About this game
The first thing that hits you is the music. It’s this weirdly cheerful, almost tinny holiday jingle that loops while Brickhouse Betty, a blonde with proportions that defy physics, stretches out on a beach towel in a bikini that’s basically just three strings and a prayer. Santa is there too, in full red suit, sweating his ass off. The whole setup is so aggressively stupid I couldn’t stop clicking.
The animation is janky in a way that feels intentional, like someone animated it on a phone during a lunch break. Betty’s idle bounce has this hypnotic rhythm. Then this guy called The Puppeteer shows up, some disgruntled ex-employee of Santa’s workshop, and the plot just goes off the rails. He kidnaps Betty. Why? Revenge, I guess. The logic doesn’t matter. What matters is he sends two redheads, Holly and Jolly, to distract Santa. Their distraction technique is, well, direct. They’re elfs, I think? The tag says elfs. They look like they raided a Spirit Halloween after closing time.
There’s a moment where Santa is supposed to be resisting their advances and his face cycles through three expressions, one of which looks like he just remembered he left the oven on. I fixated on that face for way too long. The whole rescue sequence is Santa just kind of wobbling across the screen while the elfs d*** themselves over him. Meanwhile, the Puppeteer is with Betty in a scene that’s animated with the same care you’d give to a screensaver. The sex is explicit but the movements loop so perfectly it becomes abstract, almost meditative. I wish the beach background had more going on, maybe a seagull or something, but it’s just static sand forever.
It’s a Christmas game set on a beach. That contradiction is the whole vibe. The humor is accidental and genuine. You’re not laughing with it, exactly, but you’re definitely laughing. The sound effects are stock, the kind you’d find in a free app from 2012. At one point Santa rescues Betty and I swear the victory jingle was the same as the intro jingle. No resolution, no dialogue, just the loop closing. I don’t know what I expected. Maybe exactly this.