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Ministry of Broadcast

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Ministry of Broadcast
Description
A country divided by The Wall. To cross it and reach your family, you must compete on - and win - a reality TV show broadcast by the Regime. Ministry of Broadcast is a narrative-driven single player cinematic platformer mixing Orwell’s 1984 with modern reality TV. Rife with dark humor, sarcasti...
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2020, Ministry of Broadcast Studios, ...
System requirements
Windows 7/8/10, 1.2Ghz+, 2 GB RAM, 512MB, 1 GB available space, Requires a 64-bit processor and oper...
Time to beat
5.5 hMain
8 h Main + Sides
10 h Completionist
6 h All Styles
Description
A country divided by The Wall. To cross it and reach your family, you must compete on - and win - a reality TV show broadcast by the Regime.



Ministry of Broadcast is a narrative-driven single player cinematic platformer mixing Orwell’s 1984 with modern reality TV. Rife with dark humor, sarcastic quips, and a general absurdity of the system.



Seemingly built overnight, The Wall has divided both a country in two and a man from his family. To see them again, our ginger-haired protagonist has decided to become a contestant on “The Wall Show”, a Regime-organized TV show allowing competitors the opportunity to escape to freedom on the other side. However, as he progresses through the camp, our contestant soon realizes exactly how the Regime and the show operate. The promise of freedom is not exactly what it seems.



Inspired by games such as Prince of Persia (1989) and Oddworld: Abe’s Exoddus, Ministry of Broadcast revives the spirit of classic cinematic platformers where players need nimble run-and-jump reflexes as well as a healthy aversion to falling from precarious heights. To reach freedom and family, you must lead the protagonist through each of the Arenas while under the ever-watchful mechanical eye of the Regime. The variety of hazardous, dilapidated environments hold an array of obstacles for you to manage—leg-shattering drops (scared of heights?), flaming barrels of garbage (extra-smelly, extra-flamey), inconveniently-placed spike pits (of course), hanging steel beams (so much rust)—but none of this is to speak of the fates of those you meet along the way.

FEATURES

  • Cinematic platformer: Run, jump, crash, and climb your way through each Arena as the narrative unfolds around you. Much of the story is unveiled via smoothly integrated animation sequences, within the environment, or from NPCs muttering bits of dialogue as you dive and dodge around them.
  • Environmental HUD: Rather than having a screen cluttered with overlaid indicators, HP bars, and minimaps, any information the player will need is incorporated into the environment. Hints and clues are meshed into the game’s art, subtle and specific, players will need a keen eye if they want to survive each Arena without breaking their legs.
  • Puzzle-solving: Use your wits, and at times a dash of ruthlessness, to advance through the Arenas. You’ll have to interact with the environment itself to solve most of the puzzles: use the protagonist’s momentum to move platforms, flip the occasional lever, and sometimes you might have to sacrifice an NPC or two to cross a particularly spiky pit.
  • Story and Personality: Featuring lots of impish humor, Grade A sarcasm, and comic mischief, all balanced perfectly with the dark, heavy themes presented in this dystopian world.



Ministry of Broadcast © 2020 Published by Hitcents.com, Inc. and PLAYISM, developed by Ministry Of Broadcast Studios. All rights reserved. Logos and trademarks are property of their respective owners.

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Why buy on GOG.COM?
DRM FREE. No activation or online connection required to play.
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Time to beat
5.5 hMain
8 h Main + Sides
10 h Completionist
6 h All Styles
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Works on:
Windows (7, 8, 10, 11), Mac OS X (10.11+)
Release date:
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Size:
705 MB

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Posted on: February 3, 2020

Senovsky

Games: 4 Reviews: 2

Dystopic baby of classic DOS platformers

Indie pixelart? Check. Good ol' platforming? Check. Engaging storyline? Check. Immersive music, self-aware jokes, nationality of the authors? Check. Check. Czech. Only problem I've had was the inability to set difficulty - when you get stuck, you're stuck. The crow could give hints after several unsuccessful attempts on lower difficulty. Otherwise great fun.


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Posted on: February 19, 2021

OresUkos

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Prince of Persia set in dystopian 1984

This game surprised me. It reminds me of the original Prince of Persia, without the swordfighting but with fun puzzles (there is a bit where you can "fight" though but I won't spoil...). When it comes to running and jumping, reaching for ledges and climbing up, timing your jumps. It has very similar mechanics to Prince of Persia and they are smooth! The controls are tight. The difficulty curve is perfect, it starts out easy and gets harder as the game progresses but it never becomes too hard. The story is fun and has a lot of humor and makes you think about the reality of what's going on in the game... There are some trippy parts. All in all a very fun platformer experience!


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Posted on: August 11, 2021

ERISS

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Games: 3133 Reviews: 208

can't bind keys

Le jeu est faussement localisé en français: les touches Z et Q ne répondent pas: injouable. You must have an english keyboard to play this game


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Posted on: June 5, 2020

FortyGallonTophat

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Games: 170 Reviews: 27

I loved it!

This was a great puzzle platformer. It's got a 1984 vibe while also having a great sense of humor about itself. For the whole thing, I only found one puzzle that I was a bit clunky (turned out I was doing the right thing but at the wrong time). I honestly can't wait for these guys to put out their next game!


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Posted on: April 10, 2023

FKAWMEWB

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Games: 171 Reviews: 22

Methodical platformer that grows on you

"There's always enough space for a new wall in the hearts of men." On the surface of it, this is a slow and somewhat pedantic platformer that still needs exact timing and near-pixel precision at times; a game set in a surveillance state whose history is more holes than plot and presented in often unskippable dialogues; and the humour is such that the show's basecamp is called HOT GULAG. Ouch! Yet, during my two 6-8 hour playthroughs, including 567 deaths in total, it really grew on me. For one thing, it's immensely satisfying chaining together those methodical Prince of Persia style motions to complete an arena (to say nothing of solving puzzles with your sewer-informed body odour). For another, the game is a lot more conceptually coherent than it might seem. You may roll your eyes at cliché signs pointing out the total surveillance and required behaviour, but when those same signs have an F or an arrow pointing up, you thankfully obey yourself by pushing the respective keys. The eye that always watches the protagonist is of course yours- but together with the rigid controls and the consistent breaking of the fourth wall, the game challenges your superiority from the start. On the last day "reality really becomes real," meaning you now jump through film sets instead of the places they're meant to depict. Also, the game suddenly seems to offer you a choice between paving your way with more civilian bodies, or going out of your way to spare some of them. Or maybe show runners and game devs alike just upped the stakes a bit to keep you engaged? The country has been divided long enough that it's told about in murals (walls praising walls), but somehow the hero's wife lives on the other side- or is this just the tragic backstory you expect from a nameless reality show contestant, granting you carte blance to kill your competitors? Are bad words in dialogues censored for the Wall Show or for Twitch? When have you last been actually in control?


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