The fuck?!
These days games aren’t happy just being enjoyable experiences, they also want to be ‘art’ as well. I’m not opposed to this, I love certain artistic games like Heavy Rain. But sometimes it appears as if a title is attempting to make itself out to be a new artistic kind of game, when it would be more appropriate as a shitty artistic video, this is the case with ‘The Graveyard’
In ‘The Graveyard’ you control an old lady, walking her down a Graveyard, until you get to a bench, where she sits, and dies, that is the game. It attempts to be thought provoking, and sad by showing a young man for instance packing up what’s presumably the old lady’s room, but it misses the mark. Honestly the concept isn’t totally terrible, and the graveyard visuals are definitely unique and had it been simply a free short video trying to make a fast sad statement it would of been more respectable, but no this is a game that gains absolutely no significance or worth through being a game.
“a pretentious, ineffective waste of the interactive medium” -Destructoid
Well sure if you want to dumb down my past 2 paragraph into a coherent properly articulated sentence fine.
Watch the video above to see the the old lady die (video shows the whole game, which wont take too much of your time) or download the trial version (in which the old lady can’t die) but if you’re completely set on seeing the old lady die in the palms of your hands (totally understandable) you can buy the full version here.
