BABBDI is a game created by the Lemaitre brothers, of whom I know nothing about and is as mysterious as the game itself, which to me works out well considering how interesting the game's atmosphere is. This is gonna be a shorty as it's a short game.
The story is literally just you need to leave the town of Babbdi, and to do that you need to find train tickets. The plot isn't really important as it's mostly just an excuse to run around and explore your environment. This'll be where I get into the gameplay now: what you'll be doing for the most part is jumping around and exploring the small town/city block of Babbdi, and that goes from free running to using Pickaxes to climb walls to driving motorcycles you find around. You can find secret objects as well as interact with the townspeople who mutter the strangest s h i t I can think of; a lot of which you can find just from messing about and taking strange paths around the city that feel both intuitive and non-intuitive (this game is a speed runner's wet dream, they literally give you a baseball bat to hit walls for speed as well as a vacuum to float and a spinning thing to run really fast). The one thing I can say was that this game was funny as hell, as for a good portion of it I had found a Trumpet I think and just went to town hitting the high notes (of which you can switch between three different styles of music) while doing parkour and eventually falling down (no fall damage by the way). That's kind of basically just what you do, it's basic but for the most part it's serviceable and works in tandem with the atmosphere, basically it's a walking/climbing sim.
Sound Design/Graphics section? The sound design is creepy sounding in certain areas. You'll hear lots of muttering and sim sounding dialogue while hearing strange droning going on in the background. With the whole art style they have going (which of course is PS1 looking low poly stuff), it's effective in it's Eastern Europeanesque atmosphere it's trying to get off. To me, I like it.
I don't really know what else to say about this game except it's interesting and if you're into small projects and you want to play a game that you can mess around, climb buildings and explore passageways you didn't think you'd find then try it out. It's not long and it's free so that's an added bonus. I guess the only thing I can really add that could be a negative is that not every place you go to is going to be populated with objects to interact with, sometimes you'll just see empty buildings or whatever but again it's pretty solid and all around strange. Most of my play through consisted of me saying "What the hell is going on" and "This is some strange s h i t" as well as "Damn they really detailed this trumpet didn't they?". All in all, it's impressive and though it maybe strange and empty at times I really liked it.
From Steam Reviews: https://steamcommunity.com/id/gamemast15r/recommended/
The story is literally just you need to leave the town of Babbdi, and to do that you need to find train tickets. The plot isn't really important as it's mostly just an excuse to run around and explore your environment. This'll be where I get into the gameplay now: what you'll be doing for the most part is jumping around and exploring the small town/city block of Babbdi, and that goes from free running to using Pickaxes to climb walls to driving motorcycles you find around. You can find secret objects as well as interact with the townspeople who mutter the strangest s h i t I can think of; a lot of which you can find just from messing about and taking strange paths around the city that feel both intuitive and non-intuitive (this game is a speed runner's wet dream, they literally give you a baseball bat to hit walls for speed as well as a vacuum to float and a spinning thing to run really fast). The one thing I can say was that this game was funny as hell, as for a good portion of it I had found a Trumpet I think and just went to town hitting the high notes (of which you can switch between three different styles of music) while doing parkour and eventually falling down (no fall damage by the way). That's kind of basically just what you do, it's basic but for the most part it's serviceable and works in tandem with the atmosphere, basically it's a walking/climbing sim.
Sound Design/Graphics section? The sound design is creepy sounding in certain areas. You'll hear lots of muttering and sim sounding dialogue while hearing strange droning going on in the background. With the whole art style they have going (which of course is PS1 looking low poly stuff), it's effective in it's Eastern Europeanesque atmosphere it's trying to get off. To me, I like it.
I don't really know what else to say about this game except it's interesting and if you're into small projects and you want to play a game that you can mess around, climb buildings and explore passageways you didn't think you'd find then try it out. It's not long and it's free so that's an added bonus. I guess the only thing I can really add that could be a negative is that not every place you go to is going to be populated with objects to interact with, sometimes you'll just see empty buildings or whatever but again it's pretty solid and all around strange. Most of my play through consisted of me saying "What the hell is going on" and "This is some strange s h i t" as well as "Damn they really detailed this trumpet didn't they?". All in all, it's impressive and though it maybe strange and empty at times I really liked it.
From Steam Reviews: https://steamcommunity.com/id/gamemast15r/recommended/