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For those who do not know: It is the greek myth of Orpheus (did I spell that right?) in the underworld. In a nutshell, heres the story: A great bard Orpheus lost his wife to a poisonous snake. He loved her so much, that he went to the underworld to speak with Hades. Along the way, he sung a song of such great sorrow that even some of the spirits wept. Hades agreed to let his wife return to the land of the living on one condition: That Orpheus could not look back to make sure his wife was still there. He climbed the steps from the underworld to the land of the living, and when he was almost there, he looked back, and the wife's spirit dispersed. THE END.
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Oh my god. I jut got to the moment where you get your wife. I looked at the title and flipped. Out, Great game play. Awesome re-telling 5/5
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I wish I could like this game more, but enemies coming from behind and platform jumps that you have to solve in about two seconds before you die are just aggravating. I barely got past Cerberus. An easy version with everything slowed down for those who just want the story would be really nice. I've read that the story is wonderful, but I can't finish the game.
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ah and by the way i think about a different meaning of the end..never look back...when u focus too much on what u lost u get sucked into a nightmare , trying to find a reason,trying to give a sense to your loss...there's a high chance you won't come back and even if you find the solution,even if you manage to get back, probably,it's already too late,probably,now you are just another ghost...
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@Ireneuszz: it is the myth of Orpheus, who travels to the underworld to save his loved one, but just before he is al; the way up again, he looks back... Its such a sad story...:(
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At which point do you think we are ever gonna be proposed stickers in the shop? It has been about a month at this point.
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Played for the badge. I enjoyed the challenging game design at first. But towards the end the unresponsive controls took the fun out of it
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This game is quite challenging, but screens are short and reset quickly if you fail them. It allows you to adapt a strategy for each encounter and incrementally figure out how to outmaneuver the enemies. The bosses are pretty fun and have simple mechanics. The only thing that felt really unfair was the projectile randomness in the fights against Hades and especially against the first shooting enemy. It shoots too fast to jump over all projectiles and the only strategy I've found to kill this guy is to beg RNG for it to shoot enough fireballs over my head to let me kill it while jumping over the ones aimed at me. The second half of the game is incomparably easy though and all the empty rooms break up the action to make it all the more boring. If those rooms featured some writing, for example messages tempting Orpheus to turn around, they would at least be interesting. Fun but not without flaws, 4/5 for a pretty nice game and good memories from when I first played it 10 years ago.
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Interesting take on a classic myth, and an "A" for effort, but the nasty difficulty curve and repetitive (albeit decent) music forces me to relegate my score to a 3.
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1: for all you losers that say the dog doesn't die, shoot his rear, not his head. 2: Don't say the game sucks just bc you suck AT IT. 3: for the last boss shoot him on the way down, then jump and shoot again before the platform disappears. Also, I found it easier to kill him quick rather than being patient. 4: You don't have to kill everyone, so when it comes to snakes, jump over them! Great game 5/5.
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Iremember when this first came out...I was amazed at how sunch a simplistic game could give some sad and uneasy emotions. To me, it's a classic!
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Quite moving, very thought provoking game. The reference to Greek mythology is rather interesting, I saw after the first few times that the title of the game translated literally to the game.
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Completed game, didn't get achievement, and because of ending, can't screenshot as proof of completion, cos it's the same as the title screen :\
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To me, first, the meaning of the title was litterally not to look back not to get his beloved gone. But then, when he looked at himself alone in front of the grave, the title was written again, "Don't look back", which gave it another meaning : what he did by trying to get his woman back was trying to change his past. He had looked back. That's why he disappeared ! Nevermind, no need to talk about the game : it's deep enough for everyone to have their own thought.
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to those who dont know this game is based on ancient greek mythology about when Orpheos goes to the underworld to save his dead wife uredessy from the Greek god Hades and when he gets there he plays a very sad song(he was a master of the harp)so hades tells him he can bring her back but he can not look back or else she will be dragged back to the underworld. +this so people can see whats the meaning of this game
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how much I love Orpheus and the myths, this one actually improved it! If only he (standing at the grave) looked back and THEN faded the game would've been perfect.
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any1 else see a connection 2 greek mythology with oryphese and the nymph (sorry if i spelled anything wrong i only know the story)
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I wonder..... the story says that Orpheus can't look back until he reaches the upper world. Did anyone try to look back once you got out of the underworld and before you reached the grave?
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if i had to guess... i would say this game is based off the old greek myth of the man who went to the underworld to find his deceased love, and made a deal with hades who said that he could only have her if he led her out without looking at her
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i really love this kind of games. like company of myself and ofcourse this, i really think that they should make a category for this kind of games. 5/5 stars.
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wow... one week after i read the myth Orpheus and Eurydice and then I find a game on it... my English class is haunted!!! O3o