Renegade_Turner wrote:Some Russian yobs making a game which they apparently wanted to be about doing nothing interesting while trying to be surreal.
Ren, stop trolling games you've never played.
While I wouldn't recommend The Void to people, it's not because it's a bad game. It's because it's so incredibly fucking difficult that it'll make you want to rip your hair out...TWICE!
As one reviewer said, "death isn't a possibility...it's an inevitability."
Anyways, the basic gist of the game is that you're dead, but you're not in the afterlife yet. Instead, you're in the void. Right when you start, you're forced to pick up the heart of a lost soul. If you don't, nothing happens. Your soul would die and you'd disappear forever without it anyways, so there's no moving on without it.
But yeah, after you get the heart, you're taught the basics on how to interact with the world, and then you meet the first sister that guides you.
In The Void...color is everything. Color is slowly dissipating and everything but the brothers and their creatures are dying. The sisters are fighting the brothers. However, you're not a hero. In fact, your only goal in The Void is to survive...and it's really fucking hard.
There are several colors in the game, and each one has a different specialty (which can often be found out by what they say when you pick them up), but they can all be used for anything. Color is scarce and, as the game says "Color does not like to be wasted." Color is everything. It's your ammo, it's your shields, and it's your health. Just being in The Void is slowly killing you, so you have to get color and refill your heart occasionally to make sure you stay alive.
Everything else in the game is done through either the right mouse button or certain gestures, similar to making troops in Darwinia. For example, to give color to a tree so that it will grow more color, you have to draw a fish like thing while pointing at it. To attack, you have to draw a slash on the thing you're attacking.
Put bluntly, it's new, it's innovative, and it's hard as hell. It's not everyone's cup of tea, but I'm enjoying it.