By Alec Meer on January 22nd, 2013 at 8:00 pm.
If you like bamboozling investigation in the outer wilds of electronic entertainment but don’t like paying for it, your happiness processor might respond to the news that reliably obtuse devs Tale of Tales have a made a major element of their latest, Bientôt l’été, free and browser-based.
It’s the multiplayer aspect of the game, which in this case means an abstract cafe-based conversation with another player. It is, needless to say, odd, but it evokes Journey somewhat, in terms of figuring out unconventional ways to communicate with whatever perfect stranger you find yourself in the company of.
The singleplayer part, an even more dreamlike beach scene, remains paid, and is essential to having really any control of the ‘thoughts’ used for conversation in the multiplayer part. The free version gives you a random selection though, as well as allowing cloud-importing of sentences found in the full game. Private play is also possible, via a password system.
Urgh. All of that sounds completely inaccurate now I read it back. Trying to describe this is hard work – just take a look, presuming you’ve no objection to running the Unity plugin. (Click ‘try’ to get going).
You might like it, you might love it, or your might hate it. All of those are okay.
22/01/2013 at 20:01 Brun says:
What’s up with RPS and French today?
22/01/2013 at 20:14 Inglourious Badger says:
C’est roche, papier, fusil de chasse mais non?
23/01/2013 at 01:28 The Random One says:
Oui oui, noir garage menagerie hors d’ouvres déjà vu tête-a-tête menage a trois Citroën Asterix.
22/01/2013 at 20:25 captain nemo says:
It’s full of something. Hope normal service is resumed soon ….
22/01/2013 at 21:12 Llewyn says:
This is normal service. You are presumably looking for a more narrow-minded gaming site and have somehow failed to notice that this isn’t it.
22/01/2013 at 22:04 Pamplemousse says:
RPS comment threads have more people looking for fights these days than Croydon on Friday night.
22/01/2013 at 22:44 Revolving Ocelot says:
My pun thread is better than your pun thread. Wonna fight?
23/01/2013 at 02:44 Jackablade says:
Them’s fightin’ words!
23/01/2013 at 09:50 TomA says:
Put up your dukes sir, it’s time to take your chin for a spin.
22/01/2013 at 20:34 D3xter says:
Omelette du fromage?
22/01/2013 at 22:06 Brun says:
+1 for Name-Comment Comedy Combo!
23/01/2013 at 01:34 kkkwwwkkk says:
Please drink tea(place order from http://www.heyheytea.com ) when you play game or watch the computer.The Tea can helpful your health.Dont trust?let’s try it.Just come on.
23/01/2013 at 00:04 emertonom says:
It’s worth noting that, if the game can’t find you a “partner” (i.e., random stranger to talk with), the “simulation” option is idiotic–it pairs you with a computer-controlled partner who just spouts the nonsense at random. There’s no sense of a conversation at all. I found myself wishing one of the conversation options were, “I see that you have a cabbage.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbAohexT0Ho
23/01/2013 at 12:02 Sic says:
So, is it just a browser game, or can I run it as a stand-alone application as well?