Top 50 Favorites: #36
If you're able to make voiceless 2D squares complex, deeply emotional characters then that's more than enough to give it a pass for me. I grew up on Newgrounds, Notdoppler, and the like just totally addicted to flash games in middle school - so I found this to be deeply nostalgic in a way that's hard to replicate. Feels both like it's paying homage to that genre of games as well as innovating enough to feel right at home on console. Indies during this time were really pulling their weight and taking risks - leading to surreal, almost ethereal experiences like this. Funny, beautiful, and intuitive. Wish more indies these days leaned as far into the experimental as these were doing back then.
If you're able to make voiceless 2D squares complex, deeply emotional characters then that's more than enough to give it a pass for me. I grew up on Newgrounds, Notdoppler, and the like just totally addicted to flash games in middle school - so I found this to be deeply nostalgic in a way that's hard to replicate. Feels both like it's paying homage to that genre of games as well as innovating enough to feel right at home on console. Indies during this time were really pulling their weight and taking risks - leading to surreal, almost ethereal experiences like this. Funny, beautiful, and intuitive. Wish more indies these days leaned as far into the experimental as these were doing back then.