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I just <3Loved How challenging this game was and the twist at the end AMAZING I hope to see games of this quality around KONGREGATE forever =)
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In the Greek Version, Orpheus was a beautiful singer and lyre player. When his love, the nymph Eurydice, died, he went to Hades (underworld) to convince Hades (the God of the underworld) to give Eurydice back. Hades couldn't resist the music. He promised Orpheus Eurydice back, but only if he could walk all the way back without looking back once. He managed to get back to the gates of the underworld, but just before going trough, he wanted to make sure she was still following him, and looked back... and she was lost. He tried to go back for her, but this time Cerberus didn't forsake the gate and didn't let him through. Without Eurydice, Orpheus didn't want to go on living The Maenaden, female followers of Dionysos, loved his music and when he didn't play music anymore, they ripped him into pieces. His soul went to the underworld, and he was together with Eurydice again in the afterlive.
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Old Greek mythology, a man wanted his wife back from the dead. He traveled to the underworld, battled demons, and was told that he can have his wife back if her spirit can follow him back up, but he was never allowed to look behind him for his wifes spirit. In the end, he looked behind him, and he never retreived his wife. Sad story, great game.
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I voted this game low because it's just so darn hard. There are other ways to be philosophical than just having a player die over and over. There are some screens where you just seriously have to do it 50 times and get it right from pure luck. NOT FUN.
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man you try going to hell by defeating 2 evil underworld dudes to save your loved one then coming out of that amazingly deep cave through a different route (there isnt one way into hell??)
climbing up several ropes and a cliff getting back to your loved ones grave (coming back you cant look back) and then dissapearing as if it was all for nothing
still sad *sigh* 5/5
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Wow. Just... wow. Everything just works for some reason. The graphics, the storyline, especially the music - Brilliant game, 5/5.
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So I think that was his soul on a mission making him happier, but it can't meet her soul on that task.Greek mythology.Anyways he finnaly recodnizes that her soul will alwqays be with his soul...
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Don't know why this game have 3.92 rating... Such great game, great story... 5/5 and faved, also I agree, that there must be a "Philosophy games" category... Like such games very much...
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haha so dante is a copy of orpheus... now thats new!.. anyways this game is a perfect 10! love it , is hard enough, it makes you think... the ending is crazy!
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Okay, If any of you don't get the meaning of this, it's that our main character here just lost a loved one and he's dreaming of how he could've saved her from this underworld, if he hadn't looked back and grew the confidence to face forward. But as soon as he's done dreaming, his imagination finishes as does the person he wishes he could be.
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ok im makeing a walk thru for the bosses the 1st one shoot its a$$ and then for the 2nd boss shoot its head (try to combo your attacks on his head before landing on the ground) then just walk to the flying girl and go back to your start where you win but it be hard cuse you cant look at the girl
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Sad if you put it to a real life context..many people face tragedy like this and think about it their whole life, and realise after only what feels like a day but many years infact passes they die..sad context as i said before. But yeah, Kong needs a category for these types of games. Like an other game i remember, it was amazing i can't remember the name though..about a hermit who lost his wife or something :S
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Don't Look Back is a modern retelling of the story of Orpheus and Eurydice.but it is slighty modernised as in the old version there was a harp instead of a handgun and he wasn't in a flash game.deep philosophical meaning gets a 5*'s from me.
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seeing that this is based off an old story it makes me wonder why other stories don't have games about them. I really liked the whole concept of the game and it didn't even follow the story exactly if it had it would have been really difficult to make the game work like it does. I'll give it a 5/5
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I stayed up till way past midnight to finish this game........I heard the dying sound so many times that i started hating it. Other than that, it's a good game.....one where you can feel good about yourself when you've finished.
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Don't Look Back is a delightful little platformer. I've played platformers with more features and better replay value, but I had to pay money for them. The features that the game actually has are all well-done. Indeed, my biggest complaint with this game is that it isn't longer; I reached the end, and I wanted to keep playing. Five stars; truly a gem among free Flash games.