'Everything, Everywhere All at Once' but game.
Not gonna lie, was kind of underwhelmed by this but it still made me cry. Conceptually, it's truly amazing -- a game controlled by your blinks to get across how fleeting life can be and ultimately about how you shouldn't look back on the past and be resentful of what COULD have happened.
I personally didn't have any problems with the blinking. As in, I didn't have to recalibrate it at all so I guess all these other losers just have shit webcams and lighting (boom, roasted). But it is I who has a shit ability to not blink under pressure so I guess I am the real loser (boom, roasted *but said with disappointment). I think it's done really well. It's incredibly frustrating and exactly the same feeling I get when I regret spending time doing one thing opposed to another thing. And the sick fucks behind this game really went out of their way to make it as frustrating as possible by not only making the game jump forward in time every time you blink but making missable things you want to do also controlled by blinking so you're more susceptible to blinking and missing out on your life that literally goes by in the blink of an eye.
Yes, it did make me cry because this is one of those stories where it's intentionally minimal and generic in order for the audience to project their own life onto it to have a stronger emotional reaction. But I think that's what let me down. Because it ended up feeling like watching a generic film but I often sat on the remote and fast-forwarded by accident. The second half of the game is important in communicating the message but it just felt like it was missing something and I'm not quite sure what it was. It just felt like it was clashing with the first half, I suppose?
This is a really fantastic concept that I think can be taken much further. This execution could just feel a bit barebones at times.
It's still a really good and unique game and it pushes the medium to a higher place but it leans a bit too far heavily into the fact that it's an unconventional control method.
Thankfully, the voice acting was surprisingly good and the music was very opportune too as it should be when that's really all it has when you take away the blinking.
Not gonna lie, was kind of underwhelmed by this but it still made me cry. Conceptually, it's truly amazing -- a game controlled by your blinks to get across how fleeting life can be and ultimately about how you shouldn't look back on the past and be resentful of what COULD have happened.
I personally didn't have any problems with the blinking. As in, I didn't have to recalibrate it at all so I guess all these other losers just have shit webcams and lighting (boom, roasted). But it is I who has a shit ability to not blink under pressure so I guess I am the real loser (boom, roasted *but said with disappointment). I think it's done really well. It's incredibly frustrating and exactly the same feeling I get when I regret spending time doing one thing opposed to another thing. And the sick fucks behind this game really went out of their way to make it as frustrating as possible by not only making the game jump forward in time every time you blink but making missable things you want to do also controlled by blinking so you're more susceptible to blinking and missing out on your life that literally goes by in the blink of an eye.
Yes, it did make me cry because this is one of those stories where it's intentionally minimal and generic in order for the audience to project their own life onto it to have a stronger emotional reaction. But I think that's what let me down. Because it ended up feeling like watching a generic film but I often sat on the remote and fast-forwarded by accident. The second half of the game is important in communicating the message but it just felt like it was missing something and I'm not quite sure what it was. It just felt like it was clashing with the first half, I suppose?
This is a really fantastic concept that I think can be taken much further. This execution could just feel a bit barebones at times.
It's still a really good and unique game and it pushes the medium to a higher place but it leans a bit too far heavily into the fact that it's an unconventional control method.
Thankfully, the voice acting was surprisingly good and the music was very opportune too as it should be when that's really all it has when you take away the blinking.