Quick Look: Datura

PS Move game where you interact with things using a giant hand, named after a hallucinogenic and deadly flower? OK then...

Oh so pretty!

I'm not sure I'm any closer to understanding what this is after having watched this.

Dat (s)ura is a game

I'm feeling handsy today.

This looks...different :p

Seventh! YEEES!

gianthand.com

it's a website about...?

It's nice to see Giant Hand found work after Year Zero.

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@Ventilaator said:

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@DemiGodRaven: I was more concerned that he'd be typecast after all his gigs as a Super Smash Brothers boss.

not on youtube? :O

Looks curiously like a bunch of demo effects around a Dear Esther-type dealie. Interesting atmosphere.

Edit: Actually, this reminds me of 7th Guest a bit. Maybe its the hand..

Wow, this is Polish. It flew under my radar.

This just looks boring, not trying to "diss" the game but it just is missing somthing. Like journey, i cant quite explain why journey was fun to play, but this, meh

this looks...weird.

It's okay cop you can get a disembodied hand.

............?

I think i'm gona pass on this.

I...uh...what?

Very pretty :p

This looked of interest, but back to mindlesscraft.

At the very least this looks like more of a game than Dear Ester

Potatoes? Wouldn't truffles make more sense?

I love all the weird stuff that comes out on PS3. Sometimes you just don't feel like playing a typical game, so it's interesting to have something like this available. Reminds me that I really do need to get around to playing Journey soon.

I love that the PS3 has all these weird games. I don't wan't to play all of them but I love that they are there.

yo. better listen to daturah.

This game...

They should have called the game "Jimson Weed".

This looks pretty boring!

This feels like a video game version of the movie "Flatliners", so keep your eye out for a boy in a hoodie, he has an axe to grind/rocks to throw.

Do more drugs.

I always hoped someone would pick up on the weird, janky grabbing stuff gameplay groundwork that Trespasser laid down.

All I can think of watching this is the Addams Family. Also, Trespasser modelled the whole arm with amazing results.

Weird and pretty, I probably won't play it.

Datura - "Eight hours of staring at pig ass" - Jeff Gertsmann

that gameplay looks like shit.

Bought it, been liking it so far with the controller, but man is it clunky sometimes.

Imagine playing this game....after dropping a fuckton of acid (looks like the dev already did so).

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like...:

What is this? I really like how it looks but I don't really know what it's for.

Man, sure hope I get to throw potatoes at a pig when I die.

God DAMN that looked bad.

Yea.....Game looks like complete ass....

i think if this game cared less about the beauty and a little more on how the hand works it'd be quite a shock, but the i guess it looks beautiful for a reason.

Pig Hitting Simulator 2012

How many times does Patrick say "contextually" or other permutation of "context" during this Quick Look? Answer: Lots! It's like his crutch word for when he has nothing insightful to say but wants to sound smart.

So you just wander from cut-scene to cut-scene? That seems pretty boring. Even that driving sequence was just moving forward in a straight line.

Man Patrick really needs to take a closer look at the demoscene. That beginning description was almost intolerable.

Just.. no.

meh.