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Review
This is a surreal game set in the desert where you examine eight different objects and make various choices concerning them, which are then sealed in. At times the game mentions connections between two items; for me they were the last two I had chosen each time, but I don't know if that changes on different playthroughs.
It has lovely looking sand art that looked really hard to make but visually appealing.
When I say surreal I mean very surreal, like between The Wasteland and Finnegan's Wake surreal. Here's an excerpt:
What horizons can we reach with twining? The process is strict but has an end. She comes up with a new weave for her tale. It goes like this: sand. The weaving proceeds from absence to absence. This happens every Thursday. A kiosk is so very far from her. Oh, didn’t you know, she says? It is a strange affair.
It's writing that willfully impedes understanding for effect, with just enough connections between sentences to trick your brain into thinking it knows what's going on but an overall effect of something unfamiliar. It's like the text equivalent of a Dali painting.
This beautiful and hard-wrought story that defies categories and quantification is, unfortunately, entered in to the 'categorization and hard quantification of games by group vote' competition, and so is subjected to numerical evaluation. But I think that the ranking of this particular game won't really matter; what matters more imo is what people feel or experience while playing it.
