Submitted by MINI2uMARIO on Sat, 03/15/2008 - 11:22.
I haven’t played much computer adventure games in my lifetime but would conclude that Photopia was enjoyable to experience. I couldn’t figure out what was going on at first but as I got the hang of it I noticed that there was more than one narrative taking place. It would seem that these different stories did not relate to each other at all but impressively at the end the stories come together marvelously.
I didn’t understand the color changing until I looked up the definition of Photopia-“vision in bright light” (dictionary.com). It was then that I understood how the title was complementing the game or even vice versa. There’s probably more to it than that but that was enough for to understand the oddity of the color changing taking place between plots. I found it interesting that after certain vocabulary words definitions were interjected. Honestly, I felt slighted that I was being told what 2nd grade vocabulary terms stood for. read more »
