Do you remember the times when video games also served as promotional artifacts? From ‘Cool spot’ a ‘Pepsiman’, it is a subgenre that has given us games that were decent to the directly horrendous, although possibly none has been as daring as ‘Silent Cleaning’, a free video game of the company of Cleaning products Japanese Kao Corporation, who introduces his brands … a Survival Horror.
To rub demons. The game takes us to an old Japanese house that the player must clean, facing difficult stains (and a quite terrifying thing in itself, we must see how the toilets are). And then to a green creature that is neither more nor less than the mold, which has acquired awareness and is willing to end the cleaning brigades that want to disinfect it (As Arias demolition said).
CLEAN CALLADITO. This viscous demon reacts to the sound, so you will have no choice but to do the cleaning in complete silence, moving with caution and using cooking alarms and other objects that make noise to distract it or take it out of rooms where you intend to clean. Because you are not going to leave there until that house stays like the gold jets: you will have a map that will tell you which rooms of the house are about to clean.
Yes, it is advertising. The game is freeso in your adventure you have to be willing to consume a good amount of advertising. Luckily, it is Japanese advertising, so you can take it as a hyperrealist touch: all cleaning products are real, of the Kao Corporation brand. Luckily, those of the Kao Marketing Department decided to do their job well and embed us a very decent title with quite intriguing puzzles: Metroidvania mechanics (that flusflús that you just took clean an impossible spot of the first room) and a few puzzles of closed locks and cabinets.
Resident Evil, at his feet. ‘Silent Cleaning’ also provides some surprises for the devotees of the classics par excellence of the genre, the ‘Resident Evil’. Thus, as if it were conventional weapons, it will have to combine different limited products to make them effective against certain rebel spots. For example, tying a rag to a mop to reach inaccessible corners. A wink to the origins of the genre that gives an unexpected depth to a game that as they say, had no right to be so good.
A long tradition of games-ancium. As we said, ‘Silent Cleaning’ is not the first of its species: in the much more unvergonzones eighties and ninety we live a good amount of games that were actually camouflaged ads. ‘Cool spot’ of 7up, ‘Chester Cheetah: Too Cool to Fool’ of Cheetos, ‘Me! Noid ‘for Domino’s Pizza,’ McKids ‘for McDonalds, even the Spanish’ Whopper Chase ‘for Burger King … The list is endless, although we stay with two oddities:’America’s Army‘, a recruitment tool of the American army and the very cool’Pepsiman‘In PlayStation, only launched in Japan, but turned into a piece of absolute cult.
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