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http://www.adventuregamers.com/games/view/27574

This was released last week. It looks rather interesting to me, especially as Désiré sounds a lot like myself as a boy, minus the color-blindness. It also looks to have a rather serious critique of society at its heart, which is welcome.

I don’t suppose anyone’s played it yet, so any thoughts?

When the schoolteacher asks Désiré why he didn’t draw the sun like the other pupils, he replies spontaneously: « It’s always night in my head. »

Désiré is colour-blind from birth and he will lead you into in world of black and white. He marches on hesitantly, as life never brought him much joy. From a tender age, he is going to meet several characters who will elicit in Désiré intense emotions and alter his vision in surprising ways. Is colour at the end of the road?

The game is, at its core, a critique of the modern world and of the perverting nature of a consumer, profit-obsessed society.

The game contains 4 chapters, 50+ scenes, 40+ characters and a lot of riddles.

Sexual hangups? I thought it was about a pre-teen kid? That doesn’t sound good at all. 

Although, I don’t know what else I expected from a French existentialist game…

Karlok - 15 May 2016 07:23 AM

EDIT: Don’t read the Steam reviews if you want to play the game. Too many spoilers.

Don’t read Steam reviews in any case.

Shouldn’t you two be finishing R.O.M.?

I just finished it, have mixed feelings about it. About pretty much every aspect of it. One moment I’m enjoying the beautiful artwork and quite a few detailed animations. Next moment I’m thinking, “Enough with the sprites facing in one direction and moving in another!” At times puzzles are quite reasonable, and then it’s like “why do I have to do these actions only in this order? Why did this option become available only now?” The game is very easy, so it’s never a serious roadblock, but it’s annoying.

And what they’re saying about “a critique of the modern world” is just laughable. Some moments do have a very genuine feel about them. But a large part of the dialogues is just a bunch of stereotypes and cliches. “Emancipated woman’s worst enemy is her family and kids!” “Absolutely!” I suppose people can start arguing about what is meant by that. They’re making a bold statement? No, see, it’s reductio ad absurdum, they’re really cleverly subverting the statement! But it’s all really just too shallow to be worth anything much.

I think I can sum it up like this: if you’re not writing the script for South Park, and you have Jesus saying the line “Just call me Jesus” (I’m not making it up), that’s not going to work out so well.

The characters are too caricatured for a cartoon game?