My biggest complaint is that, at times, the game’s checkpoints seem a bit far apart, meaning you’ll need to try the same frustrating sections over and over again. For the most part, the voice you hear most often, that of Adam, the creator, is fine, but the few times you hear other voice actors in the game, they sound a bit like they’re just phoning it in and reading (poorly) from a script rather than truly delivering the lines. The game’s voice acting, too, is hit and miss. Some of the game’s flaws are more mechanically-oriented: it can be somewhat difficult to place objects exactly where you want them at times, making some of the game’s challenges more difficult than they need to be. Inked’s story is highly symbolic, and by the end of the game, its strange narrative choices tend to make sense more than they don’t, you just have to trust that the team’s story is cohesive and stick it out. Of course, this is, at times, seemingly explained away by the volatile and shattered psyche of the creator who may, in fact, want to lose. Any power he has is given to him by his creator and, as demonstrated later in the game, can be just as easily taken away. The story, while powerful for the most part, comes across as a bit forced and fallacious at first - the idea that the protagonist has any power to combat his creator seems to be tainted by the fact that the protagonist himself is a creation of the antagonist. Of course, like most games, Inked isn’t perfect. The puzzles, with few exceptions, are cleverly crafted and intuitive, and there were few times that I ever got stuck to the point that I had to actually quit and get away from the game and clear my head. You’ll start out creating cubes to weigh down pressure blocks and eventually work your way up to creating wind blocks to push little sailboats, or fire to burn away brambles. In order to progress through the game, the player must create simple shapes and, eventually, more complex objects to solve puzzles. Allow me to simply say that, while a bit forced, perhaps even hackneyed at times, it is clever, heart-felt, and relatable to anyone who’s ever experienced tragedy or loss. Even the idea that the game’s main antagonist is the “author” could be considered such a spoiler, so you’ll pardon me if details of the game’s story are a bit sparse in this review. Story-wise, Inked is a difficult game to review, because my first instinct as a reviewer is to avoid spoilers.but a lot of the game’s story could be considered spoilers. What starts out as a seemingly ordinary storybook turns into a story of vengeance and loss in which the player must guide the game’s nameless protagonist to get revenge against their own creator. Inked is the maiden voyage, so to speak, of Croatian developer Somnium Games, and it’s a worthy first offering. Author,” an intriguing concept that I hadn’t seen explored fully.until I played Inked. The final conflict on the grid is “Man vs. Reality, conflicts that only would have emerged recently with our more modern (or rather, postmodern) literature trends. Any English major learned these, of course, but the comic also added a list of post-modern conflicts like Man vs. In 2014, an internet comic by the name of Grant Snider listed the types of conflict in literature, such as Man vs.

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