Posted on: January 17, 2024
Crispytofu64
Verified ownerGames: 351 Reviews: 13
Transcendental recursive experience
Played the demo on Garuda Linux using Wine 8.2 staging and had no single problem/glitch. Options are usable and not overloaded. German display text/subtitles are good. I know, it's in the title, but I really did not expect to be escaping through an infinitely recursive world. For me, this demo was a unique stunning experience. I am blown away by how this world repeats itself. It's a 1PP platformer-like game with 3D controls, running/jumping, carrying and throwing cubes into blue pupils, 360-rotating camera. It has 2 additional world transformations which are used to change pathways for progress. Rooms follow seamlessly onto one another. Players need to make use of the recursiveness like throwing the cube through the left window, walking through the energy barrier and picking up the cube on the right side. The very first part is somewhat creepy, finding myself as the protagonist in his gloomy living room about a dozen years in future from now. How can this dude survive his lack of vitamin D? Before the game actually starts – heck, the game is actually a game inside the game!, for recursion's sake, smelling like they could intend a loop – I needed to interact with all content in the room, before I could turn on the game. I was confused that I needed to trigger monologs of other talking beings 3 to 6 times in sequence, such as with Behemoth (a cat like in "The Master and Margarita") or Elrich (the 4-armed eunuch musician made of cracked porcelain), to achieve progress. Themes are somewhat neutral towards religions and world views I think. The overall visual design is quite confounding me, interesting. It makes heavy use of symmetric and recursive patterns, such as the Menger Spronge in a caleidoscopic arrangement. Puzzles are not straight forward. It needs a bit of exploration but basically, the space repeats intself infinitely. The futility of going on the run ("seeking the distantness" as the German says) becomes gradually evident. I recommend and purchase it.
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