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Loved

We Can Begin Again

Type:
Flash
Developer:
Alexander Ocias

Here's a good game for those who have experienced abusive relationships or sit alone in the dark listening to the ending mantra of Antichrist Superstar with its "know when you are suffering... that I... have betrayed you" while contemplating a Shriek scenario. Loved does what indie games do best, take the platformer genre and then use it to weave an existential mind-fuck. The level design follows the similar series of incremental steps in difficulty, except this time the real difficulty derives from a series of choices you have to make regarding a voice's commands. Do you obey or disobey? When it tells you to do something sensible, will you obey that, or are you disobeying on principle? The actual platforming becomes a bit challenging at times but is nothing a veteran of the genre can't handle, the real challenge is in making sense of the thing.


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every day the same dream

The Existential Despair of the Sarariman

Type:
Flash
Developer:
Molleindustria

I think I want to be Paolo Pedercini when I grow up. Of course, he's younger than I am, so I guess that's not going to work.

He knocked off this game in a few days as an Experimental Gameplay Project entry. It is a more emotionally compelling -- chilling, rather -- experience than the much-touted Passage -- at least for me. Passage is an evocation of the tritest idea of romantic love. every day the same dream is an evocation of the alienation of modern suburban life.


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