![]() If you’re eager to see what kind of stylish, inventive ways developers are finding to tell stories in games, this hard-boiled trip is worth the ticket. Your character is a jazz sax player, too, so music is a big part of the game. ![]() Playing Genesis Noir is a process of exploring the environment, pushing and pulling to see what happens and what sounds you make. Though some puzzles and controls can get pretty frustrating, the adventure itself is the draw, and with Genesis Noir, it’s a beautiful trip through primordial creation worth taking. It's a detective noir story that's figuratively the size of the universe - the Big Bang is the sound of a gunshot, fired by a jealous god. Descriptive text for evidence you’ve collected plays into the story, like a cigar that’s said to smell of extinguished ego “It’s tightly wound and recently put out.” It’s little moments like these that drew me in and hooked me on the story, endearing me both to the shady conflict between these characters and the time-bending, galaxy-shifting efforts No Man was making to put a stop to them.īy zipping through the creation of life itself, you might just find answers to why someone has been shot and how to stop it. So what starts as a noir-infused story about a jilted saxophone player expands to much, much more, as your journey to find a way to stop this all from ever happening dives deep into cosmic territory. Though it plays out in a predominantly black-and-white color scale, colors are used to denote specific points of interest, or to add a little flair to certain objects. The sharp lines of the 1950s can be contrasted against the vast beauty of the cosmos, and then again in comic panel cutaways. It looks incredible in stills and manages to maintain the style in motion, even as it jumps between different styles and settings. It’s a simple but extremely effective way of drawing the player in, and I was hooked on every twist and turn, theorizing what a clue I found in the cosmic slipstream might mean for the history of these characters.įinding these pieces of evidence through individual vignettes is also a visual treat. ![]() Visuals like a legendary musician building up an adoring crowd, then lamenting their absence help inform you who these characters are, and what might have led to the events of the night you’re trying to prevent. Outside of item descriptions and some dialogue later in the game, Genesis Noir is shown, not told. Most of the relationship between No Man, Miss Mass, and Golden Boy is inferred through imagery and symbols. Most of the story is unspoken and inferred. Genesis Noir is a love story that takes place before, during, and after The Big Bang the cosmic event that kick-started the universe.
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