Caligo

A short, original game with a personal, subjective view of the world. It's more like a philosophical essay wrapped in a game format, which doesn't make it any less enjoyable. Many static scenes, expressing the author's personal allusions and associations, and corridor-like passage. It's like watch short movie.

2.2 I really did not enjoy this even at it's short length. At it's core it's a slow 'walking sim' that is trying to evoke a feeling of walking through paintings that is trying to have a theme and depict a specific message. But it starts to explain itself too much whilst also getting very preachy on what it is trying to say and too in your face. The environments are mostly pretty boring and uninspiring looking, Some of the parts within them show some interest but on their wholes are just boring. The voice acting was incredibly poor, from the robotic delivery to the stunted script. The MC has a strange accent that is a weird blend that sounds european at times but mostly blends into like a kind of 'New York' esque impression, it's quite jarring. There's 20 collectible ink drawings to find through the game that don't respawn after being picked up on subsequent plays (from chapter select) but there is also no library I saw to look at them later. Some areas had objects LoD models popping in and out at a fairly close distance which was jarring especially for the 'art' aspect. The final area especially had entire huge crystal portions that were flickering based on angle which looked really poor. I thought that maybe this was a first project or something by the devs but then I saw they had two games prior, I have no idea on them or their quality, they look to be different genres. Supposidly there was an update to it last year with optimisations, I dread what it was like prior. I then also noticed that this cost money, I have no idea where or when I got it or even how much I paid but I was kind of taken aback at least at it's full listed price.

Это не та игра, где ты что-то «проходишь» в привычном смысле. Скорее это медленное, почти медитативное путешествие по чужим мыслям и ощущениям. Локации выглядят как фрагменты сна, а происходящее подаётся через образы, звук и текст, из-за чего ты не столько играешь, сколько погружаешься в настроение. Атмосфера здесь очень сильная: тишина, музыка и визуальные эффекты создают чувство одиночества и размышления. Иногда вообще кажется, что ты не в игре, а внутри чьего-то внутреннего монолога. Caligo может показаться странной или даже скучной тем, кто ищет экшен, но для тех, кто любит атмосферные, философские проекты, она оставляет после себя тихое, но запоминающееся впечатление.