Holy moly what a great time I had yesterday playing To the Moon.
Released almost exactly one year ago, To the Moon is the latest game by Canadian development team
Freebird Games. The game explores themes not often seen in video games. These
themes are highly personal and human, such as memory, relationships and mental disorders, among others. For those who still don't think that video games
can't convey meaningful content in the same way that can traditional mediums,
like books or movies, play To the Moon. It might change the way you perceive the medium.
The player delves further and further into the life of the
patient through a special machine. Exploring memories this way works well in a
video game, much like the animus system of the Assassin's Creed games. The main difference between these two games
is that To the Moon's narrative is
incredible, and not just "for a video game", and it only took three
and a half hours to deliver, not thirty.
While playing To the
Moon, I realized that there really is a difference between a game and the
experience it delivers. There is nothing particularly challenging or
technologically impressive about To the Moon;
that being said, it is now one of my favorite games. The gameplay? Mostly
walking around with either the mouse or arrow keys, interacting with NPCs, or
solving one of the many puzzles to progress the story. By no means an ugly or
broken game, nothing really stands out with the gameplay or the technology
itself. The experience? An amazingly crafted, deeply personal tale centering on
the fulfillment of a dying man's last wish. It's definitely one of the best
stories of this kind that I've seen, no matter the medium. On top of that, it's
also definitely a game, and not just an interactive story. I've never experienced
a game like this. For this reason, it's tough to put into words how I feel
about it.
It's kind of like being blown away by a movie, but not by
the cinematography itself; or being truly moved by a novel or book, but not by
the writing style itself. In these cases, the artistic medium is exactly
that : a medium through which an experience is delivered.
To the Moon runs
in the RPG Maker engine. Even though To the Moon
is more of a story-driven adventure than a traditional RPG, they've put the
engine to good use. Having spent a significant amount of time working with the
engine, I quite enjoyed playing a game made with RPG Maker since I got to see
to what it was capable of when used well.
The fact that such a powerful experience was conveyed
through the RPG Maker engine showed me that it's possible to deliver a great
game through an easy-to-use engine. One doesn't need to be a professional
programmer to design a game with the user-friendly (yet highly customizable) RPG
Maker engine. The game is a good example of how amazing content can be presented in a simple and dated form.
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I'd like to come back to the Assassin's Creed comparison. I recently bought, played through, and
enjoyed Assassin's Creed III. The
game is technologically impressive with its own cutting-edge engine, but the
narrative, while not terrible "for a video game", is far from
excellent. To the Moon is the
opposite: while lacking technological excellence and impressive gameplay,
the game delivers an exceptional, deep, universal, thought-provoking, and often funny
experience unlike any other.
The way I see it, there are two ways to evaluate these games.
The first scale is based on the game elements, and on this scale, games like Assassin's Creed III would win hands
down. It has an epic cinematic journey littered with side quests spanning 30
hours of cutting edge gameplay. By traditional video game norms, this is well worth the $70
price. It was for me, anyways, and with its impressive sales, it's safe to
assume that it was for a lot of people. I walked away from the game satisfied. But
will I remember this game experience in ten years time? I'm guessing not, since
its qualities are mostly technical and on a gameplay basis, things which evolve rapidly
enough and noticeably improve year after year.
The second is based on the quality of the experience, and
it's on this scale that games like To the
Moon shines. I was surprised at how well the story of To the Moon was executed in the span of only three and a half
hours. Assassin's Creed III, far more technologically advanced, tried
hard to make me care about its characters, but even after 30 hours, it hadn't
really succeeded. I guess that's not the point of the game anyways. I got a much
more fulfilling experience with To the Moon, and all I needed to give was about four hours and
ten bucks. On this scale, To the Moon
is evidently a much better deal than Assassin's
Creed III, although it all depends on what you're looking for from your game.
Technology ages; an experience does not.
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