Posts Tagged ‘beautiful’
M. John Harrison said it beautifully in his strange and underappreciated first novel, The Committed Men: they had altogether left the maps he had known. This simple statement encapsulates the halting, terrible moment whereupon the speaker recognizes he is no longer in familiar territory. He has crossed the line, as it were, into the Weird Places. And there ain't no going back.
Every so often I encounter a game that, in expressing beautiful art direction, stunning animation, and gorgeous visuals, comes across more as a cinematic and visual experience than as a gaming one. The latest release from Damp Gnat, Icycle, does precisely this. The game's premise is delightfully simple: the world has entered an ice age, and you alone inhabit it. You have nothing else to do but ride your bicycle in search of a friend.
