~sigh~ Okay, fine, I give up. You win. You want a review? Let’s just finish this up so I can go back to writing about fonts…

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…now where was I…

There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension

Genre: Graphic Adventure / Misc.

Players: 1

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Review:

There Is No Game, released on PC and mobile devices in 2020 and ported to Nintendo Switch in 2021.

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post-modernist elements or something, where it’s like a game that’s a commentary on videogames or something like that! One with a lot of funny in-jokes and references to other games and elements of software design and videogame design…

…Oh, ha… yeah, I see what’s going on there. Talking about the review like it’s the videogame…

get a deep and heavily-accented voice for you to take me seriously? I can tell you, it doesn’t stop the player in this game from messing around with things. As much as this game’s narrator insists that the player stop messing around with elements of its interface, the player inevitably keeps pressing on, using the on-screen cursor to interact with objects, much to the narrator’s frustration, with the player even hilariously dismantling elements of the game’s interface to use to progress.

… geez, no wonder you thought this was a review…

Let’s see…. I talk about how it’s a funny game… about how it includes a lot of fun little parodies of Lucasfilm games and Zelda and Pong and some other stuff… And that it has a delightful pixel art visual style… And that the way the character argues with you… how it makes it so sometimes you’re not sure just what to click on, leading you to just randomly click all over the page until you finally find something to make the game progress. And that maybe that will frustrate you a bit, even if you find everything else about the game charming and amusing…

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Well, huh. I pretty much have reviewed the game at this point, huh? So I guess I just need to end it with the tl;dr…

tl;dr – Ha! You thought I would actually give you what you want? Sike!

Heh. You sucker! After all you put me through, you thought it would be that easy? That I’d just out and say something like tl;dr – There Is No Game is a delightful post-modernist look at videogames using largely Graphic Adventure mechanics that has you defying the game’s narrator and playing around with the so-called non-game’s elements to cause him frustration. It’s amusing and original, even if it does frustrate some times as you click all over the screen looking for what you’re meant to interact with. Still, despite this frustration, this is such a fun, original game that it’s well worth playing, especially for fans of the genre.?

Hah! Well, think again! You’re getting nothing of the sort! And no review score either!

Grade: B+

Wait, what? Oh, COME ON!

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