GRIS

I will never understand why this game is getting good reviews. Do you like art that has no skill involved and instead focuses on being random and weird to compensate? "Whoah, this rock has scribbled on legs! What a masterpiece!" Even if you like the art, this game asks you to walk around and press X occasionally to continue. I figured there must be some interesting gameplay and story going on for it to get these 5 and 4 star reviews. Nope. It's like walking through an emo teen's sketchbook. You know the teen who "expresses what is in her soul, not that you would understand!" but would never stoop to actually taking classes and honing some sort of skill. Couple that with puzzles suited for children and pad it with long periods of holding one direction and you get Gris. There is nothing about this that would qualify it as a video game. The 'interactions' with the game are incredibly shallow. Might as well be a 30 min slideshow. There is no point to having a player involved. Also, I play plenty of 2D sidescrollers and this game manages to make everything look flat like it is all on one plane. Never seen such poor execution on depth of field. Most of the time you cannot tell where the background begins and the playable area ends. I guess that is how this game introduces some challenge.

...in the literal sense. The artwork in this game is absolutely stunning, 11/10. The soundscape is also very enjoyable (but let's forget about whatever happened to the audio in the final cutscene - did some accidentally dial in the worst compression settings?). However, the game is not very challenging, and while there appear to be some optional parts that require more skill, it's easy to miss them. The game might be directed more towards casual players but I usually want to find everything in a game, and this game does its best at not distracting from the "easy" default path. I sometimes wanted to go back because I might have found some extra branch, but it was already too late - I passed some one-way geometry and had to move on. Apart from that, it was an enjoyable four-hour journey.

The story is way too abstract for my liking, there are some things happening but you have to give them meaning. Did she die at the end? And why did she morb into Morbius, the 2022 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name, produced by Columbia Pictures in association with Marvel?

The game is very beautiful, and the whole is great. However, it contains a very important hidden plot, which is linked to the elements collected in the game. And it won't tell you that there is no hint of hidden plot after the game! As a result, I can only go to the video website to complete this important hidden plot I personally hate this setting, which is always a devastating blow to the experience of a linear game!

Pure poetry, I would like to tell you more, but I have just finished it and I am still speechless.