Things I Played: Inside - A New Type Of Dystopia
I don't often feel the need to buy games at launch but I made an exception this week for INSIDE , a game I’ve been hugely excited about ever since it was announced back at E3 2014 . I'm sure that gives an indication of how long its been in development but I feel it's worth mentioning for anyone who's not aware. Its taken the developers Playdead a MASSIVE six years to finish it. Bloody hell guys. If you played (or saw somebody else playing) their previous game LIMBO then I rest easy making comparisons between them. They're both puzzle-platformers. They both rely on a minimalist style. And they both subject the player to violent gameplay provoking subtle elements of fear, shock and horror. In other words, Inside is a type of spiritual successor. Oh yeah, and they both have capitalised titles, for a reason I'm yet to figure out. Unlike LIMBO though , INSIDE is set in a grizzly dystopian world. It's a story-driven game that tells a simple tale a...