Patrick Kennedy from BagoGames writes: We’ve all seen The Never Ending Story; it’s that 80’s classic fantasy epic where the kid reads a book and goes to a magical world with a giant white dragon that looks high and his horse who is majorly depressed and drowned in a lake of sadness. It’s a crazy film if you were an 80’s kid, and it became something of a trend came about with the film’s popularity. Most films failed or flopped due to this narrative type, and it was left alone over the years. But now it seems some designers may have brought us something of The Never Ending Story meets Full House (with no terrible acting or Olsen Twins but plenty of depressing drama). In the oddly named Between Me and the Night (I don’t get the name either).
Wiehahn Diederichs, Gearburn writes: "Between Me and the Night is Lisbon-based indie studio, Raindance LX’s, first released title and I must admit that I was quite impressed with their surrealistic point-and-click adventure. Although the game is not without its downfalls, it successfully delves into some deep and sometimes unnerving narrative themes, and with a depth I seldom experience in AAA titles."
Gabs from GamersFTW writes:Between Me and The Night will draw in players with its atmosphere and puzzles, but may lose them with the confusing story. It has great variety between reality and a game-world, but a lack of depth limits player engagement and satisfaction.
I am intrigued! Though I must admit, I'm getting a bit bored of playing games that don't live up to their description... Maybe I'll give this one a go though, love a good puzzle!
How much patience do you have with puzzle games? Or at least puzzle games in which the “puzzles” are simply impediments to progress that require artificial, multi-step solutions that are foreign to the simplicity of real life. Between Me and the Night is a stylish and moody adventure puzzle game that does a lot of things well, but fails equally hard in its controls and frustrating gameplay systems.
