Source: ready-up.net --- Friday, August 31, 2018
As I sit here on a boat from Amsterdam to Newcastle, I can’t help but reflect on how crazy the last week has been. I got to visit GamesCom this year for the first time ever, and while I was there on business and didn’t get that much spare time, I made sure that I got to play some games. Below are my picks. Unto the End Unto the End is the first game I got to play under the Indie Garden banner published by Digital Uppercut , and it spoke to me a lot in a few ways. Firstly, the dev team are a Canadian couple, who packed up their jobs and travelled the world while making this game over the course of the last 2 years. This is somewhat reflective of my own life right now and may colour my view of the game as they were super lovely people and gave me lots of travel advice while I played. However, I think you can see the inspirations of Scandinavian Europe and other area of their travels come through strongly in the game. The title itself is about a man who has been stranded away from his wife and child and is trying to make his way home to them. There’s a deeper narrative going on here, but in a 30-minute demo, I didn’t get to see much more into it than that. The dev team likened the game to Inside meets the movie The Revenant, and I can see those influences in an artistic and narrative sense coming through, but mechanically it’s a platforming title with fighting mechanics. There is a certain element of exploration involved, but the m ...
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