Thirty Flights of Boring more like

With all the game of the year deliberations going on lately, I'm sure you've all heard thirty flights of loving come up at least a couple times, with people praising it as "innovative" and exclaiming that it has "groundbreaking storytelling". Well clearly I'm missing something, because what I just played for 15 minutes was a disjointed and stiff game that cost me $4.99. I had heard a lot of great things about this game leading up to me purchasing it and playing it, so I was really excited to see what kind of fresh method of storytelling this game could bring to the games industry, as something this industry needs is new and exciting ways to tell a story. The story is told through vague, disjointed (what are essentially) interactive cutscenes. After completing the 15 minute long story, I was had a fair idea of the plot, however the story was (in my opinion) so vague that I had to search online for the answers to some of the questions I had, such as "what the hell just happened". From what I gathered after playing the game (and what I ended up looking online for) is that the plot is centered around a three person crime team smuggling alcohol (the brand is named Midnight Hobo) into the German bar they operate out of during a prohibition. The team executes a grand heist and things don't go nearly as well as planned (no spoilers I promise). You play as a nameless and silent protaginist, and the team is made up of two others, who's names are Anita and Borges. Anita is the love interest of the protaginist, and it is suggested that the player and her are both casual friends and sexually attracted to one another. It is also shown in a well done cutscene (one of the best I think along with Borges' cutscene which is similar) that she is the technical weapons expert of the group. Borges (and his mighty beard!) is the getaway driver and operations specialist for the three. He is possibly the leader of the group and a good friend of the player (this is shown later in the game when the player makes a certain choice, perhaps showing the player is more emotionally and professionaly invested with Borges than Anita). All interaction with Borges takes place within the mission aspects of the game, while interaction with Anita is almost entirely in the non-criminal scenes of the game.

So all in all, I'm not really sure how I feel about this game, but I would say I ws rather let down. Now, I know earlier it perhaps seemed I was rather disgruntled with this game. Don't get me wrong, I don't HATE the game, I just don't think it is worth $4.99 or a game of the year nod.

With all the game of the year deliberations going on lately, I'm sure you've all heard thirty flights of loving come up at least a couple times, with people praising it as "innovative" and exclaiming that it has "groundbreaking storytelling". Well clearly I'm missing something, because what I just played for 15 minutes was a disjointed and stiff game that cost me $4.99. I had heard a lot of great things about this game leading up to me purchasing it and playing it, so I was really excited to see what kind of fresh method of storytelling this game could bring to the games industry, as something this industry needs is new and exciting ways to tell a story. The story is told through vague, disjointed (what are essentially) interactive cutscenes. After completing the 15 minute long story, I was had a fair idea of the plot, however the story was (in my opinion) so vague that I had to search online for the answers to some of the questions I had, such as "what the hell just happened". From what I gathered after playing the game (and what I ended up looking online for) is that the plot is centered around a three person crime team smuggling alcohol (the brand is named Midnight Hobo) into the German bar they operate out of during a prohibition. The team executes a grand heist and things don't go nearly as well as planned (no spoilers I promise). You play as a nameless and silent protaginist, and the team is made up of two others, who's names are Anita and Borges. Anita is the love interest of the protaginist, and it is suggested that the player and her are both casual friends and sexually attracted to one another. It is also shown in a well done cutscene (one of the best I think along with Borges' cutscene which is similar) that she is the technical weapons expert of the group. Borges (and his mighty beard!) is the getaway driver and operations specialist for the three. He is possibly the leader of the group and a good friend of the player (this is shown later in the game when the player makes a certain choice, perhaps showing the player is more emotionally and professionaly invested with Borges than Anita). All interaction with Borges takes place within the mission aspects of the game, while interaction with Anita is almost entirely in the non-criminal scenes of the game.

So all in all, I'm not really sure how I feel about this game, but I would say I ws rather let down. Now, I know earlier it perhaps seemed I was rather disgruntled with this game. Don't get me wrong, I don't HATE the game, I just don't think it is worth $4.99 or a game of the year nod.

damn, that's a clever title.

I should get to trying this out

oh and sic burn bro

I feel like you're simultaneously over- and under-thinking Thirty Flights.

You still went out of your way to piece the narrative together so maybe the game is a victory but not in the way you expected.

Yeah, it's a neat little game, not really worth the price, definitely overrated. Make sure to play gravity bone also, it's included with it if you bought it on steam and I think it's better.

Completely agree, and so disappointing. When I played gravity bone I thought that developer was a genius and would go on to do other equally brilliant stuff - not make a £4 sort of sequel that rehashes the tricks and is even worse overall.

You could watch this game on youtube and it would be exactly the same experience.