Comments on: 7 Minutes: HyperNihilistic Indie Platformer

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 04:47:52 +0000

Definitely can’t get past the third or fourth screen, the one where it forks. I went up and there doesn’t appear to be any way out of that screen, and I cannot make the jump/fall for the lower route, I hit the spikes no matter what I do. Is there some mystical double jump or other controls that I’m missing?

By: chesh

chesh — Tue, 20 May 2008 05:50:52 +0000

This really just goes to show how far behind I am on my feeds. I actually enjoyed it quite a lot less once I got through to the credits.

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:02:48 +0000

@ April
I’d not read – I’d go for a Fallout 2 speed run.

Or boil seven eggs.

By: Minerva

Minerva — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:14:01 +0000

This is like when someone tells you a crappy joke. You sit there staring at them like they are stupid and they say, “You don’t get it….”

No, I get it, it’s just stupid.

This game is stupid, there is nothing to get. It’s a crappy platformer with a shitty ending. It’s not “art” anymore then publishing a book with incomplete sentences and blank pages is art. The only thing it is, is original. But guess what, every day I take a crap and it is different then the day before. It may be original, but it is still feces.

By: April

April — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 05:41:33 +0000

I like what this game taught me. If I have seven minutes to wait before I die I’m gonna read a book.

By: Mar

Mar — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 02:14:10 +0000

I liked the game. It took me two tries to get the ending but it was worth the 14 minutes of play. Its pretty easy when you know what to do.

By: Hidden_7

Hidden_7 — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 08:51:02 +0000

Some spoilers, be warned

Question for the people who “completed” it both ways. Do you consider having “won” if you stay in the room, thus complete it and get the credits, or make it to the “end” having not “completed” the game, but in defiance at least “beaten” it? For me it’s the latter. I’d much rather get an existential reading than a buddhist one out of this, but it seems that that is the Wrong reading.

By: Jonathon Halliwell

Jonathon Halliwell — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:25:50 +0000

I had to touch the blue thing, and out of sheer frustration at how much of a bastard the game was I had to complete it

By: Hypocee

Hypocee — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:22 +0000

Smee: That “hero actually doing evil” game you describe may well exist already, but if not it is coming soon. I apologise most humbly for the preciousness of not giving its name or even creator, but it’s such a HUGE spoiler that even I, with my virtual immunity to spoilification, balk at spreading it.

By: Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:12:51 +0000

Actually, I may write more on this, as I’ve changed my take a little.

(It’s a Buddhist game, innit?)

By: Synnah

Synnah — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:07:03 +0000

well, it’s kind of clever to get the player to wait 7 minutes in the same room, doing something else(i.e. playing contra 4 on the ds in my case)

Super Paper Mario makes you do that at one point. Only you can’t really do something else, as you have to hold right on the d-pad for a good 10 minutes. I was at least able to walk around the house, thanks to the Wii’s wireless controller.

By: El Stevo

El Stevo — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:40:29 +0000

A game where you have to do nothing for seven minutes to win. Snore.