Hypnagogia 無限の夢 Boundless Dreams

Per essere un walking simulator è estremamente affascinante e coinvolgente. Il gioco è segmentato in livelli a sé stanti: alcuni molto d'impatto e altri decisamente meno, ma guardandomi indietro alla fine dell'esperienza non posso fare altro che consigliarlo. Lascia qualcosa.

Hypnagogia presents itself as a weird walking simulator at first. You just walk around a small level, talk to NPCs which may or not have a veiled social message in their dialogues, and then find yourself out of it rather quickly after clearing your objective in a rather anticlimactic way. You [strike]wake up[/strike] get teleported out of it abruptly and then you find yourself in a new level again, with a complete new setting but very similar course, since it's immediately clear you'll need to walk around a lot again and find a certain something. All of this sounds very boring and yet chances are you're already starting the third level, appreciating yet another new visual and setting, as well as the curious dialogues of the various NPCs and the endless references to classic media of the past. As a matter of fact, the deciding factor (in thinking this game was special) for me was that third "level", which starts just like the other two but soon becomes something different, something bigger, something special and truly... [i]dreamlike[/i]. This third level was the closest thing to a dream I've ever experienced in a videogame. The way it changes and completely shift the direction and the vibes is just like a dream, it doesn't have to give you a rational reason and yet you know deep down there's a perfectly good emotional one, so you don't question it. I was a bit stunned after finishing it, then kept playing. Were the other remaining levels as impressive as that? Only one way to find out.