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This game was a good challenge. It would of been frustratingly hard if you didn't get to retry at the start each screen you failed on. Fair play to you for that
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@daexion Oh good god. Here you have a really awesome short experience and you can't sit down and play the first 5 minutes.
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Story is actually about Orpheus, not Oedipus. Sorry normally I wouldn't correct such a thing, but Oedipus is famous for marrying his mother and committing incest, so I feel like I needed to clarify. Orpheus' wife, Eurydice, had died from a venomous bite from a snake. Orpheus bravely traveled to the underworld to get her back, and was the first and only person to move the God of the Underworld, Hades, by playing his music. He allowed Orpheus to have Eurydice back on one condition - he couldnt look back at her unless BOTH were outside of the Underworld. There are a few variations on the story but the most common one is, as soon as he had stepped outside the Underworld, he anxiously looked back only to see her fade away.
I really love Greek mythology and this was an amazing interpretation and representation of such a moving story. Thank you. It's because of games like these I'm going to seriously consider donating game developers...once I actually get a job and paypal, that is...
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icesoul56's comment this is the story of a greek myth: Orpheus was a skilled minstrel who was to marry Eurydice when she suddenly died. So he traveled into the underworld and convinced Hades with his music to let her go. Hades agreed on the condition that Orpheus could never look at Eurydice-who would follow behind him-until he was out of the underworld.
Orpheus and Eurydice began their travel above, but Orpheus began to fear that he was tricked. So when they were close, he looked behind him and saw his love before she returned to the underworld.
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I come back to this game year after year and it never fails to amaze, touch and unsettle me. Especially those sighs. Love the atmosphere of this game, thank you!
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I use to play this back in school with my buddies. Good times. We never got past the 2nd boss but today, I completed the game.
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ok apart from the chills that i got from just the ending scene alone i f*cking love how funny it is that somebody essentially went "orpheus with a gun" and proceeded to make a entire game about it thats most of the game
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The randomness in keyboard responsiveness makes this a pain at times, yet overall the game has a nice touch to it.
For everyone wondering: The dog has to be shot in the back thrice, whilst the big boss has to be shot in the head about five times. For what it's worth, I found the dog to be harder than the big boss. ^^
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I love the game. Not only isit adventuress and entertaing but sad at the same time faved 5/5. Games that include art and philosophical are always amazing and emotional games...... my favorite kind.
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Fun game! Attempted to do a no gun run, but had to kill both bosses, a bird by the time-disappearing bridge where a ton of birds spawn on both sides, and two of the 6-armed creatures that you can't jump over. And a poor spider died when the final boss died, but I didn't kill it directly.
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Awesome! I have to admit "Dragons_scorn" for his idea. Kongregate definitely needs a new category for this kind of game. There are a lot of sad and thoughtful games around here which get lost in the sea of flash games in wrong categories. 5/5
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the game design is 100% vintage, about trying the only possible combo, love it, as it remains easier than some of the nightmares I had back in the days. Good work!
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It didn't take me long to beat this game. I recognized the Orpheus reference early on, and I got really into it after that.
The ending caught me off guard, but it was incredible. So sad and beautiful. It made me weep.
This is certainly one of the best games I've ever played.
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... I can't tell if I'm damaging the dog or not, and I can't tell if the dog is supposed to occasionally go through the barrier that damages me but not him?
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like nixter i too have played odd games weather online or on the pc but this one stands out of those wierd games as of a good kind of wierd in witch there should be more games like this