In a year that brought about continued experimentation in gaming, as well as refinements of a style, it was arguably a throwback that charmed me more.
"Return to Monkey Island," the revitalization of a franchise that had lain dormant since 2009, was a glorious callback to a largely bygone era of point-and-click adventure games.
The original 1990 game,"The Secret of Monkey Island," was a landmark in video game storytelling, a work that asked us, with a few very notable exceptions, not to solve byzantine puzzles but to use perplexing situations to build relationships, often with humor.
As the story unfolds there are hints at something more sinister beneath the surface, but"Immortality" also feels topical. It deals with workplace abuse, personal identity, labor issues and our society's inability to often see beyond the superficial. Barlow has cited Rita Hayworth and her sculpted and shape-shifting image as an inspiration, as well as some of her off-camera turmoil.
"Wayward Strand" reminded me a bit of interactive immersive theater — the long-running New York production"Sleep No More" was an influence, say its creators. Early on,"Wayward Strand" throws players a curve when a character suggests that those we meet will give us tasks to complete. But those tasks never materialize.
"We tried to keep it fairly short, so if somebody did miss something they could play it again," Baker says."But the vibe of the game — the themes of the game — are about being OK with only having a limited window or perspective on a particular reality and living with that and thinking about that.
We're tossed in a world with a number of dark underpinnings. Our hero's mother has gone missing; his father has died. And an abandoned factory on the outskirts of town has suddenly been revived, only it's leaking neon-green goo that can have drastic effects on everything it touches.
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