Genius and Beauty Postal 1
You know, I have games that I consider unfairly forgotten: Spec-Ops: The Line, the first Condemned, the first part of the Postal tetralogy is located here.
A cat’s gun stretched to the muzzle, the ability to water all of the “hose” of all, including yourself, the black satire for everything and everything – this is what the postal series was remembered: the best, according to many, the second part, wretched [according to the same people] the third and ambiguous fourth fourth fourth. But many throw the first part from this equation. In vain.
This article is a text version of my video. I advise you to see exactly, because I insert it there and so on, and even in the voice acting, the dude from Postal 2 participated!!
Why exactly Postal 1?
If you are familiar with the Postal series only in the second part, then for you it may become a revelation that the first is not a black satire over everything and everything, but a purebred horror. Yes, there are no jokes towards minorities, attitude to cruel video games and other things. In general, the atmosphere of carbon monoxide is replaced by an atmosphere of horror, although, more accurately, it would be possible to say, on the contrary. Most understandable the difference in these two games demonstrates this video:
In 2021, I decided to arrange a Postal 2 marathon and all its additions, and as soon as I graduated from this trip, I wanted more. The third part did not want to go through because of the amusement, but her flat humor and cruelty, in adolescence, came in. The fourth then has not yet been finished. So the first. More precisely, her remake is postal: redux . The reprint was updated, added new levels, redrawn and animated the arts, made changes to the narrative. And finishing her passage – I was impressed.
Redux or not Redux?
Of course Redux. Not only is the new graphics, but the management is now not tank, but both in a modern isometric shooter. True, because of this, the game has become much simpler, so you should choose the level of complexity higher-this has one more reason, but more on that later. How the art was redrawn and an abstract – deserves special attention.
The Trailer Park Postal 1
The Trailer Park Postal: Redux
And many will say that the old old art was more frightening. I agree with this. But let’s be honest, all sorts of old things scare us on their own. There is a whole direction of VHS horror, and many crypts of images lose their horror as soon as they remove aging filters and add details. Simply put – this does not make art in edges worse, they are recreated and redrawn perfectly.
Gameplay
There is nothing to say. Typical isometric shooter, the main goal of which is to destroy everyone at the level. Arsenal not to say that huge, “enemies” do not shine with intelligence, but take numerical superiority. Given that the game is in one or two approach-the gameplay does not have time to get bored, and to destroy the unforgiving in dozens-pleasant.
Music
I rarely add music from video games to my playlist. But here is an exception. I even write a script for the soundtrack from Postal Redux. What is only "Run from me"
However, on YouTube, it sounds somehow flat, https://www.popularslotgames.co.uk/popular-microgaming-slots so I leave a link to the playlist in Yandex. Listen at leisure.
In general, music and an ambitious are perfectly complemented by art, atmosphere and history, by the way about it.
Narrative
This is what you need to feel yourself. The Gikovo community is difficult to surprise, it will curse the face even from a good plot and narrative, if it is not twisted into several layers of post/Met/meaning, does not use all the techniques that were only invented in order not to convey the idea in the forehead. But, sometimes, this is bored and I want something simpler. Not at all, Postal 1 Redux does not fall to a banal explanation of what is happening, but also guess what is quite simple to.
So, the same “Chekhovsky gun”: depending on the chosen level of complexity, the behavior of the dude – the protagonist of the game will also change. At a mild level – this is a psycho that kills because he is ChSV with God’s syndrome, who believes that people are garbage. Dude from Iza Fashion is eager to feed the earth.
On "hard fashion" the picture is changing. Obviously, a dude now has a different disorder – he hears voices, shots, and as a result comes to the conclusion that in Paradise all except him are infected.
This level of complexity also explains the motivation of the dude to move precisely to the military base, in his opinion, the infection came out from there.
The main anti -hero is taking what is happening as a war, a crusade. Actually, at some point, the “Diary” postscript changes to the “War Journal”
Obviously, a dude is driven by the desire to save the world, he is not some kind of evil and cynical mass killer. Rather, in his sore head, he is not such. And the aforementioned arts perfectly demonstrate how a dude perceives the world around him.
From an artistic point of view, it is difficult to choose the words, not special I in this. But I note that they have their own atmosphere. The atmosphere of dirty horror, madness, burned bridges – there is no road back, the inner demon has already taken control.
If they ask me to describe something dead, cruel, but alive at the same time, art from Postal I will climb into my head.
As you could guess, I like a dude from a complex regime more, but a dude from the lung is also interesting: here and there, such “dude” arise in real life, I think you understand what I mean.
The endings
In the original, the ending is strange: the dude gets to the air base, cleanse heyo, makes a note in the diary about the completed task – “cleaned hive” and is sharply transferred to school. It would seem that the next level, but no – you can’t kill anyone. After some time, the dude finally rides a roof and falls to his knees, and it becomes obvious to us that it was only in his head (level with the school). He is taken to a psychiatric hospital, where he will be studied for a long time. However, it is no secret that the level at school was added only to raise the excitement around the game. The phenomenon of sculpture is not new in many countries. Nevertheless, it looks frightening and once again proves that schemers are not required to create a horror.
But Redux is approaching the ending much more poetic.
Dude is on the way to the church. However, there is no one. It is worth going further-and you can notice someone’s funeral. There is a priest, or a priest and two more people – it depends on the level of complexity. The counter, which always showed how much it remained to kill for the transition to the next level on the spot and signals exactly one person.
But you can’t kill anyone again. Dude can only watch how the coffin falls down. And as soon as this happens, the counter changes the value.
Showing that everyone who needs to be killed is killed.
I think this scene demonstrates a point of no return. All the way, the dude accused everyone: the city, which has gone crazy, illness, military, etc. p. But in the end, only the antihero itself is to blame. The world will become pure if he dies, and not everything around. Here they see on the last journey and the remnants of the mental health of the dude – then only seizures and suffering await it. After all this, the dude enters the "medical"
The developers really were able to show the small story of the psycho-killer without romanticization and without condemnation. All have their own reasons, including the madness of the dude. No one wants to be angry of their own free will. We were shown the path of a man who involuntarily became bad, the consequences of his actions are terrible and destructive.
What kind of genius?
No, it was not about genius. At least there was a calculation in order to make a more intriguing title. I wanted to say about the genius in Socratic sense:
Socrates described his personal Diamon-Genia as an inner voice, who always warned the philosopher as soon as he wanted to commit an incorrect act.
Wikipedia
If you think carefully, then this is our mind that protects us from madness and bad deeds. Dude lost his Diamon-Genia, which led him to where he was.
In conclusion, I would like to say that Postal I: Redux should become a classic. This game has a lot of bright elements: art, music, history, message. Definitely, in some points there is LNGS, but the authors leave incidents to that so that people create a story in their heads.