Analysis: Mole’s Eyes – Fatale’s Storytelling Attitude
Emily Short @ Gamasutra: "Recently Tale of Tales (of The Path fame) released a new interactive piece called Fatale, which explores the tale of Salome, the dancer who in compensation for her dancing requested (and got) the head of John the Baptist on a silver platter.
Like The Path, Fatale is by turns frustrating and fascinating, with controls that vex and nervewrackingly slow pacing. It’s infuriatingly easy to nose yourself into some corner of the playspace and have trouble backing out. (It doesn’t help that I was playing on a Mac, so the work’s built-in instructions to use, e.g., the middle mouse button were unhelpful.) On the other hand there is so much incidental beauty and horror that one almost doesn’t mind."
