Review giopep 5/5 · Dec 4, 2023
This is amazing. It manages to squeeze a gripping narrative from the act of parsing old docs, it’s really good in telling its story, it lets you play with prototypes and put your hands on stuff that is usually not accessible, it contains well emulated classics and also adds two very good modern remakes, that let you play in a …
Read moreThis is amazing. It manages to squeeze a gripping narrative from the act of parsing old docs, it’s really good in telling its story, it lets you play with prototypes and put your hands on stuff that is usually not accessible, it contains well emulated classics and also adds two very good modern remakes, that let you play in a more welcoming way games from forty years ago. It’s full of great ideas and unexpected ways of deconstructing an old game. I hope they will make dozens of these, if only because it seems like it could be a very versatile approach, with very different ways of doing a similar thing. Ah, also, playing this after having read Replay, Jordan Mechner's autobiographical graphic novel, was sooo good. A great companion piece.
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