The most interesting thing about Facade is when you decide to stop taking it seriously and just use it as a platform to goof off. Even then new games boot up at a glacier pace and you can only "restart" by quitting the game and opening it again.
Cool concept, I guess? But a little too limited for its own good. At least it gave us Vinesacue Joel screaming "BROTHERRRRRRRRRRRRRRR," though.
Cool concept, I guess? But a little too limited for its own good. At least it gave us Vinesacue Joel screaming "BROTHERRRRRRRRRRRRRRR," though.
Props for being unique I guess, but this suffers from one major flaw: it doesn't feel very interactive. It doesn't feel like what the player says really affects what the other characters say, and which direction the story takes ends up feeling mostly random. The only time I felt like I was actually influencing events was when I did stupid stuff like stand at the door forever without coming in or relentlessly trolling Trip. i.e. the only time I felt like I was interacting with the game was when I was messing around with it, which I'm pretty sure wasn't what the creator had in mind.
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"I let you stop me from being an artist. I was afraid, Trip, okay? I admit it. I didn't know if I could do it, be a real artist. And I've been using you as an excuse for why I didn't do it."
An interesting first ending to get (from a bunch of them but this is the first time I'm playing this title) and a game which, so far from what I've experienced, uses the limitations of its parser to charactherize the husband and wife as self centered individuals that fall deeper into the cause of their own marital problems as the night goes on. I wonder if the husband gets to tell an interesting background if I were to interfere in any other way.
An interesting first ending to get (from a bunch of them but this is the first time I'm playing this title) and a game which, so far from what I've experienced, uses the limitations of its parser to charactherize the husband and wife as self centered individuals that fall deeper into the cause of their own marital problems as the night goes on. I wonder if the husband gets to tell an interesting background if I were to interfere in any other way.
what has my life come to? what happened to hitman 3 and cold steel 2?
i dont know what came over me to play this but i decided to for some reason. i felt like i was gonna get murdered, the entire thing is a spooky yet funny trainwreck. the controls are awful, the visuals are janky, somehow i ended up kissing the girl and hugging the guy like 30 times before they kicked me out. theres not much else to say. certainly "an experience"
i dont know what came over me to play this but i decided to for some reason. i felt like i was gonna get murdered, the entire thing is a spooky yet funny trainwreck. the controls are awful, the visuals are janky, somehow i ended up kissing the girl and hugging the guy like 30 times before they kicked me out. theres not much else to say. certainly "an experience"
lol very good. genuinely disturbing to be just caught in the middle of these two's issues and revelations...funny to just walk off and ignore them... say random stuff.. side with one person over another. Hard to tell exactly how I'm derailing/moving the conversation - but that's also part of the charm. Would be nice if being kicked out wasn't so sudden and if you could reset the game faster.
It's called Facade because it's the front part of the exterior of a building, but also because there's clearly something else going on behind it. Very Lynchian in nature but much more known for the impact that this game has had on Internet meme culture. I give it five bags of popcorn and probably a can of Seven Up for good measure.