Woo, Psycholonials! I hope it's good!
It’s apparently being released in chunks, with the first chapter (45 minutes or so of “gameplay”, though it’s pure non-interactive visual novel) out now and then free DLC for the remaining 8 chapters released every week or so. It’s basically a webcomic disguised as a visual novel, which is neat and something I’d considered doing myself (as have a million people, I’m sure). Assuming the chapters are all about the same length, it’s $10 for ~6-7 hours of story, which gets no complaints from me.
As to whether it’s good, I liked it well enough. I hear a lot of people complaining about the art, but I didn’t have an issue with it. It’s much more “MSPaint Adventures” than it is “Homestuck” and I think a lot of people maybe weren’t expecting that.
Though you can never truly be free
Storywise the one chapter was maybe too short to analyze. It’s a story about disaster people and the internet, is all I can really say without getting into spoilers (Though, after a year plus of Homestuck 2, wow an actual animation happened)
My one story thought I’ll share is that, given that Hussie was doing the eboy_hussie viral marketing back in 2019, I’m surprised at how much Covid-19 seems to be part of the story. It seems he made the entire game (except the music, which was made by Clark Powell and rules) in four months starting in April 2020, which is wild. I wonder if the idea was percolating in his head when he started eboy_hussie, or if eboy_hussie inspired the game, and if there’s even a difference between those two things.