Candleman gameplay review – light in the darkness
One of the most original indie games of the year also features one of the strangest, but surprisingly endearing, heroes.
We’re beginning to think there’s a serious problem with how indie games are released on consoles. Even at this quiet time of year most of the new games have zero advertising, and both the Xbox and PlayStation stores are terrible at promoting anything but the most mainstream games (we’re guessing because that promotional space has to be paid for by the publisher). As a result, several games a week are passing by completely under the radar. We’re just glad that, for us at least, Candleman wasn’t one of them.
There are a number of unique and interesting things about Candleman, but one of the less obvious ones is that it’s by a Chinese indie developer. Despite the country’s enormous size China has had almost no impact on the Western gaming scene, but now that consoles are officially available there we expect that to change over the course of the next few years. Which is an exciting prospect when you consider the influx of new ideas that will hopefully bring with it.
There is nothing about Candleman that is identifiably Chinese though, in terms of its story or concept – or at least we don’t know of any precedent about sentient candles with a lighthouse fixation. But wherever the idea came from it’s used in some very strange and interesting ways.
We’re beginning to think there’s a serious problem with how indie games are released on consoles. Even at this quiet time of year most of the new games have zero advertising, and both the Xbox and PlayStation stores are terrible at promoting anything but the most mainstream games (we’re guessing because that promotional space has to be paid for by the publisher). As a result, several games a week are passing by completely under the radar. We’re just glad that, for us at least, Candleman wasn’t one of them.
There are a number of unique and interesting things about Candleman, but one of the less obvious ones is that it’s by a Chinese indie developer. Despite the country’s enormous size China has had almost no impact on the Western gaming scene, but now that consoles are officially available there we expect that to change over the course of the next few years. Which is an exciting prospect when you consider the influx of new ideas that will hopefully bring with it.
There is nothing about Candleman that is identifiably Chinese though, in terms of its story or concept – or at least we don’t know of any precedent about sentient candles with a lighthouse fixation. But wherever the idea came from it’s used in some very strange and interesting ways.
Source: http://metro.co.uk/2017/02/09/candleman-review-light-in-the-darkness-6436690/
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