It is good amusement ...and good image?

meadowlarkb's picture
8
out of 10
It is good amusement ...and good image?

It might not be fashionable. I think it should be. The atmosphere of this game is great. I love the psychotic 70's/80's version of weird sci-fi interpretation. It brings me back to the pre CGI sci-fi of Buckaroo Bonzai, Flash Gordon, first-trilogy-Star Wars, and other fantastically and imperfectly designed sets and costumes of the era. Even the flashing plasma/ interdimensional field/ whatever-it-is is reminiscent of the hand cut and fit blue screen window that all the video phones in the movies were. Post "perfect-CGI" is good style in my book. It does take a page from Douglas Adams, where taking advantage of the weirdness of modern science means adding common household items in the pulsing field of quantum plasma. I suppose this seemingly unlikely occurance is attributed to improbability.

As for the game I've gotten to Level 9 or something and I've also played the 2 player team version and I've generally had a good time seeing what was going to happen next. Only problem, I haven't figured out how to go back to the level using the password.