If you’re interested in reading my take on the original content, you can check my entry of the 2013 version of The Stanley Parable.
Now for the new content: I feel like i might have played it at a very bad time. This edition was my first experience with The Stanley Parable, and i loved it, but maybe playing the new content right away wasn’t a good decision. I just felt it like it was, let’s say, too bureaucratic. Like, collecting figurines? It’s a bit of a change in terms of gameplay, which is not a good or bad thing by itseld, but I don’t know, i just didn’t vibe with it. Still, there were a few good ideas here and there, and also, i can’t help but feeling that idea of expanding on something to the core of wasting it and making it tiring is actually the concept that consciously drives this whole expansion. So maybe i was supposed to feel this way. I guess i’ll have to give it another shot in the future.
Now for the new content: I feel like i might have played it at a very bad time. This edition was my first experience with The Stanley Parable, and i loved it, but maybe playing the new content right away wasn’t a good decision. I just felt it like it was, let’s say, too bureaucratic. Like, collecting figurines? It’s a bit of a change in terms of gameplay, which is not a good or bad thing by itseld, but I don’t know, i just didn’t vibe with it. Still, there were a few good ideas here and there, and also, i can’t help but feeling that idea of expanding on something to the core of wasting it and making it tiring is actually the concept that consciously drives this whole expansion. So maybe i was supposed to feel this way. I guess i’ll have to give it another shot in the future.