i always got this confused with Raitendo's flash port of Air Pressure before i played this. at least to someone who grew up so closely with kongregate, this felt like a huge figurehead of "art games" in my developing mind alongside the aforementioned air pressure and gregory weir's babies dream of dead worlds. short and sweet but there's probably a star or a half in this rating purely off of how important it was to me.
Yes i showed this to my friends when i was 17 yes everyone thought it was dumb
Yes i showed this to my friends when i was 17 yes everyone thought it was dumb
Recommended by a friend of mine over a decade ago and I never let him live it down, so this game is a minor (infamous) celebrity in our friend group.
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I see and understand that this game is kind of predictable or derivative or simplistic or whatever, but like, sometimes you don't need to push boundaries. no-one has to die is just a little nugget of a sci-fi thriller. It's not exceptional, no. It's not any better than it has to be, about the quality of a middling Twilight Zone episode. You can finish this game in a fraction of an hour. It's a snack. Normalize snacks.
A diet Zero Escape.
I cant be too harsh, after all it is a browser game meant for a very quick playthrough but I do wish the puzzles were a tad more difficult at times? Clearly taking all the inspiration here fron the Zero Escape games.
No-one has to Die is a lovely little 30min sci-fi story, reminiscent of say, Zero Escape. Its gameplay is simple but effective in conveying its story beats through its clever use of limitations. When the final "twist" to the mechanics coincides with the final "twist" and climax to the narrative well, thats just good design, frankly.
"Oh but its easy and short" so is eating a kitkat and I don't see anyone complain about those. Its as long as it needs to be and doesnt bloat itself with unnecessary padding in the story or bloated mechanics in the gameplay. Still to this day a lot of games could learn from this approach.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lwsr8wmHbcc
"Oh but its easy and short" so is eating a kitkat and I don't see anyone complain about those. Its as long as it needs to be and doesnt bloat itself with unnecessary padding in the story or bloated mechanics in the gameplay. Still to this day a lot of games could learn from this approach.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lwsr8wmHbcc
finished in like an hour during a class. good game ngl, bite-sized and that's always nice
Neat game. I won't judge it too harshly since it's a browser game but I wish the puzzles weren't so braindead easy. Cool mystery though and I liked the characters.
Primarily a text based game with some no-brainer puzzles and monochromatic graphics for each character. Storyline had the potential to be interesting, but the presentation of the ending(s) and reveals are underwhelming at best. Takes less than an hour to buzz through.