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shallowdepths's review
2.0
I appreciate this sort of thing, but I think this suffers for having been written so quickly. A bit more time and editing could have created something that hangs together better.
I don't feel like Escape to Na Pali is evocative enough to stand alone and it would be better read in conjunction with playing the game. Comparisons to other games are skipped over quickly so I wouldn't recommend this to anyone without a lot of general background game knowledge.
For such personal reflections by the authors the writing style is a bit distant. The game progression is often described in a bare and matter-of-fact way and the emotions rarely come through like I would have hoped. The language skips constantly between we/you/the player in a careless way, as though these are all equivalent. Sometimes it's presumptuous (is that really how I feel and behave or are you projecting onto me?). It's the same issue I have with a lot of game reviews and marketing.
Despite these issues there were some good insights and it does have me excited to have another go at playing Unreal.
I don't feel like Escape to Na Pali is evocative enough to stand alone and it would be better read in conjunction with playing the game. Comparisons to other games are skipped over quickly so I wouldn't recommend this to anyone without a lot of general background game knowledge.
For such personal reflections by the authors the writing style is a bit distant. The game progression is often described in a bare and matter-of-fact way and the emotions rarely come through like I would have hoped. The language skips constantly between we/you/the player in a careless way, as though these are all equivalent. Sometimes it's presumptuous (is that really how I feel and behave or are you projecting onto me?). It's the same issue I have with a lot of game reviews and marketing.
Despite these issues there were some good insights and it does have me excited to have another go at playing Unreal.
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