That's what makes it so hard for me. I love Lynch and I love "magical reality". I love stuff like Twin Peaks or Push Nevada or the game Harvester (or most 90s adventure games, really, since they were all inspired by Twin Peaks). I think I just was getting frustrated because I have a hard time with non-game adventure games that still expect you to do certain things. Like, I don't feel like the game or the world needs to make sense, but my avatar does. I need to know what they know or else I am not them, and they are not me. I'm suddenly a disembodied something-or-other that is observing this thing, but also kind of controlling it?
I'll give it another shot. Sometimes it takes me a few tries to get into something.
Yeah, I can see that. There are things in the game that Conway has experienced the are gradually revealed to the player, but it's implied that he's possibly repressing certain things, so to me it seems OK. Maybe you won't like that?
Glad to hear you're giving it another go though. It's a really cool game, but I can totally understand why people wouldn't be into it.
@bananasfoster: It's about a man who's delivering a package. He's told that to get where he needs to go he needs to take the zero, but no one actually knows where the zero is. That's the set up at least, and most of the first episode revolves around that. It's a thing that doesn't try to explain itself well, and as such I have a hard time explaining it with out spoiling anything ha. A lot of the overall plot hasn't been fully explained yet though. There are theories, but explaining those would require spoilers.
There are supernatural elements to it, it has a lot of 'magical realism', i.e it's set in an analog of reality but when strange things happen the characters either don't react or are immediately accepting of it. It's a really weird thing, so I can't draw direct comparisons to any other games as a reference point, but it feels very Lynchian in places.
If you're into weird shit and point & click story games then it's worth sticking with.
@bananasfoster: You're supposed to go to the farm or the mines depending on which bit you're talking about. I'm not gonna try and sell it to you, I'll just say give it another shot. If you can get through the first episode without it getting it's hooks into you then it just might not be for you.
@frobitz: I'm as big a KRZ fan as anyone you'll ever meet, but there's no way I'm getting excited for act 4 until it's installed on my SSD. It's been over a year duder, those dudes work on their own time. 'Soon' could mean anything ha.
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