Experiential

FATALE is the newest work by Tale of Tales, developers of The Path, The Graveyard, and The Endless Forest.

Here's the short review, to help you decide if this is worth buying. First, listen to Booty Queen by Lizz King. If you like that song, adventure games, or getting caught in the rain, then buy this thing. If you expect some kind of tight time-cycle between action and response, if you expect strategic depth or even a modicum of decision-making depth, if you expect any level of rapidity, you should pass. Most of the reviews have made the dual mistakes of either praising this game uncritically or dismissing it out of hand because it does not suit the reviewer's personal tastes. "The Path is the art of the goddess, and if you don't like it you're a philistine!" meanders over to the other extreme, reacting "not a game, wtf!" I have a secret weapon that no other reviewer has applied, co-op mode. I played this with a 19-year-old Argentian that I also wolf on periodically, she's a non-gamer but did work at an Xbox call center.

In a time where the CEO of Electronic Arts describes collapsing revenues as a brightside opportunity to cut the fat, farmers can't get enough GMO seeds and petro-fertilizer for lack of credit, and the whole show looks like it's going to come down, we need to ask ourselves what kind of a high we want to develop, what kind of an industry we want to create. It's clear to me that there could be a very bright future in web-based games, either as stand-alone experiences or windows into a wider world, such as a MySQL database of profiles, a leaderboard, a rich MMO, or what the hell - Storytron. That's assuming that the internet doesn't crash under a lack of infrastructure or get knocked out by a solar radiation storm in 2012. Either way, Flashbang has been putting out fresh, distinct games using Unity for a while, and they're really starting to broaden out. In their latest, they show that you can have your casual cake and eat it too, suggesting that the future of profitable gameplay may well take majority out there in the wilds of the net.