Have You Played... Arise: A Simple Story?

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Have You Played… Arise: A Simple Story?It’s really not complicated

It’s really not complicated

Arise: A Simple Storyis a game about the three Ls. No, not Lemons, Lemons, Lemons (a small joke for RPS Vid Bud fans, there), but life, love, and loss. You know, the BIGGIES. In it, you’re reliving the memories of a sweet old man as he journeys on to the after life, taking in everything from the breathless rush of childhood, where you’re bounding across giant sunflowers in the wind and hitching rides on the back of bumblebees, to the first blush of romance and the heartache of later life. It is, as its title suggests, not a complicated story, but man alive does itgoplaces.

Childhood writ large.

There’s also a really weird bit that’s meant to represent the ‘growth’ of blokey’s first child, and you have to jump between various sizes of pink blobs until you cause enough dandelion-esque plants to burst into life so the big plant in the middle can birth a literal egg when you get to the top. I wish I was making this up.

Yeah, I have no idea what’s going on here, either…

If you dug Rime, then you’ll almost certainly dig this, too, so why not give it a go on theEpic Games Store?