Saturday, December 14, 2013

Debute Game Review on Flixified: Review of Thomas was alone.



     Hello everybody and welcome to a new segment of Flixified, gaming edition.
Gaming edition will be just me giving my impressions on the games I've been playing and how much I recommend it or not, one game at a time.



      Today I will be talking about a game I played a little while ago, Thomas was alone. Thomas was alone is a very interesting title and might sound a bit weird at first, but stick with it. In the game you play as, wait for it, a bunch of 2D rectangles. It is a puzzle platformer, (ok are all the closed minded people gone yet, I think they are,) anyway to get the basic mechanics out of the way. You switch between a bunch of rectangles and jump around, and most rectangles play differently. For example John is a tall skinny rectangle that can jump really high, in contrast to Chris who is a small fat square who cannot jump all that high at all. The game creates puzzles that make it so that you have to use every one of the people in your little group and no one feels like dead weight.
But that is not where this game shines, the game shines in it's absolutely stunning story, and the way it portrays it. The story is about a group of 10 or 12 different shapes, (all with four corners,) going on an adventure together. The story is told through a voice actor telling you the story with some text showing at the same time,(showing what the narrator says) over the course of 100 levels. The game plays the audio when you get to certain places in the level, (taking a trick from Bastion, my favorite game of all time. )
      Now to tell you if you should buy it or not, this is my third favorite game ever but you may not want it if you don't like puzzles or platforming, a solid 4 stars out of 5, almost perfect.

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