An actual landmark game. Virtually perfect thematic/aesthetic cohesion across the board AND actually using the medium of interactivity to create something otherwise impossible? That's big.
This is a rare game that I think has both very general appeal and the power and presence to be called a masterpiece. It'll screw a few people over by virtue of being a semi-obtuse puzzler with a ton of trust in the player's intuition (meaning rough onboarding especially for people unfamiliar with spaceflight, or just games in general) but you've gotta lose some people along the way, so it's a worthy if unfortunate sacrifice.
Spoilers obviously murder this game, and I'm not planning on a fifty-mile-long analysis so it isn't worth getting into. You kinda just gotta trust that there's a reason so many people rave about it. Fly a spaceship and solve some weird mysteries in a solar system where nothing is as it seems - who isn't down for that?
This is a rare game that I think has both very general appeal and the power and presence to be called a masterpiece. It'll screw a few people over by virtue of being a semi-obtuse puzzler with a ton of trust in the player's intuition (meaning rough onboarding especially for people unfamiliar with spaceflight, or just games in general) but you've gotta lose some people along the way, so it's a worthy if unfortunate sacrifice.
Spoilers obviously murder this game, and I'm not planning on a fifty-mile-long analysis so it isn't worth getting into. You kinda just gotta trust that there's a reason so many people rave about it. Fly a spaceship and solve some weird mysteries in a solar system where nothing is as it seems - who isn't down for that?