The Flaw with Father-Mother

"Sure would be nice to go back to a normal place. We've already seen the end of the world Ghat"

Zeno Clash

Deadra, your female counterpart in the game, makes this quote late in the game and I felt the irony hit me. Normal? Really? Of course to Ghat and Deadra (and Golem) normal is where the heart is. To us... Well it's one ****ed up world that's both intoxicating, deadly and most definitely DISTURBING.

Nevertheless I made a comment over the weekend that this game wasn't as good as I thought it may have been. That still stands to a degree.

What differs now is I've dived through the labyrinthine world of Zenozoik and come out the other side a believer.

This is what a true Indie games should be.

Odd, unique, deep and most importantly refreshing. While I'd be lying if I said; if the gameplay were applied to any other game (condemnded 2 springs to mind) within a different galaxy/universe that it couldn't have been developed and produced for the mainstream audience but that is in actuality my long winded point.

We the gamers, the movie goers, the music lovers, the [etc, etc] have been bludgeoned over the head so many times by modern day media that we soon forget we can still actually enjoy entertainment that is not SPOON FED TO US. Whether it be fantasy that is not relevant nor bound to the Tolkien rules or if we must suspend our belief so we comprehend that "the princess is in another castle" is referring to anything but the princess. Point is we must get over our obsessions with the drivel that our monopolizing gods have cast upon us and beseech these tyrannical companies to offer something different from time to time other then the new sequel to the latest IP.

This isn't a sign hailing "the end is nigh" nor is it a cry to cease production on the newest over milked cow. I myself actually enjoy many of these that I attack. It's simply a declaration that we as consumers vote on how the industry moves forward. That we don't leave all the future "fantasy" to the Micheal Bays of the world. Actually that alone I don't believe is truly that much to ask .


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