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Friday 10 February, 2017
Game Log 2
Playtime: 2.5 hours
This game took a very dark turn that I honestly wasn’t expecting. There was an ominous foreshadowing of death with three criminal’s bodies hanged (I’m assuming that they were criminals because their heads were hooded) and a dream-ish sequence about their mom and dad with the younger brother being strangled by the older brother. I think the younger brother feels guilty about the death of his mother and secretly thinks that his older brother blames him for her death.
As we left the forest there was a man who was attempting to commit suicide, he was standing on a chair and tying a rope around his neck. I wasn’t able to save him but when I was attempting to make a jump later, I died and had to redo it. The second time he lived. It was revealed that he was committing suicide because his wife and child died in a house fire while he was gone. He ran into the fire to save them but only retrieved their bodies. To console him I found a music box in the wreckage.
The game took an extremely weird turn. There were cultists who were sacrificing a girl, then a yeti who froze an entire village and their invading forces, then that girl turned out to be a spider-woman who tried to Shelob the two brothers. The Yeti the brothers killed by accident and the Shelob-woman on purpose, who stabbed the older brother as she was dying. Also I accidentally crushed the frozen forces and stabbed/maimed some dead giants who were battling.
I reached the glowing tree on the older brother’s map. AND THEN HE DIED. THE TRIP WAS NOT WORTH IT. Although, I think that was kind of the point. They went on this grand and magical adventure to save their dad from death and one of them died in the process. I think it brings up the questions - is each life equivalent? Would you exchange someone’s life for someone else?
I will admit that it was a nice touch at the end that you couldn’t use the left side of the controller anymore until it came time to do things that the brother had to do for the little brother, like swim. The brother couldn’t swim/was too afraid to so he had to rely on his brother’s memory to do it (and you had to use the left side to swim and not the right).
Also I finished the game.
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