Void Stranger article. extremely vague spoilers. it's more an honest recommendation post. please read it and then play the game, thanks.
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in reply to @highimpactsex's post:
I was getting the brain rot effect playing this during the weekend, and now day dreaming about it at work
and was like
Kastel would fking love this game I should drop them a message
but hey you got it already xd
bought the game a few days ago because of this and the steam review of an longtime acquaintance who beta-tested the game and wrote,
"This puzzle game does some REALLY cool things and has a lot of personality. But it breaks a few genre norms which for me make the world not that enjoyable to traverse. The resulting uncertainty also requires a lot of faith from the player."
i don't know if i have that faith, so i'm interested to find out
i made it to a credits tonight, and then decided to break for the night. i started thinking (i imagine partly because you mentioned her) about the tweet sylvie made earlier this year
"Game designers in the 80's.... they didn't really know what they were doing. Now everyone has become smart. And that's why games are worse"
i made a pretty meaningless rant on here months ago because of how much this spoke to me but it really is like, we've learned SO much about communication through game design over the past 40+ years. and even when those ideas aren't outright weaponized, i tend to feel like they've been overly refined and reified in the industry and even plenty of indie efforts. the results are games that feel like they're primarily about Being Good At Games or ensuring that players are confident they'll see everything that's "worth seeing"
it's refreshing to play something where the creators have considered a lot of these ideas deeply and have decided to use them to express things in a way that feels elegant, and almost effortless. even though if you think about it for one second it clearly isn't simple to do at all! and to so fearlessly use the other side of that too, because i do truly feel they're related ideas, of not offering the player the comfort of knowing...well, anything they haven't encountered for themselves.
i'm excited to continue on, and terrified at the same time. it's exhilarating. i really appreciate that you wrote this piece.
it’s awesome, yes. the discomforting experience of playing something new and unusual never goes away until you’re done with the game and it’s why i think it’ll be a cult classic.
thank you for quoting my essay thingy.... i finally finished void stranger yesterday and i've been overwhelmed with emotions, i struggled a lot and i have my grievances with it but it captures so much of what i love about games at such an awe-inspiring scale and depth
thanks for writing your essay in the first place! it helped me situate my own feelings on the game :-)
I am so intrigued by this game. I haven't gotten it yet. Going to clear some stuff I'm in the middle of. But it's like... Calling to me. I feel like your article enhanced that call further