10 Jan
Hopefully this image isn’t too much of a spoiler.
This is a hard game to write about. Just about anything I could write would constitute a spoiler that would detract from the experience of playing it for yourself for the first time. So I’ll just limit myself to a few short comments:
- There is more content in here than initial impressions may convey. Go everywhere and try everything, multiple times. Still you’ll probably be completely done with it in two hours or so. It’s not a long game.
- It’s more amusing than funny and more clever than intelligent.
- I like that it’s not an examination of videogame story tropes but of videogame playing tropes.
It’s so short and so cheap that it’s certainly worth your while to experience it at least once. But I don’t think it’s a must-have or even all that brilliant. Still, a very impressive effort from what was originally a mod made by just one person.
Written on January 10 2014 and is filed under PC Games.
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2 Responses to “The Stanley Parable”
Yep! I agree with that! I wonder…I suspect I’m still missing some content. I wanna make sure I get it all!
“Amusing and clever” is definitely how I’d term it. Though, Confusion had me laughing out loud.
You could always cheat and look at online guides…
One ending requires sitting down and doing a single thing over and over again for at least 4 hours straight. I went to YouTube to watch that ending.
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