To The Moon
Feb. 7th, 2014 11:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trickykittyI started up playing To The Moon this evening. I've already been playing for over 5hrs and I just finished Act 1 out of 4 Acts. (Granted, I'm a VERY slow game player that likes to look at everything and check out all the nooks and crannies of everywhere. Someone else could have finished the game twice over by now.)
The wife is on the spectrum. The two doctors helping to create a Vanilla Sky-like Grande Finale for the husband on his death bed are major geeks. The creator of the game is a Doctor Who fan who even names the wife River, which I'm going to take a wild stab references the Doctor's Wife, but could also be paying homage to Firefly/Serenity, as that was the first thought I had upon hearing the name, and a testament to exactly how geeky these two geeks are - I'd be fine it if were for both. Either way, there's a scene in which the geek docs are discussing how the husband managed to get a baby grand up a staircase, and one of them comments that it would be easy with a TARDIS, and the other disagrees, because it still wouldn't fit through the front door, and then they side track briefly into pondering an episode dedicated to this premise, all the while an AMAZING piano song is playing in the background, and all my brain meats are going, "Oh fuck, this song makes me want to cry (because the husband wrote it for his wife when she was practically on her death bed), and I miss playing the piano SO MUCH, and FUCK YEAH, someone get Capaldi working on a Piano Man episode!!!" Although, my bet is that there's already a music room somewhere in the TARDIS (Claire just never found it), and Billy Joel has already given an encore performance there.
The game is amazingly simple, yet amazingly poignant in it's messages (there are many). So far, with having only played 1/4th of the game, I still highly recommend it.
I'm considering buying the soundtrack to it.
While it would be a good one to play as we approach Valentine's, there was a great quote in the game (which I'm sure came from someone, but I've had too much alcohol this evening to care at the moment about looking it up):
"I'm not yours; You're not mine. Be my anti-Valentine."
I love it.
The wife is on the spectrum. The two doctors helping to create a Vanilla Sky-like Grande Finale for the husband on his death bed are major geeks. The creator of the game is a Doctor Who fan who even names the wife River, which I'm going to take a wild stab references the Doctor's Wife, but could also be paying homage to Firefly/Serenity, as that was the first thought I had upon hearing the name, and a testament to exactly how geeky these two geeks are - I'd be fine it if were for both. Either way, there's a scene in which the geek docs are discussing how the husband managed to get a baby grand up a staircase, and one of them comments that it would be easy with a TARDIS, and the other disagrees, because it still wouldn't fit through the front door, and then they side track briefly into pondering an episode dedicated to this premise, all the while an AMAZING piano song is playing in the background, and all my brain meats are going, "Oh fuck, this song makes me want to cry (because the husband wrote it for his wife when she was practically on her death bed), and I miss playing the piano SO MUCH, and FUCK YEAH, someone get Capaldi working on a Piano Man episode!!!" Although, my bet is that there's already a music room somewhere in the TARDIS (Claire just never found it), and Billy Joel has already given an encore performance there.
The game is amazingly simple, yet amazingly poignant in it's messages (there are many). So far, with having only played 1/4th of the game, I still highly recommend it.
I'm considering buying the soundtrack to it.
While it would be a good one to play as we approach Valentine's, there was a great quote in the game (which I'm sure came from someone, but I've had too much alcohol this evening to care at the moment about looking it up):
"I'm not yours; You're not mine. Be my anti-Valentine."
I love it.
