Quick Look: Cradle

Woooooo!

Just listened to the Beastcast discussion on this, sounds super interesting to me.

Welp, that screenshot is terrifying.

Uh oh, Vinny's doing deep dives on lore again. Somebody fish him out.

This looks really interesting, gonna come back and watch after I get around to playing it.

@larrydavis: We're outta life preservers, cap'n!

I'm super down for this.

Recently started this, it's pretty great.

One thing I miss is the ability to actually place objects or lay them down instead of only throwing them around.

Only a couple minutes in and I'm thinking about stopping. Just based on Vinny's description at the beginning, I'm sold on this and kinda wanna go in blind.

I saw this getting featured on Siliconera a few months back. Really interested in this.

Wait... Mongolia? A dome with colored flags?

Kubla Khan's Xanadu anyone?

Seriously though it's a super famous poem. Check out the Wikipedia article.

We call it Voight-Kampff for short.

I hate when people poo-poo all over the concept of "amnesia" as a game device.

All it is, is tabula rasa. The story starts from nothing. Trying to have to come up with some narrative reason as to why you as the player are suddenly beginning the adventure in a certain place is a waste of time, at best, and a detriment to game construction at worst.

It's the same as "a long time ago in a land far, far away". Many, if not MOST stories, don't NEED more than that. In fact, adding more than that is at the detriment of the story. Brevity is the soul of wit, and good design is elegance.

It's a FAR BETTER CHOICE than games in which the player character knows things that the player does not, as many crappy games choose to do.

Wow, I wanna go to that place and take a vacation. Just to look at shit, you know!

I might pick this up.

Liked Gone Home story and setting but the idea of just having to read everything feels forced. At least with Gone Home I recall you were given a reason to look for stuff: you came home didn't know where everybody was. For this game I did not see any intro or anything. If I just woke up like that with no exposition, I would walk around a bit and then wait with my hands crossed until something happens. Gotta give me something, game!

I don't read.

The game seems cool but is there a way to make the text in the game bigger? I can already tell i'm gonna have a hard time reading anything if all of the text looks like it does in the quick look.

The reading stuff is almost entirely optional. There is always a very specific goal that the game very clearly tells you. I went through the game only reading things that the game pointed me to (which wasn't much) and still understood mostly everything.

Also, to those put off by those weird platforming cube sections (they get kinda repetitive after the first few times), you can skip them. The first time you lose one of them (you can lose if there are not enough cubes left in the world to turn in), it gives you the option to skip it.

I finished this a couple of days ago and I really really like the world they made. If you don't read the things around the world you're not going to get much out of the ending.

Koch is a reference to Christof Koch, the neural correlate of consciousness researcher.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_correlates_of_consciousness

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christof_Koch

This game looks amazing, added to backlog. Thanks Vinny!

Looks really cool

Ooh! I'm getting a Nier-vibe from the story beats revealed in this QL. Cool.

@austin_walker and anyone else, If you're interested in a anime with a similar theme, that deals with transfer of memories and bodies and their treatment as a commodity you should check out Kaiba. It has a very different more abstracted art style from other anime but it totally suits the theme. The overarching plot stumbles a bit on the end, but the individual vignettes each episode are really interesting.

Looks cool indeed. Seems like a perfect sunday morning game to me (puzzles, good narrative and short, that is. It's my sunday jam)

The sky train makes a return!

@icantbestopped: Me either. I mean... what?

10 minutes in and I'm sold.

This looks super cool

I was hoping they'd do a Quick Look of this ever since it showed up on Steam. Much hype.

Gosh, I want to play an open-world exploration-focused rpg set in this world.

This QL sold me on the game after just 15 mins.

This game looks awesome .

Oh man, that is an authentic as all hell Gehr (Mongolian Yurt)!

I'm sold.

You think that's air you're breathing?

The amusement park design reminds of of the Al Bhed from FFX.

I love and hate how English speakers can't pronounce a CH

Some of us can... but only if you're Scottish or Irish really (because the sound is used in some traditional words and names from this part of the world).

Eg: 'Loch'.

1:23 in and I'm interested

Its sort of has an Enslaved vibe to it, aesthetically

If everything blew up when he threw it, Vinny would be like Master Shake in this.

Looks really neat.

It cheats!

God damn, I wish I could play this.

This looks cool.

I'm loving this game. The 'block mini-game' really put me off at first. But I feel like it just wasn't tutorialized well; once it 'clicks' it's a lot of fun.

So is this more a puzzle game or that Gone Home bullshit?

This looks pretty amazing and insane and even a little creepy, all at the same time.