Pretty cool game, although trying to survive as the egg is treated more like a bad thing than the challenge mode it truly is.
Reviews for "Fragile"
I don't dislike it or hate it, but I think that the "deep idea" tried to convey here is not that deep at all.
A my first play trough I started by trying to explore on the left and hatched when returning back (it involves falling) in the very starting nest.
I wouldn't have guessed that there was an idea to try to solve it as an egg at all. I just hatched right away as a bird. Seriously I saw no reason to stay as an egg. Now I could have tried that if there was a medal for this. But obviously artsy game makers consider making medals beneath them. You should have made secret medal that would fool me into thinking there is a point into completing the game as and egg. But there was none so it was clear from the very start that turning into the bird is the inevitable and best thing to do.
Also why is it that the bird species turns out to be chicken? Chickens don't fly. What a disappointment.
This is just a short game, with little gameplay and little idea behind it. (My guess is that the author is some liberal SJW who thinks his ideas are big an original altrough the wold has seen it thousand times before - just like world has seen communism always to fall despite young artsy liberals always thinking that this is a good and super original idea that the rest of the world does not understand. Ok sorry if I am wrong about personality of author, I obviously don't know that) So my low score doesn't means that I dislike it - it's just that there is not much to give a good score for. Well piano music is nice - but then again it's such a cliche for these "intellectual" and "artsy" and "meaningful" games, that I cannot evaluate that as anything special either.
Game starts; I watch my siblings die; I go to the right til I fall into a hole I can't get out of; read reviews to see if that's the end; refresh the page, and try again; refresh the page, and try again, but hatch before the hole; real end, others didn't die; credits; no feeling of accomplishment, and not really worth the time it took.
Of all the pretentious games with no gameplay begging to be seen as "deep" but really just trying to find an excuse to have little to no content, at least this one tries to have some form of a game in it.
when the game started,i went to my left to see of there was something, and i tried to t i had to broke the eggshell, at that point i thinked that was what the game wanted to me to do.But,in that moment i didnt realize that i was a chick, because the chick and the eggs was same color, i was thinking that my chick only had been broken a part of his eggshell, but enough so that the egg will walk in his two legs and fluttering. i assumed his eggshell will fallen if i only jump higher.
then i went with my siblings, and i thinked they was following me, and because of that they fell,indeed, i was trying broken them on purpose, so i just continued the game, and i noticed that i really wasn't in my eggshell, and theres was two kind of ground, but i really didnt now why.until , i arrived to the precipice for first time, thinking that I could easily jump the gap being a chick,i first tried to see what was down, and I found that it was only a hole which I could not climb.
I tried keys in case I restarted the stage but none did anything I read comments and theyseemed to sayed that there was another ending, so I re-started, and I realized that my brothers die no matter what I did, my egg was breaking naturally in all those rounds,and in each one, I ended just not being able to jump the gap. i started to think that was the message of the game no matter how hard you try you will only stay stagnant.
in the fourth attempt I assumed that if I could not get the end being a chick then I should be able to get it out being an egg, but even without try to broke the egg ,it broke, until , I could made the first jump, and then,i could be able to follow my siblings and I noticed that the strange terrain was so that the eggs would not break.
so when I reach the end I just tried to avoid that terrain, as resulte, i noticed that only from that specific point my chick could make the leap to reach the true end but ...
I had already seen my brothers die 5 times and I was sure to see them disappear. so the true end just was very confusing and painful. my brothers were dead and I knew it, so the end was to see my mother go with four unknwon chickens, even after the dead of my siblings