Black people are high. We laugh loudly, we like loud, we protest loudly. But when we really want to show our approval, we are silent first. When we laugh at something funny, like Really Laughs, it looks like a thin house before a storm explodes. And within seconds of starting South of midnightWhen I was walking around the main character Hazel’s house and watching a piece of art that was a clear and deliberate tribute to Painter Annie Lee. Blue toeI laid my steam deck down lying down and adopted the silently adopted my room before starting Is running.
South of midnight This is the latest title of compulsion Games, a Canadian studio that is known for making We’re something happy. This young woman follows Hazel, who must save her mother after a hurricane broke her house. Along with his journey, he as a weav, or patrons comes into his powers who can see the Strands, known as the Grand Tapestra and repair it all his life when he becomes stressful and traumatic.
The game is an action plateformer. Hazel develops to fix the foggy landscape and defeat the enemies called Hunts. It is a southern term used to describe ghosts or monsters. She supports her in search of it through Croton, her childhood toy comes into life through powerful magic. He can handle the bodies of the enemy, fight them by Hazel, and squeeze the places where he is too big to reach.
I like when a piece of media talks to me as a black person. A TV show, cartoon, or even a video game will have small visual references or phrases that are like a secret code. I see or listen to them and know that a black man left me to find me. What made me? Huar It was midnight that its authors went for deep deductions. They have put the kind of things you just know about whether at least three of your grandparents were American blacks. Back in the day, All On both sides of my family had an Annie Artwork in the house. If it was not Blue toeIt was Sixty pounds – Which my mother hung on the window in our kitchen.
What made me? Huar It was midnight that its authors went for deep deductions.
Such a confession is everywhere in the game. This is the way Hazel and his mother, Lucy talk to each other, the words they use, and help them. Hazel did some dishonor, and his mother immediately. He called him: “I thought you were older.” This is the way in which catfish, magical, and excessive catfish that guide Hazel in his quest, reminds me of both of his. Lot Earlier this year, when I spoke to Vice and Motion Capture Director Ahmed Best for the game, he talked about how he wanted to make sure that every aspect came in authenticity. I noticed that Hazel’s fans pass through this way Just so much Mississippi to keep the heat in the bay. Instead of standing upright, she bows to her head when she waves her hand just as auntie born in the refusal.
The details were so small, but they gathered in my heart like water behind a levy. Each time I discovered something new – as I refer to Zora Neil Hurston’s novel in view of the titles of one of the games Their eyes were watching God – Emotions will explode as a flood of tears.
And this is not just a story that pays tribute to black and southern tradition and culture. He also does the game play. Instead of Too much (and unfairly) infamous yellow paint Used to indicate the climbing surface, South of midnight Use A very specific shade of blue – Colorful black people in the south used to paint their porches to keep the evil spirits away. There was a moment when I saw the blue butterflies shaved on a mountain surrounded by water that kills Hazel when he touchs it. Knowing that the game uses Blue to tell you where you can go safely, I took a jump of faith on the edge and got a secret power -up. The game talked to me using the language of my ancestors, and I heard it. Once again, I did Hold.
Like South of midnight I screamed, his fight made me a bit. Every combat conflict follows the same very basic formula. The enemies show in a field, you kill them, heal the wound, which causes the enemies to appear, repeat the ad with a special force on the nausea. It is so formulated that the fighter feels vistjal, as if it was put there so that the players need to give something else to do something else. Hazel’s abilities do not feel particularly fun or interesting, and, honestly, this game does not need to fight. Is so strong in telling the story South of midnight With some mild platforming action, it will be purely like a stilly narrative experience.
In fact, the game doesn’t even need to fight
In many cases, the Black Media should focus on reflecting the trauma, seeking widespread attention or critical definition. On the contrary, it is not so large, in which a piece of black media is excessively correct and completely refuses to recognize the traumatic facts that inform our existence. South of midnight With great tactics, the two schools of thought erection in an important way that I had never seen before.
South of midnight Sees me It gets me. Its creators wanted to create a love letter to a culture that was often not shown in the video games, and they did it exactly. At a time when my government is trying to do everything in its power Delete my peopleFor, for, for,. Their dateAnd Their contributions in the USI can’t promote the power that is seen – especially coming from a place like video games, which often bothered to recognize people like me.
The game came out on time, at the moment when such a story was most needed. South of midnight There is a loving and worshiper of the culture and people are reflected in it, making it difficult for me to remain silent for a long time.
South of midnight Now is the Xbox, Xbox Game, and Windows PC.
