Comments on: Thoughts: Swords And Sworcery.

By: Nikola

Nikola — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 16:05:43 +0000

It is a decade later, and I am offended on behalf of Machinarium, and Botanicula that they could possibly be put into any similar category as Swords & Sworcery.

Myst though.

Yes.

Yes, that comparison will do nicely

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 21 Jan 2014 03:19:53 +0000

In a way, I’m not surprised at all this guy feels like defending SnS. His hobby, after all, is producing visual concoctions and behaving pretentiously. I’ll hazard he wouldn’t feel so much affinity with this hollow experience if he did not also enjoy wrapping his persona in layers of meaningless style. Source: his homepage.

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 16:53:13 +0000

In a way I’m not at all surprised that you hate Sword and Sworcery. This is, after all, the Scientific Gamer, and Sworcery is more of art/literature game. I’ll hazard that you also care little for the likes of Myst, Mechanarium, and Botanicula, which Sworcery has far more in common with than (say) Zelda.

By: null@null

null@null — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 05:14:18 +0000

The most baffling part, I think, is how it is getting such globally positive reception amongst all kinds of gamers. I really can’t fathom this out.

By: null@null

null@null — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 05:12:37 +0000

I liked LIMBO for what it was. I’m the kind of person who can enjoy a game as an ‘experience’, as a kind of a story that plays out with a little interaction to provoke it onwards. Yet even I found Swords & Sworcery completely hollow. It had no soul, but it liked to pretend it did. The hand-holding. The sudden empty stonewalling of the moon mechanic. The hollow attempt at advertisement through twitter. The complete lack of choice or even enjoyable feedback for menial steps in the story.

I bought the thing expecting some kind of awesome retro pixelcore adventure-story. If the game was lacking, I felt I could enjoy the story. If the story was lacking, I felt I could enjoy the game. There was no real game to speak of, and the story was akin to a stick figure drawing being submitted as an essay. I even completed the game, hoping all the way that it would suddenly start to get enjoyable. I paid for the damn thing so I was going to finish it, grasping desperately at the hope that some surprise twist would cause the story to be a giant mindfuck warranting a second playthrough to ‘get it’.

No dice.
Just a hollow experience, that really felt like a distraction tacked on to an mp3 album as a way to keep people listening until it got stuck in their heads. Given the full title of the ‘game’, that seems to have been their aim.
=/

By: jiiiiim

jiiiiim — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 17:43:55 +0000

Man I quite liked LIMBO. Yet another reason we can’t start that café in Devon.

By: C-Dave

C-Dave — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 17:24:31 +0000

I saw on Steam that you’d been playing this and having played it on the iPhone, thought to myself “He’s really going to hate this – I wonder how long before the rant?” I thought this mainly because the game is rubbish. (I think I played about 20-30 minutes on the iPhone before giving up.

By: hentzau

hentzau — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 12:11:33 +0000

My reaction to it was rather visceral and personal, but no matter what your particular gaming tastes are I can pretty much guarantee you can find dozens — if not hundreds — of games in the sub-£4 bracket on Steam that are more worthy of your time and your money.

By: aosher

aosher — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 10:43:36 +0000

By: iamspacegiraffe

iamspacegiraffe — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 10:41:31 +0000

Reference to ‘I Have No Mouth…’ = 1 more follower on your blog.

I’m so happy to have read this review because I was tempted to buy this on Steam and now, I won’t! Ha!