A story about my uncle meta3/20/2023 ![]() The basic suit you find in the beginning of the game provides you with superhuman strength (which later becomes a plot device) and the ability to jump extremely high and far. I would seriously recommend using headphones for this experience, as you really get the best out of the game’s sounds when they have a direction tied to them.Ī Story About My Uncle is a first person platforming game with a great emphasis on movement and air control. As far as environmental sounds and voices go. Even by themselves, a lot of these musical pieces would be great to listen and relax to. Perfectly composed and timed, each musical piece fits the moods, colours and places you are going through, giving it a proper theme and feeling. ![]() It really is impressive how the music boosts the experience in this game. This is not the case with A Story About My Uncle. ![]() The game is almost cementing the childlike curiosity it’s giving you, by giving it a voice through the little girl’s interactions with her father.Īs immersive and beautiful as the world is, we can’t fully experience the world if the sound is sub-par. Sometimes, the girl will have questions regarding the story the protagonist is telling, and many times, it’s directly related to what you, the player, is seeing as well, almost as if the girl is asking the question in your stead. The interactions between the father and daughter also add a lot of charm and innocence to the story. Towns have locals speaking in alien tongues, all with quirky designs, and other, more mysterious places really give you a sense of intrigue, and even horror, almost directly responding to the narrator’s words. The environments have a soft but brightly coloured look, and there’s a lot of variety in the places that you go through. The formula definitively works with A Story About My Uncle.Ĭonsidering how A Story About My Uncle is literally an adult’s retelling of a past event as a bedtime story to his daughter, the game really does unfold like a children’s book. This is something that I will always praise about indie games, where big budget titles go for flash and adrenaline, indies tend to go for more artistic and subtle ways on making their games great. ![]() The graphics are simple and cartoony, but not devoid of charm and colour. Like I mentioned before, the world portrayed in A Story About My Uncle is full of wonder and mystery. I will say this however it’s been a while since I’ve felt such childlike wonder when experiencing a game before, which in this case, suits the game like a glove, because this title is literally about a bedtime story for a kid. I would rather not go too much into detail with the story, because it really is the kind of tale that needs to be experienced firsthand, and not told through the cold spellings of a review. The glove was capable of shooting plasma grapples, so much like Spider-Man, it gave him the ability to grapple around the air, giving him extra mobility. Fast forward a bit later in the story and the boy also finds another of his uncle’s inventions: A grappling glove. Finding what seemed to be a special suit, or exoskeleton armour, akin to what he remembered his uncle to wear, but made for his measurements, he decided to put it on. Uncle Fred was an explorer and a scientist, always leaving for long periods of time for his investigations.Īfter having left for longer than normal, the young boy got worried, and began to eavesdrop on his uncle’s inventions. The child, now a man telling his tale to his daughter, decides to tell a story about how he went on an epic and wondrous adventure looking for his disappeared uncle Fred. Much like Gone Home, A Story About My Uncle presents you the story with the direct narration of the protagonist of the game, who in this case, is a father telling a bedtime story to his daughter in this case however, it’s in past tense, as an adult’s retelling of certain events he may or may not have experienced as a child. Is this bedtime adventure enough to make you dream of wonders, or just another forgettable snooze fest?
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