![]() It's like they took the best bit of Half-Life, Xen, extended it into a full game, and made it even more fun fun fun. I'm feeling a shallow 5.6-5.8 for this game.ĩh 30m PlayedA first person platformer that is not in the least bit frustrating, is very forgiving and is a joy to play. It's disappointing how little I have to say about this from a critical perspective. It's certainly an enjoyable game but there's just.not enough of it. The story is an additional fatal flaw, as the curious and fantastic subterranean world of the game falls apart and fails to deliver on any worldbuilding that could make the levels more unique. There are a few small sequences that require you to get more creative and skillful with the grappling, but they're few and far between. It's incredibly disappointing as the gameplay never approaches a level of challenge or gives you the opportunity to string together creative forms of platforming. You see minor changes between each level which gives a feeling of progress and growth, but you get shunted as the game concludes only two hours in. The disappointing outcome is that the gameplay never gets the opportunity to evolve much. It ends up allotting you with this very enjoyable set of tools to traverse the level, and the gameplay is particularly solid for a first-person platformer. Levels take the form of a (relatively linear) set of floating platforms and checkpoints, and you can use the grappling hook to traverse across them. You're presented with an interesting, imaginative world hidden within massive, sprawling caverns, and some sort of sci-fi electric grappling hook to explore it. Some parts might even make you laugh, mostly the dialog of a character you meet around the middle of the game.Ģh 15m ProgressA Story About My Uncle is a game that sets up some particularly interesting gameplay and a premise for a simple albeit engaging story, and then fails to deliver on those marks due to its short playtime. The story might not be strong enough to make you cry, but it will give you a melancholy smile, and the voice acting will stay with you even long after finishing the game. Really a lot of love is put on this game story and the story execution. You can feel every character attitude, and feel the story through their voices, so much that a simple story about a lost uncle can get all the feels. Another paragraph goes to the voice acting, which, in my opinion, is perfect. Given the big jumps you have to do in-game, sometimes they are completely necessary. Some symbols on the map help you go, like tutorials, when the path is hard to see. ![]() That part of Alice was one of my favourites, just for the evocative, relaxing and melancholic feels it has, and Gone North Games nails that same feeling on this game. Because of this items having a very big reach, and the fact that you can make really big jumps like living on the moon being a professional basketballer, most of the game is comprised of small islands really far from each other, something like Alice Madness Returns “Castle cards in the sky” level, you can say. After a while you find some other items, like a jetpack, and use all of these to move through the world. The game is short, and sometimes can be very frustrating, since you will fall, and die, and fall and die a lot (For an example of this: All achievements on Steam are for not dying on a given level, and only 1,5% of people got one.) There is almost no enemies, and the few that are there you don’t fight, only evade. The main way of moving in the game is through an attractor ray in a glove (Like a grappling hook) that your uncle leaves behind for you to try. There, your character will knew some of the people in the world, made some friends and, in the end find your uncle that will teleport you back to earth, while he stays behind. You find a suit made specially for you and a teleporter to another world, where the main story will unfold. The story is told by your character to his daughter, about how he admired his uncle who always go on crazy trips around the world, and one day he disappears. You go to find it and made some friends in the way. 5h 53m PlayedA 3d platformer, with a sweet story about a kid going to find his uncle, who is lost in a mystical land.
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