This review contains spoilers

(joke review)
I FUCKING LOVE GAMES THAT EXPLORE DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES AND TELL US TO BE OPEN TO PEOPLE AND THEIR EMOTIONS

I WANNA HELP PEOPLE FOR MONEY AND RESTORE CULTURES AND HISTORY

(actual review)
So this game is.... hard to explain. Both because of its complexity as well as its experience being VERY spoiler reliant. So with this I'm gonna make 2 reviews, one for the game for people who want to experience it for themselves, and the other for people who just wanna hear what I have to say

So Slay the Princess is a game where you are told to slay a princess, thats all I can say about it. It's incredibly choice driven with tons of surrealist twists and turns within it, and its hard to elaborate cause that would kinda ruin it
But it's super interesting and cool and I'd recommend it.

(Spoiler review)
Slay the Princess is a game about how perception warps our reality, in this case it's literal. However we interpret the princess (or atleast we interpret the princess (keep this plural in mind)) is literally what creates her personality and appearance. Along with this, our personality also changes as well, everytime we die, or the world resets, not only does the princess change to our perspective, but also we gain a "voice", based on our experiences. These voices act alot like the narrator, in the sense that they try to guide us towards a specific direction, with each having their own name and personality. (Voice of the smitten, voice of the broken, etc.) Anyway, the princess is a being that is fueled by different perspectives, and at one point, you redo these chapters as a way to "build" her true form, and in a sense, gain more perspective too. By the end of the game, it's literally a confrontation of you and her, both arguing for your own perspective, and there for determining the fate of.. well basically everything. There's so much, I haven't haven't talked about the narrator or each of the different princesses or whatever, but, it's a really fucking interesting game and experience and I highly recommend it

Reviewed on Mar 29, 2024


1 Comment


1 month ago

Same!