Tuesday 5 May 2009

Zeno Clash

Anyone heard of this game? It's sounds frickin' awesome. It's on the PC (meh) and is some sort of brawl 'em up set in Sigmund Freud's nightmare world. Read said link to grasp the technical aspects of the game (I'll assume you've read it) and there's one thing in this game that immediately grabs me - the character/creature Father-Mother. What an amazing idea for a creature! A ten foot tall half-chicken hermaphrodite with a coat full of babies, who is parent(s) to about twenty children that look nothing like each other.



Other than being really odd, this creature is an original concept - there's nothing else like it that springs to mind in games generally, but it's so steeped in Freudian psudo-psychology (the "loving, caring mother" and "stern father") it disturbs and intrigues at the same time. This is something I need to look at more in creature design.

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