links for 2008-11-10
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This is by no means a "good" game, it plays quite awkwardly, and is exceedingly short. However, it's an intriguing one, a game where it's not all about the gameplay, where one might say it was "art".
Beyond the basic and somewhat cliched message of the game's plot, one of love lost and sacrifice; this game plays with our preconceived notions of how games should work. Where we normally play games almost with our minds and our emotions switched off and numbed, especially so in the case of platformers, this game takes our assumptions about the game's world, turns it upside down and pulls us back to reality. And then it hits you, in the heart, and then in the mind.
What's more it does all of this rather concisely.