A rare game that actually has meaning to it, though you'll have to think about that for yourself as you play because it won't be crammed down your throat or handed to you. This is complex art. And in a Source first-person shooter, of all places. Let that tell you not to discount derivative seeming art, let that encourage you to abandon notions of high and low culture or whatever pretentious shitty attitude you have about these things. I recommend people play G String. It is a wonderful game, though I have to say it is deceptively more of a platformer than a shooter in a way that might be difficult for people not used to fucking around in Source games, like Garry's Mod or anything else, people not used , or never allowed by other games, to treat virtual space in games as playground jungle gyms will have a hard time liking or even understanding. No place in G String exists like a conventional videogame level, I think, and what you'll find is a surrealist scifi interpretation of realism that doesn't make sense to the gamer brain in all of us, so expect to be lost. But don't abandon that trained gamer brain yet, because, like I said, your experience in Source games will benefit you here as each level is designed around the fun verbs of stacking physics props, hopping on verticies that don't seem like they should allow you to stand on. You will be navigating these levels like you are trying to escape out of bounds, which is fun and perverse kind of and really cool to see a developer appreciate as an authentic way to design space and movement in games. This is a high recommendation!!! One of the best of 2020 for sure and a really rare and brave game in any year I believe.

Reviewed on Dec 22, 2020


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