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eclipsetail

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The company of Myself
« on: August 18, 2010, 11:42:44 am »



http://armorgames.com/play/4918/the-company-of-myself

I loved this game. It was short, but it was sad. Totally a game I'll replay when I have nothing else to do.
The last level was the hardest, but it was the most interesting.

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Re: The company of Myself
« Reply #1 on: August 18, 2010, 03:13:06 pm »

Ouch.  Yeah--I played that one too.  I appreciate emotional games that use that mechanic to involve players directly in the emotional weight.  It was pretty good, considering it's a short flash game.
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Re: The company of Myself
« Reply #2 on: August 18, 2010, 06:23:21 pm »

I like this, that's a great concept they have there.
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Re: The company of Myself
« Reply #3 on: August 18, 2010, 06:33:55 pm »

I too, have enjoyed this game.

I've always wanted to see a large studio develop a game which focuses on those sort of mechanics.
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Re: The company of Myself
« Reply #4 on: August 19, 2010, 01:19:54 am »

Fun stuff, kinda reminds me of that one flash game with the time-traveling robot (which, I might add, was a friggin' bastard of a game).  I must admit though, I beat the last level by essentially just spamming a vast amount of shadows and having them all hopping about on one another in a massive chaotic storm which only allowed me (and two random shadows who stood about looking useless afterwards) to get across through sheer chance.  I couldn't work out the timing any other way, and I couldn't think of how else you would do it.

The story aspect was also nice.  For me it fell somewhat short of spectacular, but it was still quite touching.


I also found the shadow-tower solution to one of the puzzles to be quite amusing.  Took ages before I managed to get one that wouldn't fall off my hat.

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Re: The company of Myself
« Reply #5 on: August 20, 2010, 02:56:02 pm »

What was that 3d game where you played some sort of donkey who could leap on his former selves?
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