It has been a long road. However, all stories must come to an end.
Posted on: July 17, 2020
pjdodd
Verified ownerGames: 107 Reviews: 64
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War is hell and so is my experience of this game. This War Of Mine is very, very worthy and grimy (sans Multicultural London English accents and sportswear) and wants to gently press your face into the horror of war with an intense sober look on it's face (much like the look on the face of an History teacher if you sniggered at the names of the architects of the holocaust). Sure This War Of Mine avoids outright pretentiousness and takes pains to go into detail about the detail of the thing about the detail of the event in the detail of this war.. and yet with all the reportage, monochrome aesthetic and asthmatic writing I always suspected that the devs had carefully removed their berets and well-thumbed copies of philosophical tracts before actual development but the lingering effects are just after every mouse click in tiny echoes of pretentiousness. (Now that's pretentious!) I found this game never amounted to very much but then I've read a lot of history books (no I am neither a history teacher nor a book reviewer) and perhaps my expectations were different. Or maybe I was expecting something that wasn't fundamentally a zombie survival horror game, without the zombies, that had fewer constantly decaying "life" meters whose constantly depleting display of life force would have accurately mirrored my own will to live while playing this game.
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