Thank you! (Gaming)

by cheapLEY , Wednesday, January 04, 2017, 18:59 (2880 days ago) @ Korny

I'd been meaning to talk about it again.

I initially loved Inside (and I still like it), but months of separation and time to actually think about the game leaves me feeling differently.

Inside is perhaps the most overhyped, overrated game this year. It's pretty, it's got great atmosphere, and that's about it. The puzzles straight up suck. They're not difficult, but more than that, most of them are nearly identical. They all boil down to running from one side of the screen to the other repeatedly, either to evade an enemy or to hit a switch. It's like they had one mechanic and stretched it much too far. The only really fun part of the game was the end, and that was about four minutes long.

Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed the game, but the amount of love it got during end of the year discussions is astounding. It is nowhere near the masterpiece it's being talked up as. It's just a more visually interesting Limbo with worse, overused puzzles. And don't even get me started on the "story."