![]() ![]() The reviews at the end of each life section do not ring completely true but nonetheless suggest satisfying cumulative consequences to choices. Alter Ego is more complicated than either, of course, with its interactivity allowing for a lot of variables in play. You failed to take the hints that there was at least as much Choose Your Own Adventure as The Game of Life in there, and were punished accordingly. You do not make it further, as you fail to choose to run away fast enough from a stranger in a car, and your alter ego is abducted and killed. You get informed after a fridge investigation scenario that the wrong choices could have led to death by poisoning. You click your way through a lot more scenarios, from the serious to the amusing, from the mundane to the slightly less mundane. The psychology elements work a little better. They make it difficult for you to enjoy the comedy. As a new parent you have been aware at all times of your child’s personhood but have tried hard to avoid exactly this tendency, acutely aware of its heartbreaking implications. You recognise the tendency to present babies as fully formed adult minds trapped in the body and perception of a newborn. These make play out of uncomprehending descriptions of a dog as a ‘furry man’ and similar, but soon get onto stuff like saving up saliva to drool on people in revenge for unwanted attention. You are taken on to a bunch of questions from the perspective of a baby. It asks if you would like to take a little more time before coming out.Īction: HESITATE AND PICK TO COME OUT PEACEFULLY NOW ![]() ![]() Your first scenario tells you that you are in a warm, dark, comfortable place and it’s almost time to enter a different world. You are playing this game as a new parent to a baby born prematurely. You get a pretty familiar outline of your characteristics. The personality test pretty much resembles the kind of thing you get at work a lot, with a couple of extra meta ones like asking if you will answer honestly and if you think these questions are a waste of time. After a first choice of picking the male version of the game rather than the female one, you are initially greeted with a set of questions to determine your alter ego’s personality. Your responses are generally requested in the form picking a mood and action from lists. You are, for the purposes of your games blog, about to play 1986 life simulator Alter Ego, which takes you slowly through an entire life via a series of short text scenarios with multiple choices. Plus, the soundtrack is on Spotify.Alter Ego (Activision, Commodore 64, 1986) ![]() Most unsettling mobile game moment lol.)Īnyway, if you’re into mind-boggling stuff, do check this game out. try not logging into the game for 2+ weeks and log in again. I may be reading too deep into this, but that’s how I feel. And being lost in trying to understand herself. What I’m trying to get at is that, despite being a game, she felt like she’s… real. (fourth wall breaking incoming) She might guess that she is just a fictional character, but because you’ve been through so much with her to reach the true ending… Well, you just can’t break it to her. What makes this game special is how real Es is despite being a fictional character. I’ve been trying to hunt for Moon over the Mountains and Thousand Year Beach, but it’s only available in Japanese. Now I want to read everything Es is recommending. The only books I’ve read before playing this game are Osamu’s Ningen Shikkaku, Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, Shelley’s Frankenstein, and Carroll’s Alice Adventures in Wonderland. What I love most about this game is that it introduced me to great books (some of which I’ll probably not get to read until I master a certain level of Japanese or some publisher localized it into English/Thai). I could almost share Es’s struggles to understand herself (although I haven’t developed an existential crisis. I played this game while going through a rough patch, and I felt it helped me somewhat make sense of what I’m feeling. The gameplay involves tapping on book quotes, advancing your book progress, unlocking new books (kind of like cookie clicker), interacting with Es, and doing personality tests. I’ve never played a non-horror game that is as unsettling as Alter Ego.Īlter Ego tells the tale of you and Es, as… you navigate through tons of book quotes and discover your true self. ![]()
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