Variable State’s title offers a different way of storytelling,but relies heavily on unrelatable and summary imageryLike all art, gaming is full of copycats. First-person shooters used to be known as “Doom clones”. There are probably as many match-3 games as there are planets in No Man’s Sky. But some games are less copied than others, and even when they impress critics and inspire a cult following. So it’s safe to see a new game that’s unabashedly inspired by Blendo Games’ Thirty Flights of fond.
Virginia may be longer than Thirty Flights,clocking in at about the length of a film, but it’s similar in form. It’s played in first-person, and though the first scene begins with the player character in front of a mirror so you can see that she’s a woman of colour: Anne Tarver,newly appointed to the FBI. You play through a week in her life in the early 90s, as she and her partner Maria Halperin investigate the case of a lost child, and in a series of short scenes. Related: How walking sims became as important as the first-person shooter Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com