Passage: A wondefully artistic and meaningful game.

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This free little indie game has garnered quite a reputation as one of the most artistic and thought provoking games ever.

A quote from one of the most recent articles on the game from Wired, titled Poetic Passage Provokes Heavy Thoughts on Life, Death:

[...]Wait: Did I call Passage a game? I actually meant to say poem. Because while Passage behaves like a game, it's psychically and aesthetically closer to a superb and tightly crafted sonnet. More than any game I've ever played, it illustrates how a game can be a fantastically expressive, artistic vehicle for exploring the human condition.

[...]Which is when I realized, with a stab of pain, just what Passage is:
It's a game about life.
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Download from here. http://hcsoftware.sourceforge.net/passage/

So yeah, once you're done playing that, play this flash game someone else made.

http://www.kongregate.com/games/raitendo/passage-in-10-seconds
 
Passage made me teary, Passage in 10 Seconds made me laugh...
 
As is usual, my total lack of empathy made me say little more than "interesting" and feel a small pang.
 
Which is when I realized, with a stab of pain, just what Passage is:
It's a game about life.
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Stigmata said:
That almost made me cry.
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This. I got a bit welled up after I sat staring blankly at the ending screen.
EDIT: Strike that, that made me cry after thinking about life as a whole and people i've never met and such.
 
Really?


I was being sarcastic when I made this thread. How was that at all emotional? You guys are gay.
 
See I played it and was mildly unimpressed and I didn't want to say anything because all you sappy saps would think I was a jerk but now Krynn's said that and now if I say I wasn't that impressed you will just think I'm jumping on the LOL I TROL U bandwagon

but I'm not I promise
 
See KA's on our side and we agree that wait perhaps i have misinterpreted somewhere yes I have what the hell KA
 
Look I'm sorry it's just it was so barebones and it's not that I was expecting more it's that it was pretty obvious what the whole god damn game would be about I mean you keep walking and the colours are slowly changing and I mean for god sake the game's called passage so NO when the DRAMATIC EVENTS occurred to be honest I was just like "well that could have been presented in a more meaningful and effective manner" so I'm sorry but I'm going to have to call all you saps sappy saps for being such sappy saps

I got more emotional when I realised I'd just shot Lamarr into space
 
Dogs don't have feelings.

But I liked it.
 
Someone wanted to be artsy, so he thought he'll make an ugly sidescroller and call it a game about life. Miss.

Well played with the "Passage in 10 seconds". ;)
 
I have no Idea what the hell that was. I even missed the woman on my first play.
 
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