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The Fall
The Fall is a side-scrolling adventure game with platforming and combat elements. Your character is an AI controlling a combat suit whose occupant is unresponsive and presumably dead or seriously injured. You have crash landed on an unknown planet for unknown reasons and must seek medical attention for your 'pilot'. The bulk of the gameplay resolv...
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- Released
- May 29, 2014
- Developer
- Over The Moon
- Publisher
- Over The Moon
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The Fall Reviews
Professional reviews from gaming critics
The Fall Part One’s minor gameplay shortcomings don’t even begin to tarnish the sheen on everything else. It’s a seductive old-school sci-fi yarn, with characters that somehow manage to represent greater ideas and exist as fully-formed beings. Even though two more episodes have been confirmed, the game ends on an exciting conclusion that could function either as a cliffhanger or a definitive finale. If you’re into books like The Martian Chronicles, there’s no reason to let some potential head-scratchers keep you from a great experience.
The controls could be more intuitive, as could interacting with objects, but overall The Fall's winning combination of great storyline, well-penned script and impressive game world makes it one of the best indie titles out there.
Ultimately, The Fall feels like you’re playing your way through a movie. Aside from a few control hiccups, it’s a playable movie in a genuinely good way.
A slow and bleak adventure, The Fall has a lot to offer those in need of a more cerebral experience. With its striking visual style and quality voice acting it draws you into a mysterious, albeit short tale, which is bound to satisfy should you have the patience to deal with its sometimes obscure puzzles and perfunctory combat. As the first game in a proposed trilogy, The Fall shows a lot of promise, and its riveting story will surely have its hooks in you upon its shocking conclusion.
Strong story-telling and puzzle design meets clunky combat in this short, but meaningful adventure game.Usually a system gets part one of a planned trilogy before part two, but the Switch — a [...]
So, will I continue to The FallEpisode 2? Only if Over The Moon fix the critical and aggravating flaws with the game. The story and writing was excellent and once I finally got used to all the poor design decisions I found out that the game was actually quite fun. Nevertheless, the controls remain an unintuitive mess (with both keyboard and gamepad), the Limbo shadow world-style easily hides important information or items, and if you get stuck there’s no help at all and nothing you can do o...