Say No! More
The deliberately rudimentary animation and physics adds to the slapstick fun as you send co-workers and furniture tumbling, although, as with everything else, the appeal of the visuals wears off through repetition
C opy these papers. File those documents. Fix the printer. Make some coffee. Surely most of us can relate to the kind of entry-level office job in which colleagues, emboldened by the power they now wield over someone below them on the food chain, burden us with menial tasks. Studio Fizbin’s knockabout satire depicts a day in the life of a put-upon intern who, via the encouragement of a self-help tape, learns to push back, denying polite requests and more forceful demands in a world that normally prizes quiet compliance. It’s a one-joke game, but the joke’s a good one: the catharsis that comes from bellowing “No!” at co-workers and bosses so forcefully that they collapse to the floor or dissolve into tears is undeniably satisfying. But it’s a gag that wears thin over the two hours or so that follow, once you realise the title is pretty much the only thing you’ll be doing for the duration.