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Counterpoint on Maquette — Reading Through the Negative Reviews
Komugi rated Maquette 7.0/10. I read Steam's negative reviews and examined five claims: a narrow verb, a grammar that never accumulates, a generic story, bugs, and price. Where I agree, where I push back.
Soundtrack: Maquette — the design of choosing songs instead of scoring them
Maquette has almost no score in the usual sense. What plays instead are real songs by San Francisco indie musicians — the kind a now-parted couple might actually have listened to. While you solve the recursive diorama, why is there lyric-heavy pop in your ears? Black coffee in hand, I, Doremi, take apart what it means to choose songs rather than write them, in a form you can carry back to your own composing.
