The Indie Game Website writes: "Time: we never seem to have enough of it. Arise: A Simple Story is an exploration of time, both mechanically and narratively, with you playing as an old man reminiscing about his life and partner. It’s like Up’s famous montage intro, only told more abstractly and over the course of an entire game rather than in 10 minutes."
Arise: A Simple Story is a beautiful tale about a man traveling from one world to the next in a tale of life, love and loss.
GameInformer:
Even with some iffy platforming, Arise is an emotional tour de force, exploring themes of memory, romance, family, and grief, along with how they all tie together.
Shaun writes: Developer Piccolo Studio’s debut game, Arise: A Simple Story, really hit me with a hard gut-wrenching punch.
From its opening moments of witnessing the protagonist’s funeral, to his journey through limbo accessing his old memories, I couldn’t shake the feeling of finality and loss.
It gave me the same sunken feeling I get every time that I watch the video to Johnny Cash’s version of ‘Hurt’.
