Immersive Poetry

AMK OYUNU CRASH ATMAKTAN OYNANMIYOR / GAME CRASHES DONT BUY IT

I can't believe I found a game so awful that even though I only paid 50 cents for it I still feel I was ripped off. When I first started the game, the scenery looked beautiful. As long as I didn't move, it stayed that way, but as soon as I began walking and looking around the camera got jerky and blurry. There was a list of 4 things in the top left of the screen, but no instructions on what I was supposed to do with that list. After a few minutes of wandering around I guessed, correctly, that I must need to take a picture of each thing on the list. As soon as I take the 4th picture, the "mission" ends and I get a message saying I only completed 75% of the mission. What???? Mission #2 starts with me standing inside of what looks like a huge pit surrounded by rock walls. My only instruction is "explore the passages", and if I don't finish before the timer runs out I'll go insane. The deeper in I go, the darker it seems to get. Combine the darkness with the blurry vision, and I can't really see what I'm doing. Poetry lines keep coming on the screen, 2 to 4 lines at a time, fading in from the left and fading off to the right ALL AT THE SAME TIME at a very quick rate of speed…

I love poetry, and I love walking simulators, but this doesn't quite work. The poems appear on the screen, but you're often busy looking for things or trying to complete a timed level, so you aren't able to read and enjoy the poems. And they're abridged, so you only get short sections of the poems anyway. I don't care for that. The music is very beautiful, and some of the levels are nice and relaxing, but even then, it's not the best environment for reading and absorbing poetry. It's not a bad game (thought there are bugs, especially in the limbo level), but it also doesn't deliver the expected experience. That said, I did like the twist at the end of the game. I didn't expect that.

Honestly.... I love it

The concept of [i]Immersive Poetry[/i] is solid, however I found that it fails to deliver on the ideas behind its construction. I love poetry, philosophy, puzzle games, and a well-told story. I went into this hoping for the existential storyline offered by franchises like [i]The Room[/i] and [i]House of DaVinci[/i], but found a walking simulator punctuated by excerpts of poetry (rarely full poems) that don't even seem to be closely tied to the story of the Wilkins Family that you are uncovering. On a more mechanical level, the graphics of the game can be rather clunky and specific levels suffer from bugs. The soundtrack is good, the maps are beautiful, but the game itself does not deliver on all that is promised. It needs refinement and further development, but it has potential.

Gave me headache