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Off Topic => General Off Topic => Topic started by: Moribund on February 16, 2012, 01:38:09 am

Title: Dear Esther
Post by: Moribund on February 16, 2012, 01:38:09 am
Just two hours but 8 € well spent.
Load up steam and watch the trailer.
One of the few times that game reviewers' dramatically shortened quotes are right.
Title: Re: Dear Esther
Post by: bilwit on February 16, 2012, 06:25:18 am
How different is it from the old one?
Title: Re: Dear Esther
Post by: Moribund on February 16, 2012, 09:40:32 am
I have no idea, because i did not play the old one.
They say it is a remake, but don't tell what parts have been remade.
Title: Re: Dear Esther
Post by: Jacko on February 16, 2012, 10:35:13 am
Didn't play the old, but bought this yesterday.

Amazing game.

From Rock Paper Shotgun, don't read the article if you don't want the 'plot' spoiled:

"Lonely tedium, that slow, slow walk through a stark land, leads to subconscious introspection. Ever walked along an empty beach at night? Sat alone on a hillside on a cold winter morning? Where did your mind go? Wherever it was, thatÂ’s where Dear Esther can take it. If you let it."

"Given I have no wish to play it again, nor do I understand why anyone else would, at $10 Dear Esther does seem, by standard metrics, too expensive for a mere 90 minutes or so of slow journey through a Hebridean island wilderness with only one possible outcome. Then again, the same money would buy me an hour and a half of going to watch a man dressed as a superhero punch some special effects."