Posted on: January 13, 2015
Shantih1
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Interactive fiction at its finest
The decision whether to purchase Gone Home might seem tricky based on its polarizing reviews. Here's what you really need to know about it to make your choice: 1) It's a game but it doesn't fit into many conventions of games, even adventures. The experience is closer to a novel, movie or back-to-back episodes of a quality TV show. If you get engaged with those means of storytelling, you'll be engaged by Gone Home. 2) Similarly, it tells a compelling story but relies on your attention and involvement. You receive fragments of the stories, but the game is structured to allow you to decide the significance of what you have discovered and read. This isn't the game to buy if you need your text to tell you what to think. (To define what that means: if you disliked the ending of Lost because you didn't get all the answers, you will be frustrated by Gone Home) 3) It utilizes tropes from haunted house and horror stories. That doesn't mean you're going to love it if you're a horror game fan; since most horror gaming relies on jumps and scares rather than tropes. Tropes are the setting and context: it's a dark, foreboding space where your imagination fills in many of the gaps. The closest comparison I could make is to the early stages Robbing the Cradle level in Thief: Deadly Shadows. That level relied extensively on horror tropes to build up a sense of tension and dread, before becoming something different in its second half. It's not a spoiler to suggest that Gone Home plays out its tropes in a different way, but it constantly succeeds in grabbing your imagination. I love Gone Home; I think it's the most compelling game experience of the past few years. It is, indeed, quite a short game but that's an important point in its favor. It has been carefully, and specifically designed to be a complete exploration of the story at hand. Perhaps that's why journalists and writers have been more spellbound than traditional gamers? It's an astounding piece of interactive fiction.
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