Generally I’ve been pretty happy with the games I get from the Humble Indie Bundles, but And Yet It Moves makes so unhappy, I don’t even know where to start.
How about with the name? It is at least representative of something you can do in the game, moving around. Actually, you can spin the world around clockwise or counter-clockwise to move yourself around the world and solve puzzles. This is guaranteed to be neat for at least the first 10 minutes, but to base a whole game on it is a bit risky if the developers can’t come up with any unique ideas that take advantage of it in order to keep the game interesting.
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by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. The only reason I knew about the existence of the book was from playing the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. (from now on, just STALKER) series of video games by GSC Game World, which are actually in many ways based off of ideas from the novel. Both the game and the novel revolve around the idea of a zone containing anomalous activity, filled with strange artefacts, although they do have some fairly big differences.
for a while now, but it wouldn’t really be fair to the game, considering I played it years ago and my second play-through would leave a far different impression than my first. I’ve actually recently tried to play it again despite this, but there are things that turn me off enough that I go play some game that I haven’t finished yet. I tend not to like to repeat doing things. After reading the book, I realised I had a chance to write about the game without actually reviewing it. So, here we go!