Jonathan Coutiño
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Randal’s Monday should only be played exerting extreme caution and being advised that you are going to have an incredibly frustrating time and that all of the effort you put in each puzzle will go poorly rewarded. Although, if you are a pop culture lover, Easter egg hunter with absolutely no sense of impatience or frustration, then Randal’s Monday is the game for you. Point-and-click adventure games are the most similar in construction to an interactive book and, because of that, its narrative tends to be powerful and immersive. Take a look to titles from the TellTale Games library, if you want, or any LucasArts game of the genre. TellTale is a keen example on how narrative based games are not doomed to cease to exist, and Randal’s Monday was meant to strengthen that notion. The references overload should make this one of the best titles of the year, as well as its voice acting, but, unfortunately, what actually happened is very different and this game’s only merit is to serve as a doctoral thesis on how not to write the mechanics of a point-and-click adventure game.
If you’re a fan of the zombie genre or if you’re a fan of the Dead Island games, avoid Escape Dead Island; trust me when I say you won’t be missing anything and you will save yourself hours of frustration and quite a headache. The game is flawed and should be a lesson on how not to tell a story. Even when you want to be cryptic of deep you should never ever do what this game does, especially in that same fashion AND, I can’t shake this off my head, with the cheap gimmick in the post-credits “scene”.
This War of Mine is the war game we didn’t know we wanted, but that we definitely needed. In an industry where war has been so dehumanized and violence is everywhere like it was nothing, This War of Mine creates a new panorama and provides us of a whole new scope from which we can see the true face of horror, the darkest side of humankind and the bravest color of human spirit. This will, definitively, be in my list for game of the year.
Contrast is a beautifully well-built game when it comes to visuals. It's a moderately fun game and a good option if you have some time to kill, but it is definitely not a game to die for.