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ten fine oak pipes out of ten by Rafiki 07/08/2016, 8:17pm PDT
Washington Post wrote:

There is a term in Danish, gennembrud, that means breakthrough. In 1883, the critic Georg Brandes used the phrase Det moderne gennembrud, or the modern breakthrough, to describe the ways in which Scandinavian literary artists were rebelling against the conventions of their time and forging new paths for artists outside of the region. Since then, the idea has been applied to the paintings of Edvard Munch and the films of Ingmar Bergman. An “art of siege, of takeover” is how Arnold Weinstein describes such works in his book “Northern Arts.” Though they labor in another time and another medium, the developers at the Copenhagen-based video game studio Playdead deserve to have their work studied in such a light. They, too, are pushing the boundaries of their chosen art form by making creepy, visually expressive games that tap into the dark areas of the collective unconsciousness.


The review doesn't talk much about the part of the game you interact with, so I guess there wasn't much gennembruding on that front. But since games appear to only rise to art when their defining feature is minimal to non-existent, I guess that doesn't matter. The less the controlly bits get in the way of the visuals, audio, atmosphere, narrative, etc. the better, I guess.

Three times today I was going to post about this game. From what I can gather from reviews and user reviews, it's about a 3-4 hour puzzle platformer that's middling at best. I'm not willing to pay $20 for it, I'll let you know when the price drops.
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Review request: Inside by fabio 07/08/2016, 1:15pm PDT NEW
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        How about Oxenfree then? by fabio 07/08/2016, 8:21pm PDT NEW
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