ringo Ishikawa, Arrest of a Stone Buddha is clearly more straightforward. You won’t find as much text or decision-making here. Although the game offers two possible endings, there are very few narrative segments, which are made up for by action. It is essentially a bloody 2D shooter. Yeo’s constant effort to push players toward...
Yeo's new game gets frustrating to early, so it's quite difficult to enjoy it despite its great art house aesthetics.
Arrest of a stone Buddha was way too repetitive for me. I didn't get into the story, and the gameplay was overall frustrating. One thing I did enjoy was the retro graphics and the ambient soundtrack. If you want to checkout Arrest of a stone Buddha, I recommend waiting on a sale.
It’s an unrelentingly bitter game, one which has the power to incite a strong reaction in anyone who plays it. Just as much as I liked it, I’m sure there are others out there who will come to hate it with a passion.
The best way to describe Arrest of a stone Buddha is to think of it as a dream in video game form, and I mean the kind you wake up from and wonder: “What the hell was that?” The lack of control, direction, and agency that one experiences while dreaming are the closest approximation I can come up with. However, there is some wisdom to be gleaned from...
