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not really entertaining and agreed the title does relate to the game and the ending was really clever too totally unexpected overall its not really worth playing but at the same time it is the difficulty is good too it just takes timing and reaction with a little bit of luck the second boss gets hard too. overall 3/5 could've done better but i liked the 2-bit graphic style or whatever it is keep that and the difficulty of the games but work on everything else especially the enemies
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this is a greek tale... basically the guy was good at the harp (i think) went to get his dead wife from hades and he persuaded hades by playing a song for his wife and hades told the guy that she would follow him, but he couldn't look back to make sure she was behind him and as he stepped into the sunlight he looked back and she faded to dust
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Chill, The ending is symbolic of looking back. Basically, he looks back so far that he has to start over. (His girl died, and he wanted her back, so he had to go to the depths of purgatory to save her. Little did he know that he was simply killing himself.) A very deep game.
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Nice. Very nice. No one reads these anyway, so I don't feel guilty for speculating about spoilers: I guess in the end, it was all just wishful thinking?
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OH, I get the meaning of the title now. Whatever that myth was called again....
But I don't get the ending. Why do they both die or fade away?
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Okay, for anyone who wants the meaning of the ending spoiled (there's a lot of meaning throughout the rest of the game too), here's my take on it. The whole game was actually just a fantasy of the guy retrieving his dead wife's spirit from the underworld. When you return to where you started, it's revealed that your character is just a fantasy, and the real you is still standing on your wife's grave. The fantasy of both yourself and your wife's spirit then vanish as you're confronted by cold hard reality -- that no one ever comes back from the dead, even in spirit form. Excuse me, but I have something in my eye...
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well i got to the end -- it was pretty fun, but the bosses were pretty annoying... the ending was great, but pretty depressing. i liked how you couldn't look back on the return trip (makes sense). overall it was ok.
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Yes, I think most of us know about the greek myth. I really really liked the ending. About the game, very enterteining and VERY comfortable you respawn on each room without live limits or nothing.
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and by the way lol wen i beet the dog ther was a lil demon after i was thinking that it was your wife and i beet the game but evry time i tutcht it i died lol
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5/5 game but i dont understand the ending.. some random guy looks at the grave and i die... some 1 explain it to me plz
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Beat it. it was nice. the end makes sence to the title. and when you get the ghost... more sence. dog boss was easy to figure out. and the secret to the demon boss dont jump off the pads and keep shooting his head every chance you get. turning right with the ghost? it's possible.
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a very good game...
tho the bosses gave me a little trouble... but its really a die and try again thing... then its easy :D
the dog u have to shoot his behind to kill...
for the 1st time just go behind him either by jumping or running under... 2nd time stand near him and let him jump over then shoot him... and the 3rd jump over him...
then the big demon guy... well he took a while but... when u jump down make sure u land on that thing.. the top block... shoot his head then wait and shoot it again... then ull fall... just dodge and get to the next block as fast as u can... took like 5 trys and i got him :)
the rest is easy just dont look back... which was a nice touch... :)
u can easily run thru everything... very little actual doging on the way out...
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very annoying controls for a game designed to be such a hard platformer, they seemed slow to me... but i'm only part way through, and i hope it gets better towards the end
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The whole game was the guy's fantasy, based on the old Greek myth about a lover who rescues his beloved from the depths of Heck. 5/5. I loved the story, and yeah, the controls were frustrating at times, but you didn't have to restart constantly. It's almost like in an old NES game. Reminds me of Maniac Mansion a little bit.
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this game is really cool but it needed to be longer.. i thought it was pretty easy, i think the only time i died was because of looking back
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Orpheus was the son of the Muse Calliope and therefore a grand musician. His wife was a dryad, Eurydice, who also attracted the attentions of Aristaeus. Aristaeus pursued her until she stepped on a poisonous snake and was forced into the Underworld. Orpheus was determined to retrieve his beloved. He journeyed down to the underworld, first charming Charon, ferryman of the dead, and lulling to sleep Cerberus, the three-headed watchdog. He encountered Hades, who initially refused to release Eurydice, but Orpheus's music so touched Persephone that she pleaded Orpheus's case, and Hades relented. There was one condition: that Orpheus not look back on their way out. Of course, Orpheus was worried that Eurydice was not behind him, and he fatefully glanced back to see if she was following him. She disappeared back into Hades, and he lost her forever.
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To a_wise_fish: Simple, you just kill it QUICKLY.
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I wonder if there's another ending for completing it without dying.
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This game is excellent. I felt a little sad every time I saw my ghostly friend turn to dust. Game was tough, but not impossible. I hope to someday be able to make games this good.