This Is Infinity

This Is Your Brain On Cactus

Submitted by the99th on Thu, 04/29/2010 - 19:43.

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Cactus

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This is going to be the shortest review I've ever done.

Cactus is beyond a genius. You can't fully appreciate it unless you either play this on 'shrooms during a blizzard or decompile it and realize that it's just 2D sprites with shaders and layering tricks that are systematically deranging your senses. There is a way to win but there are many more ways to lose yourself against the pall of infinity, and I recommend you do so. It's easier than going to Peru and drinking Ayahuasca with the shamans, and much more Scandanavian.

What the hell do you do?

Submitted by JohnEvans on Fri, 04/30/2010 - 00:00.

What the hell do you do? There are no instructions.

Walkthrough

Submitted by the99th on Fri, 04/30/2010 - 01:20.

Here are the droids you've been looking for.

Awesome

Submitted by chouzar on Fri, 04/30/2010 - 01:37.

Interesting game, from beginning to end ;D

Great review! And the

Submitted by Junko on Fri, 04/30/2010 - 04:41.

Great review! And the shorter the better, honestly. You've captured everything you needed to about the game, and in a clear, concise manner. Keep it up.

Playing this hurts.

Submitted by kevin47 on Fri, 05/14/2010 - 20:25.

I played this game for as long as I could stand it, and it gave me a splitting headache. I would not be willing to suffer through this brain-crushing video and audio for any amount of good gameplay. As a matter of fact, I didn't enjoy the gameplay much, either.

Alphaland

Alphaland

You come away from Alphaland thinking "This is art, without the drama." That is, it an interesting aesthetic experience, from narrative, visual, and ludological perspectives all; its subtext is not entirely clear, but a degree of tasty obscurity is itself an effective artistic technique. And "without the drama," because unlike, oh, Rohrer, or the Tale of Tales folks, there's nothing here that says "I are an artist, look at me!" Indeed, the effect is as subdued as the minimalist graphics.

Alphaville is a platformer, with blocky, flat colored shapes providing the environment, and a little blue square for the character, if you can call it such. Some, but not a great deal, of platforming skill is required to play through it, but familiarity with platformers is required to understand the aesthetic of the game; as with many forms of art, a degree of cultural literacy is required to understand the work, in this case, with the nature of the platformer.

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