A couple of nights ago I woke up in the middle of the night and somebody was pointing a gun with silencer at me through my wall. I jumped out of bed and ran into my hallway and there I sat for a good 10 minutes worried someone was trying to kill me until I realised it was all a dream. Even when I realised it was a dream I carefully went back into the bedroom and checked the wall to see if the gun was there. It was that vivid that I was convinced it was real.
This I feel is a side effect of playing too many games, especially ones with guns. I am sure most of you gamers out there have at one point dreamt about being in a game. For me it doesn’t happen often, but when it does it is certainly not forgettable.
What has this got to do with Linger in the Shadows from the PS3? Well speaking of dreams, this game is like one weird dream. It is the weirdest, dreamiest game I have ever played, it is like all your strangest dreams rolled into one freaky episode. In fact it is not even a game, it is an interactive video. I know after “playing” this game (video) that i will definitely be dreaming about it at some point in the next few weeks. It is not scary, it is weird – choose any synonym you like…
| Synonyms: | bizarre, cranky, curious, erratic, freakish, idiosyncratic, odd, outlandish, peculiar, quaint, queer, quirky, singular, strange, unnatural, unusual |
It could be any of those, in fact I would go as far as to say it is quite disturbing. This video (game) is so strange that every PS3 owner must play it, purely for the experience of knowing what it is like to see a giant cat or a twisted cog or even a flying dog with massive ears. Even the list of synonyms above cannot explain how I feel about this game. It is truly unique and not in a particularly pleasant way. I have no idea what I am doing, there are no help files, no tutorials and you are just thrown into this video with a few icons here and there which mean nothing at all and the video keeps rewinding itself and playing again because I am missing that sweet spot to do something, except I don’t know what or how.
For the love of gaming gods, everybody has to try this video (game). it is only £1.99 and will serve you with the weirdest game experience you have ever had. You can then go and dream about flying dogs with gigantic ears.
