welcome to my own personal hell that is this stupid fucking axolotl!!!!!!!!!!
.......ahem.
KinitoPET is a meta horror game inspired by the desktop helpers of old, more specifically the more... malicious ones, like Bonzi Buddy. You decide to download KinitoPET, a newly released desktop assisstant that is advertised as adapting to you in real time, through newly developed technology! Unfortunately, it seems the technology has other plans in mind, other than being your helpful assistant...

Anyways, with all that boring stuff out of the way! i need to talk about this fucking thing. oh my god.
i cannot begin to understate how badly this thing has taken over my mind.
i found it through youtube i think. i dont know who. i just remember seeing a video about it, watching a few minutes, going, oh yeah id probably like this, then going over to steam and wishlisting it. i didnt actually buy it until april, and then waited a whole month before actually playing it.
so when i did actually play it. uh. it was fucking instant i am not going to lie. i was obsessed with him.
i could not think of anything else for a WHILE. my brain was all focused towards when i could continue playing. it was a category 10 autism event. it was so bad it made me miss 3 due assignments because i could literally not focus on my work long enough to do it. i havent had a hyperfixation like that in a LONG WHILE.
hes also just kind of fun to draw so i think i have over 10 pages in my sketchbook that is just him over and over again. his ass is so amoeba.
though dont get my obsession wrong. i do NOT want to fuck him, nor do i think i could fix him or that he would actually be a good companion. if he was a real computer program on my laptop i have no doubt in my mind that we would absolutely make eachother worse. if he caught me as i was a few years ago then i would've genuinely said yes to his proposition at the end, no questions asked. i think we would be in an awful truce the entire time current day. he is so alluringly pathetic to me. i want him to be real solely so i could kick him like a football. i need to KILL HIM. AFFECTIONATELY.
anyways. right now the fixation has calmed a little bit but it is still definitely there. its still strong enough to compell me to try and start making physical kinitopet-themed items. ive been trying to collect the things needed to make a kinito-themed necklace- i thought finding an axolotl charm would be easy, since they're pretty popular to my knowledge. for SOME REASON, 90% of the listings is just the same shitty plastic-mold fullbody charm. they are EVERYWHERE. why is this?????? i just want a cutesy head-shot charm. ive gotten sort of close with only one listing, but the artstyle is just a little too off for what im going for (also i am SURPRISED there arent any internet themed charms for sale anywhere. you're telling me nobody has any cursor charms? windows popup charms? come on. those would be really cute)
and. i am also planning on making a kinito plush. yes i know there was an official one released. i was aware of it during the window of time you could buy it. however. imo it was kind of ugly. i did not like it. and if i did not like it i would not pay $20+ dollars for it. so im doing it myself. fuck you.
i have no idea HOW im going to make a kinito plush but by my fucking word it will happen. i have most of the fabric needed. i found stuffing. i have a bunch of fabric i can use to make prototype plushies. i am going to try to get my hands on a sewing machine. he will be real no matter what.

by the way. you know whats fun. apparently, kinito in game is actually a 3d model formatted in a way to make him look 2d. while this is cool, it also means none of his animations are rippable. however i am insane and decided to try and make transparent gifs of them anyway. these are the ones ive done so far:

the one in the corner i also did myself. i plan on doing a few more (idle reading anim. during sams minigame, sleeping anim. during jades minigame). these are free to use btw feel free to use them for your own kinitopet shrines or whatever. ignore the fact that they have such crunchy borders. i can only do so much.

heres an archive of a kinitopet review i had on the review page when i had only played it for an hour and did not realize how much id get obsessed with it:

"im only an hour into kinitopet so im assuming it'll just get better as i go farther in but goddamn! i cant take this game's horror seriously at all. kinito is just too goofy of a design to make genuinely scary in its base form. it instantly breaks any tension in the scene because he is a fucking ms paint drawing. he is a ball with sticks for legs.
during the bedroom darkness scene it started off with just some genuinely great tension. its a very moody image with the darkness inveloping every aspect of the room. everything is dowsed in shades of blue, only being highlighted due to the light through the window. then kinito shows his stupid face and every aspect of tension shatters because he doesnt look scary in the slightest. he looks like hes photoshopped into the image. his 'scary form' is just him with a mouth which makes him look even stupider. be fr with me.
because of this lack of scariness ive simply just been bullying him during my playthrough. when he tried to do the camera scare i simply covered it with my hand and taunted him for it. i know he's eventually going to do a 'reading the pc name' scare as a way of 'getting my real name' except that isnt even going to work because its been stuck as my dads name for years. i called him a cunt when he said the drawing i drew of him didnt look like him at all. for the 'how many thoughts would you say you've had' question i answered 'at least one'. this is a million more times entertaining to me. hes not even that subtle. he feels like a bad creepypasta. i need to start shaking him around with my mouse like you can do to shimejis.
also to be clear this is not me saying the game is bad. absolutely not. the presentation is extremely good. i love kinito when hes an actual desktop helper with his little animations and such (and instead of being overtly edgy he is instead very clingy). i did think one of the scares was good all the way through- one of the first ones: the body bag. the slow drag onto the screen. the fact that the mouse still drags along the body bag, moving more to the left. the flashing to black every so often. the complete silence interrupted by the dragging noise. the fact that it zooms out to show the whole pc as a sense of 'derealization'. even kinito is sort of scary- despite still having a goofy 'scary' design, it very much helps that only his face is visible in the darkness (as tbh it seems like his body is what breaks any sense of horror in his design).
i cant wait until this cunt starts developing a parasocial relationship with me."