Weird Dreams
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| Publisher: Rainbird | Sound: |
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| Year: 1989 | Difficulty: |
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| Number of players: 1 | Rating: |
3/10 | |
Another bizarre game for my collection.
You briefly find yourself in an operating room, lying on the table, before being plunged into a strange dream. You wake up in your pyjamas, shrunk to the size of an insect, inside a cotton candy machine, constantly at risk of being crushed by the rapidly spinning wooden stick…
This is just the first step in a series of absurd trials, sometimes turning sinister (a little girl awaits you with a butcher’s knife further on). The controls are unclear, and above all, unresponsive. I’ve nothing against surreal artistic madness, but such difficulty in controlling the thing is a dealbreaker for me, and with such slow execution, my impatience overtook my curiosity.
In any case, if you want to traumatise your kids, I don’t know of anything better.
This game was accompanied by a novella of about sixty pages written by Rupert Goodwins, somewhere between Alice in Wonderland and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. I spent more time reading it than playing. It wasn’t much more interesting.
In the same style (macabre), you can try Neverending Nightmares (PC, 2014) and Fran Bow (PC, 2015).
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