Love This
This is a great game. Really simple but beautiful. Love the graphics, and it's very relaxing to play. I thought the ending was pretty predictable, but I was still sad to see the little guy fade away. Nice work!
Reviews for "Grey Story"
I wanted to dislike this, and in the end couldn't.
Grey Story is, really, on its surface, another pixellated artsy game that wants to make the player think the author is some really smart guy who had a huge, deep, mind-bending thought.
It succeeds at none of these things.
What it does succeed at is a connection with a small audience which I can only assume was the target caucus: Any guy who has given a lot up for a woman or girl, only to have it all wasted, because she just couldn't see what was right there.
Kevin, you hit the mark on that one. I've never played a game where it emotionally hurt even to move the character. I knew what was coming, and in real life, you always do, somewhere in your head. You know it's going to happen, but you keep plodding along, hoping that maybe, just maybe, it'll turn out differently.
It didn't. The guy faded away, and the girl released the dove just in time to realize that the guy, who'd given her everything she'd asked for, was now gone, spent, utterly destroyed.
The gameplay was weak; jumping was a problem at times, but not overly so, and sometimes there was a lag in command entry to execution. It happens.
Even through this small oversight, the story, which barely exists except through the players' interpretation, was grand, regardless of how you saw it; although I saw it as described above, reading through the other reviews will give you other thoughts on the matter that I find very insightful; I never thought of the guy as a spirit and the woman as depressive over his death.
In Grey Story, you play as a male character, assumedly human, who sees a woman and attempts to get her attention. Failing to achieve such, you start to bring her back items, like a teddy bear, a balloon, a necklace, a bow, a clover, and so on. With the return of each item, the man appears more transparent, or more gray. More gray trails appear, lending the title of Grey Story, as your character, at the end, slowly leaks gray out of himself and eventually disappears.
This was a fine entry.
As a fellow musician, let me just give a shoutout to silent6nothing9. Your piano piece was absolutely stunning, and lent a whole new facet to the game. Yes, the player knew from the music bad things were afoot, but the composition was extremely skilled.
Best of luck to both of you.
- Seefu
This game doesn't deserve all this hate.
This was an absolutely beautiful game.
I don't believe this was in any way supposed to satisfy a player's needs through gameplay. It has a great concept, and the story that I recognized in this is great as well.
@ tiddo
Its more a story than a game Tiddo. The person moves the "boy" around to colect items of value to the girl to show her that all is not lost, and her world should not be gray, even though he is gone. It has a sense of depth to it that it cant be told as a story, it has to be played out by the viewer, to let the viewer understand whats going on little by little. "gameplay" is in the eyes of the one precieve it. Sure to compare this to other "games" there is little game play at all, but then again, do the other games have the depth that this one does?
To the author, I for one loved it, enough so that I played it on that sight that starts with a K (lol I'm not breaking rules am I?) and came here to play it again. It has amazing emotion put into it, and the sense of story that is told by the environment is beautiful. You did a good job in the portrayal.
Pretty Colors
I liked to watch all the colors appear.
& the music was very fitting ^.^