wait wait wait... is it a game, or what? First, we should have all I need: an adventure, a point and click and horror trama. But this thing is kidding me or the entire genre. Fortunately I received it for free, but I spent too much time in playing it. The game looks and feels incomplete, in the first minute you cannot understand what and how you have to do. You find the usual locked door, you find the usual key under the rock, you enter in a room where you have to start spam click the screen to understand how to go forward, until, don't ask me why, you have to use the axe on the bed... Wha... What?!? Seriously?!? I quit, and uninstalled
I (fortunately) got this game for free, cause my review would be followed with a refund inquiry. Let me explain what kind of game is this. They write an RPG. No, it doesn't, at all. They state is an action. No, well, not the action you mean. This is the kind of title, that could be sold as a movie, instead, tease gamers they will find action. 40 minutes of download and 16 minutes of play. Hey, dear developer, the first minutes tell all about the success of a game. They must be the pinnacle of the gaming experience, cause in the first minutes, the crowd will understand if it is rubbish, or fun to play. Yes, just about this topic: to play! 16 minutes where 12 minutes were cutscenes (amazing, nothing to say), and 4 minutes were: click this now at this way. Seriously?!?
During the gamer's life, to get the "achievement" of a "hardcore gamer", you should have played at least one game in every genre. You want it to be an RTS, an adventure point and click or the most ferocious modern FPS, your path is that way. But, that is not all. Genres mean main characters as well. And you have some that you cannot ignore or pretend it doesn't exist. Sonic, Mario Bros (yes, I'm old), Abe or Grim Fandango, just to name a few. Rayman is Ubisoft's main character featuring a body with no arms, legs or neck, though he has hands, feet, and a head. Origins is a platform game, best played with the use of a gamepad, with rich and colourful graphics, all packed with an original Hawaiian style soundtrack. If you are used to playing on a console, you'll feel immediately at home: autosave, restart from the last point, bonus and loading windows, are all here. Rayman Origins doesn't like large screen setup, so I had to play the game in a 1920x1080 window but is ok, cause this is the "casual" game that you run when you want to jump quickly into some game, without long waiting stages for matchmaking or finding a server. Did I like it? Yes is absolutely fun, but on condition to have a gamepad close to your computer. With the keyboard is just fun, but playable.
I usually love platform games, and when I see a new release in this genre, I don't wait too long before watching trailers, screenshots and buying it. Well, Never Alone struck me for its story, and during the game the player is driven by a storyteller, unveiling all the secrets and magicians around the Alaska native people. The game graphics are just gorgeous, and the "usually smooth" gameplay is alternated here and there by some action, in which u have to act and take decisions quickly. Yes, it deserved its price and I can just recommend it.
Usually, someone would start the review by talking about the story and how the game starts. But even though it is about 4 hours of play, a bit short, with nothing to say, I would talk about how disappointing the end it was to me. You start the game with the idea the trip is going you somewhere, but the story does not celebrate your expectations. The player is surrounded by a handpainted animated background showing different and breathless scenarios. The soundtrack is "just" good, compared with those graphics and gameplay, but overall the game is so attractive. Could I recommend it? Definitely yes, it was a great gaming experience for platform lovers.
aaah, good old fashion platform games. In the middle of the '90s, it was so popular in the arcade cabinet world. Then they disappeared or at least they leave the place to "modern games" like FPS, RTS, third person and so on. Until Limbo arrived. A masterpiece, where fancy graphics, theatrical orchestra soundtrack, insane minimum system requirements leave the place this time to gameplay focused experience. You play this small character in a black and white quiet environment, with an array of 6 movements and action keys to remember. There is no starting theater cinematics, no in-game boring and gameplay experience frustrating in-game cinematics! You are not part of an already movie-like scripted press-the-key-when-we-tell-you action game but completely absorbed by this quiet environment and by the story of this little white eyes character.
I had added this game to my wishlist, just after been watched its hilarious trailer. It deserved to be bought even before it's final release, and it is! The game maintains the same announced humor, and its puzzles are not so complex to put the player in crisis and disturb his storyline. Yes, it is one of the most deserving point and click game of recent times, especially in a landscape of titles where developers are in search of ultra-realistic graphics and special effects comparable to movie colossal. If you are a fan of the genre, it deserves every money required.
My review in the short version? Playdead!!! Damn, they are ahead of any other developer today, if we talk about platform genre. The atmosphere here in INSIDE is just incredibly addicting, just like it was in Limbo. The scenario is so blurry but at the same time painstaking detailed and narrated to through the backgrounds. Yes, long life to Playdead, and... give us more... We are waiting...
Epic, this game is just epic! The player is plunged into something looking like a deep, wicked, twisted nightmare, where, well, you know, during the dream all is possible. Even founding a mutilated creature sitting on a wheelchair with the head hidden into a big trumpet, struggling through the room while breathing. Is a puzzle game, yes! Is a platform in which you can walk everywhere, why not on walls or roof? Hey, is a nightmare at the end! The graphics are gorgeous, in black and white style and the storyline is harmonized with no soundtrack. Just the environment sounds and, yes! Is already enough to infuse the right amount of anxiety and madness to the player. Well done guys!
