Come join our RPS Game Club liveblog for Unpacking this Friday!
We'll be chatting about the cosy puzzle game Friday 28th
This month's Game Club Pick is the wonderfully cosy puzzler Unpacking, so as is Game Club tradition we'll be doing another liveblog chat with you lovely lot Friday 28th at 4pm BST / 8am PDT. If you have opinions about Unpacking, we wanna hear them.
We'll be chatting about Unpacking's story, level design, our favourite moments, our frustrations, which plushie is the cutest, why the box 'pop' sound is so satisfying - anything that comes to mind. We want to thoroughly unpack this zen puzzle game. I promise I won't go on too much about how I think the boyfriend is the absolute worst. Promise. I've done that in article form now so it's all out of my system... Promise.
So, grab a cuppa and chuck your questions and anecdotes in the chat this Friday. We'd like to hear what you think! There's no pressure to contribute, you can sit back and watch us chat it out. If you'd like to read some good good words about Unpacking, I've chucked our review and some other bits below. It's been a busy month for RPS so might not be as many as usual. But yeah, hopefully, see you Friday!
Unpacking review
In her Unpacking review, AliceB described it as "a lovely story without words", and that it "leaves you room for interpretation, and invites you to be playful. It's absolutely lovely". She also bestowed it with the RPS Bestest Best badge, hell yeah.
Unpacking's finance bro boyfriend is the absolute worst
So here's my half-jokey, half-serious rant about the worst character in all of videogame history. I think that's an apt description, no? Regardless, because of the emotions it spured within me and it's fantastic storytelling, I also think it's one of the best levels in the game.
The little noises in Unpacking help make it a life you can understand
AliceB writes about the joy of Unpacking's sound design, specifically the fact that everything in the game makes a little noise when you place it on a surface or put it away. I couldn't agree with this sentiment more, for me it was the sound of the magnets snapping onto the fridge. Amazing.
Unpacking doesn't let me leave stuff on the floor and I feel personally attacked
Ed writes about the stresses of Unpackig not letting you leave objects on the floor, which I wasn't entirely convinced was an argument until he made the point of seeing "the floor as one enormous shelf" and now I can't stop thinking about that.