Tempest in Crescent CitySidescrolling Through Katrina | Submitted by costik on Wed, 10/15/2008 - 00:05. |
Tempest in Crescent City is the second game developed by Global Kids, a not-for-profit that provides afterschool programs to involve inner city youth in new media. Not many inner city youth are crackerjack coders, so they team up with game developers; their first game, Ayiti, was developed by GameLab, and Tempest with Game Pill (warning: annoying Flash-based site that resizes your browser whether you want to or not).
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.
