Silent Conversation

A platformer that adds a neat, if blunt and sometimes annoying, spatial/textural quality to prose, but the videogame obligations—points, enemies, deaths—are a big let-down. The “game” aspect of should've been tailored to the “literature” aspect and not the other way around. Just let me wander through gimmicky interactive text layouts in peace! Other issues: poor colour contrast; horizontal tunnels of text are a pain to read; and level designs are either very literal, very abstract, or copied from the original print and don't really express new ideas or interpretations from the game's creator. An adaptational experiment that gestures at a path it fails to tread.