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IFComp 2023: Detective Osiris, October 1, 2023A murdered god wanders Ancient Egypt to inquire of gods and royals the mystery of his death. Sound intense? Detective Osiris does gesture towards its stentorian drama, like when sky goddess Nut muses on the strained symbiosis between humanity’s voraciousness and the gods’ creativities: “When we first created the world, it was tiny. It was so small, but it had everything we thought that people needed. / And, try as we might to provide everything, the mortals just kept expanding their efforts. They wanted more. More land for farming, more troves of natural resources, more things to discover, more knowledge of the world around them, and its limits. / So we kept making it bigger. We added more forests, then deserts, mountains, the ocean. Before long the people began to divide into countries. Sumer first, then Elam, and here in Egypt. / Shai tells me that one day, many summers and winters from now, humankind will set their sights on the sky itself. By then, they’ll scarcely even believe in us, only in themselves. So they’ll seek to conquer the sky with elaborate machinery, forged of metal. When that day comes, we’ll have to move even further away, and build more, for them to explore.” As an apotheosized mortal yet to develop an aspect, this polytheistic cosubstantiation through ideal and iteration offers a dizzy array of thematic jewels to inlay in Osiris’ reckoning with the divide between earth and sky. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
Comments on this reviewPrevious | << 1 >> | Next RadioactiveCrow, October 3, 2023 - Reply I'm glad someone other than me caught that Alexandria wouldn't be a city for centuries (millenia?) hence. I didn't put it in my review because there were plenty of other things to talk about, but it is a clear anachronism. kaemi, October 3, 2023 - Reply Thanks! Enjoyed your review as well. Also, you mentioned missing a chunk of content because of the ending, but I opened the game in Word, and it looked like you can't actually do anything but accuse Osiris. I could be wrong, but I think it's meant as a twist ending that reveals Osiris' newfound god aspect, rather than a true ending you can solve for. RadioactiveCrow, October 3, 2023 - Reply Ah! Good to know! |