Wake Up and Play ‘Coma’
by Ben Deitz on February 9, 2011 at 05:30 PM
Dreams are often only interesting to the parties concerned. No one wants to hear about the “crazy dream” in which you forgot to wear pants to school. But dreams can also provide fertile ground for imaginative gaming experiences that we can all share. This week, we’ll delve into dream-inspired games that would have made Freud proud — and we’ll do it all without any ‘Inception’ jokes.‘Coma’ shares many similarities with last year’s ‘Limbo,’ while also carving out a unique identity amongst artistic side-scrollers. The game focuses more on creating a lush world to explore than presenting challenging gameplay, but its imagery is so evocative that you’ll hardly care. Ambient details, such as birds taking flight and floating specks of dust and pollen, add life to the mysterious dream world you explore. Unlike ‘Limbo,’ ‘Coma’ migrates between worlds of intense natural beauty and uncomfortably dark confines. The two do share one commonality, however: a story and ending that are left utterly open to interpretation, just like our wildest dreams.
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