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It doesnвЂ™t spoil too much really, but warning written anyway. This bit (AJ warned the readers, out of a common courtesy) probably should have a spoiler warning header. Then AJ expanded that review into a secondary essay about the gameвЂ™s thesis. AJ sat on her bed wearing flannels, and wrote a review of The Stanley Parable. I played the game for about four hours so now everything I do in the real world is narrated by a sarcastic Brit. ItвЂ™s sadly a malady that has befallen many of us. The Stanley Parable is a game that invites reviewers to ape its narrative style in the process of critiquing it. Both are available on Steam: the demo for free, and the main game for $12 for a limited time (or $15 later).Дeveloper:В Galactic Cafe | Released: OctВ 2013ДЄvailable on:В PC (Steam) | Time Played:В 4 hoursД«ut the end is never the end, so here we go.

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If you wanted a regular review I guess I could stop there, since youвЂ™d be better off playing it without any further spoilers! ItвЂ™s absolutely worth it to download the demo first, because itвЂ™s actually a standalone short game made in the spirit of the full game. It will definitely confuse you, and if I say any specifics about when and why, IвЂ™ll probably ruin the experience. At bigger games: maybe.) The result here is that you might not leave it feeling good about yourself, but it starts an interesting conversation. (Not at indie games itвЂ™s littered with Indie Scene Easter Eggs. The Stanley Parable seems angry, at times, but IвЂ™m not sure at what. I wasnвЂ™t really laughing while I was playing The Stanley Parable, but I kept playing it anyway just to see what would happen next. The game is funny: not in a ha-ha way, but in a вЂњhuh thatвЂ™s strangeвЂ¦ wait, what?вЂќ way. The Stanley Parable is probably upset I compared it to literature and art. The reason for my uncertainty is The Stanley Parable sometimes seems a little mean-spirited. But IвЂ™ve played both versions and I still liked this one. I think the HD version will probably land a bit better on people who didnвЂ™t see the original version, since everything here will be new. There are a few new endings, and a big developerвЂ™s room. Some choices lead to the same outcomes, but in more detail. Many sections are the same, just prettied up.

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If youвЂ™ve played the original Half-Life 2 mod on which the full-release Stanley Parable is based, youвЂ™re going to find the full release pretty familiar territory. There are minor puzzles, in the sense of waiting for a clue to know what button to hit or finding secret exits from rooms youвЂ™ve visited previous times, but they are more about discovery than logic. You can ignore the narrator, or go along with him, and thatвЂ™s the primary mechanic of the game. The Stanley ParableВ has a narrator who tells you everything that youвЂ™re doing, and sometimes suggests at things you should be doing.

IвЂ™m not sure what that says about them or if that is in and of itself some kind of statement about contradiction: the impatience to be recognized for not doing a thing, but immediately. Incidentally, some players are just fast-forwarding their computer clocks so they can get that five-year achievement right now. The Stanley Parable is a work that contains a lot of deliberate contradiction. Then again, it will also give you an Achievement for playing it for an entire day, as long as that day is a Tuesday, so thatвЂ™s a bit of a contradiction. In fact, if you manage to not play it for five years, itвЂ™ll give you an Achievement. ItвЂ™s a game that, like many modern games, often really doesnвЂ™t want to be played. (IвЂ™d almost go so far as to call it Dada, but you canвЂ™t just go around calling any old thing Dada, so I wonвЂ™t actually do that.) ThereвЂ™s a bit of Camus to it. The Stanley Parable is a work of absurdist surrealism. The Stanley Parable is a game about pulling my leg.

But the game is pretty sarcastic, unless itвЂ™s very sincerely telling you something about how it feels about branching choices in games, so maybe I misinterpreted that conversation, or maybe Wreden was just pulling my leg.

Well, except I talked to Davey Wreden for a bit at Indiecade last year, and he said itвЂ™s not really about that. The Stanley Parable is a game about branching narrative structures in games.