Creepy OuterWilds-like that constantly had me feeling like I was both sequence-breakingly clever and completely in the dark about how this world works. Also has a bitchin' soundtrack and a tonally confusing obsession with titties. If Hades is the Gideon the Ninth of video games, Void Stranger is the Harrow the Ninth.
Stopped playing because I stumbled into hard mode, where there's little to do but grind out those sokoban GIMP puzzles while feeling the literal energy drain from the mental crunch of it all. Still a mind-blowing experience for what I got out of it. How dare she choose the fetus
Stopped playing because I stumbled into hard mode, where there's little to do but grind out those sokoban GIMP puzzles while feeling the literal energy drain from the mental crunch of it all. Still a mind-blowing experience for what I got out of it. How dare she choose the fetus
This game is really great in myriad ways--not least of all in the art direction and OST--and the only thing preventing it from being an instant favorite is the raw fatigue factor from spending 80 hours racking my brain over puzzles I was hardly qualified to solve in the first place. For a game that was already way out of my comfort zone from minute 0, I had a nice time.
This game genuinely blew me away. For a good while I thought it was a pretty neat and stylised puzzle game, but then the game shows its hand and starts doing some really cool stuff. There are definitely many elements of the game which are quite obtuse and my experience was heightened by having a friend to hint me through parts of it, but I think as a game this is really special and will undoubtedly become a cult classic in the future.
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