What Insomniacs dreams of

By Gauden - Posted on 02 December 2008

Game, game, game left the largest impression on me in that it reminded me of a director that I love very much, Wes Anderson. He's done such gems as The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and The Royal Tenenbaums. Game, game, game also reminded me of the movie The Science of Sleep directed by Michel Gondry. I compare the game to these movies because it feels very surreal. Although I would have to say that Game, game, game felt more like a psychotic nightmare than anything else. It was chaotic and some levels were so hard to navigate I had to let myself die over and over until I could figure it out.

And let's get into some of the things that the game spouted, such as whenever I would "die" it would tell me I was going to meet my maker. I found that, along with some other phrases to be the only real intelligable sentences:

The Book of Jelly 34:44
…and up was the official direction of heaven and lions were there eating cake with bunnies.

Oxygen is regional

The Book of Gregory 1:45
…and forth came the numbers all super powerful and teaching hidden hours to battery-less clocks

Special: 18 thousand room apartment with 2 bathrooms and blessing from five known gawds, their secret handshakes offering powers to hallways

Five steps section… Beyond this, there is no evidence the world is linear.

Alomst all of the little quote boxes that popped up were basically gibberish. And no matter how long I stared at it and tried to rearrange the words around, trying to possibly follow arrows and such or think "bigger" I still couldn't make a lot of things click.

I would love to clap my hands and say that the quote boxes reminded me of Douglas Adams (author of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)because at first I did. The bit about up being the direction of heaven reminded me of the style of writing that Douglas does but after a while I just found everything to be a mess of words. I almost feel that someone took a pile of meaningful and deep quotes, put them in a blender and let them spit forth and land whever they may. I honestly did try and find any sort of coherency in the quote boxes but it was more of a thought process that went, "I don't get it. No... this is deep in some way.... no, it's gibberish."

However I'm inflecting meaning on to something that I've described as psychotic. Looking at things, I'm more than sure that meaning is the farthest thing that the game is trying to tell me. Aside from thinking and that's exactly what I did.

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