It's 1972 and a military coup has rocked Anchuria. You, Angela Burnes, are trapped in the metropolitan capital of San Bavón. Your paradise has turned into a warzone. You take up a job as a housekeeper. Every week, an hour before sunset, you clean the swanky bachelor pad of the wealthy Gabriel Ortega.
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I don't know why people hate it that much? It was pretty nice, to my surprise! It may seem boring, but I find it pretty creative and... it feels personal? I don't know how to explain. I really enjoyed it in some way
One of these weird dream who is boring in a way that it's not confortable, but still keep you to it, and use this feeling in his progression, story and is part of the identity of the game.
It settles a mood, the routine finish to wire your brain and make each little difference between day pop up more. The game is slow, minimalist in term of element or interaction, but yet surprising.
It's unique and a big mood. If you want video game experience that can only be made through video game, this is on of these beautiful game.
It settles a mood, the routine finish to wire your brain and make each little difference between day pop up more. The game is slow, minimalist in term of element or interaction, but yet surprising.
It's unique and a big mood. If you want video game experience that can only be made through video game, this is on of these beautiful game.
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This certainly shouldn't have caused its studio's demise, but having played it twice I find it really frustrating. The central gameplay premise is promising: there's a revolution happening, but you're a housekeeper. You watch history unfold through the windows of your wealthy employer's magnificent vintage apartment. As you accomplish your mundane tasks, you hear your character's nuanced thoughts on the world around her. Maybe you decide not to accomplish those tasks after all and just sit around on your employer's plush furniture. Listen to his records. You know, role-playing.
The trouble is, the game insists on tying its protagonist in with the revolution story that's going on outside. Her brother is a revolutionary and she has the opportunity to use her connection to her employer to help him. This feels like a lack of commitment to me: a sop to notions of "player agency," when what really matters here is the protagonist's inner life and not her influence over the world around her.
Worse, the game invites us to make a series of binary choices that inform a romance subplot that makes absolutely no sense for the character. Again, a sop to the notion of "agency." I would have far preferred to be given choices for how to spend my time in this apartment that have no ultimate consequence for the story but that reflect the protagonist's interiority in some way.
Sunset is a complicated thing that I wish I liked better. It's well worth playing, because there's nothing like a noble failure.
The trouble is, the game insists on tying its protagonist in with the revolution story that's going on outside. Her brother is a revolutionary and she has the opportunity to use her connection to her employer to help him. This feels like a lack of commitment to me: a sop to notions of "player agency," when what really matters here is the protagonist's inner life and not her influence over the world around her.
Worse, the game invites us to make a series of binary choices that inform a romance subplot that makes absolutely no sense for the character. Again, a sop to the notion of "agency." I would have far preferred to be given choices for how to spend my time in this apartment that have no ultimate consequence for the story but that reflect the protagonist's interiority in some way.
Sunset is a complicated thing that I wish I liked better. It's well worth playing, because there's nothing like a noble failure.
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