[Aptorian]

I am somewhere around half way into this game and it's really making my brain work over time.

It's a "portal-style" puzzler with an over arching narrative that connects hundreds of arenas in which you have to use the tools avalable to you to collect a form of keys.

That in and of it self makes for an interesting game, because the puzzles are very well made. What makes it stand out however is the games story and themes.

You are a machine that awakens within what might be post-human earth or might be a simulation. A god like figure speaks to you from the heavens and commands you to solve his puzzles and achieve enlightenment and everlasting life. And that is when you realize you are in a game that is having a high level discussion about life and death. Consciousness and purpose. Who are you? What makes you "you"? What is the meaning of life? Do we have free will? Etc. It's part theological discussion, part philosophy, part sci-fi and part a story about the end of mankind.

It's all very confusing, sad, scary and curious at the same time.

I read an e-mail about two scientists discussing whether creating a lasting memory of mankind was really worth it, both on a moral, religious and scientific level and then I looked up from the terminal and looked on a giant Egyptian pyramid and began to think really hard about what the Egyptians were really doing 5000 years ago.

Also I have been exchanging chat messages with somebody who may or may not be a digital lucifer.

Somebody go play this game and tell me what you think.

(It's 20 dollars on Steam)

This post has been edited by Apt: 06 April 2015 - 08:09 PM

[LinearPhilosopher]

This game is probably the best purchase i've ever made on steam.

Im a lover of puzzle games and i thoroughly enjoyed solving the puzzles. Even if solving invovled 30 minutes of me being frustrated as all hell before realising the solution was incredibly simple...................... Then there's the infamous, spend 1hr solving, taking a break, coming back the next day and figuring it out in a minute...........

As a philosopher i loved the frequent quotes and references. I was sold on the fact that this game apparently quotes kant. I must be very innatentive as i didn't find it.

The only thing i found really frustrating was in the conversations with the snake, you're forced to answer these philosophical question using pre made answers that i knew were all insufficient. Kinda annoying as it's impossible for me to give a good definition of life when i know those asnwers. Oh well thats more of a personal gripe and not something i'd count against the game itself. Rather for the average player im sure there's much in terms of revelation to be gained from playing this game.

[Aptorian]

BalrogLord, on 06 April 2015 - 10:18 PM, said:

The only thing i found really frustrating was in the conversations with the snake, you're forced to answer these philosophical question using pre made answers that i knew were all insufficient. Kinda annoying as it's impossible for me to give a good definition of life when i know those asnwers. Oh well thats more of a personal gripe and not something i'd count against the game itself. Rather for the average player im sure there's much in terms of revelation to be gained from playing this game.

I resorted to being resigned in these conversations.

When it asked me how to define various things that obviously could not be that easily quantified, I answered as such. Which the hidden character grudgingly accepted but he has begun to mock me for being indecisive now.

I love that these multiple choice discussions continue further and further into the story. It's making me evaluate myself as much as the character,

[Maark Abbott]

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