- I finished Gris today; it's a gorgeous little watercolour-style game about a grieving young woman learning to stand on her feet again. 'Literally and figuratively bringing colour back to the world' is something I've had a weakness for ever since Okami. I'd recommend it if you're interested in light platforming and painting-esque animation. (I'll admit I found it sort of hilarious that your options at the beginning were 'walk very slowly' or 'FALL TO YOUR KNEES IN AGONY', and there were two different 'fall to your knees in agony' buttons.)
This sounds interesting. I'd never really thought of the effect colour palette has on a game before The Cat Lady, which sounds like it takes a bit of a similar approach to this (but it's probably more horrifying). The majority of the game is black and white (and red when things get bloody), so it's striking when it doesn't do that. I remember there being colour in the flashback to Susan's back story, plus I think in the segment with the guy from Downfall, and for the period at the beginning of the game where the protagonist is dead (long story) there are some gorgeous, colourful backgrounds. The protagonist is depressed, so her life being those endless greys as opposed to her death made a lot of sense.
You can kind of see it here in the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx6j2I8v2Z0
My memories of Spyro are that charging was fun, I was bad at combat as I wanted to do nothing except charge at things, and Moneybags deserves to be catapulted into space. NO I DON'T HAVE ENOUGH GEMS, GO AWAY.
I've been playing FF15! I, er, may have got to level 43 in chapter 3. But it's now chapter 7 and it's level 50, so I've eased off a bit. Mainly because I had burned through every available sidequest, but more just opened up so ALL OF THE SIDEQUESTS AGAIN. (Er, except the inexplicable level 99 sidequest. Why are you at the region where I want to fish, sidequest?!).
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This sounds interesting. I'd never really thought of the effect colour palette has on a game before The Cat Lady, which sounds like it takes a bit of a similar approach to this (but it's probably more horrifying). The majority of the game is black and white (and red when things get bloody), so it's striking when it doesn't do that. I remember there being colour in the flashback to Susan's back story, plus I think in the segment with the guy from Downfall, and for the period at the beginning of the game where the protagonist is dead (long story) there are some gorgeous, colourful backgrounds. The protagonist is depressed, so her life being those endless greys as opposed to her death made a lot of sense.
You can kind of see it here in the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx6j2I8v2Z0
My memories of Spyro are that charging was fun, I was bad at combat as I wanted to do nothing except charge at things, and Moneybags deserves to be catapulted into space. NO I DON'T HAVE ENOUGH GEMS, GO AWAY.
I've been playing FF15! I, er, may have got to level 43 in chapter 3. But it's now chapter 7 and it's level 50, so I've eased off a bit. Mainly because I had burned through every available sidequest, but more just opened up so ALL OF THE SIDEQUESTS AGAIN. (Er, except the inexplicable level 99 sidequest. Why are you at the region where I want to fish, sidequest?!).
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