Pillars

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You know, I enjoy playing free, weird games where I can write weird reviews but for this game, I will make it quick. The title of the game was simple enough to peak my interest. I thought: Pillars…haha, architecture… . So I gave it a try. It is a nice platformer with nice looping music, a very nice background and overall, a nice atmosphere. All in all, it is a nice game which is worth a try. …OR IS IT??? No doubt that the game is fun and all but what about the story? Our character, only be seen in the last level, consists of many polygons and can yeet himself in the air by using a wand. BUT HOW can we yeet all of our body into outer space if our limbs and head are separated? If we can levitate all along, why don’t we simply fly on top of those bizarre towers. By the way, why are they here and why are they levitating? Are we also a tower just waiting to be climbed, or are we perhaps a wand ourselves, used by geometry for its mischief acts? Obviously, maths is the root of all evil but what about the red guy in the end? I shall tell you what I found out in this story driven realm, transmitted to us mere mortals through math itself. We play as geometry man whom I shall call Leonidas. Leonidas, CHOSEN by higher beings who most likely build Leonidas and the towers, is sent on a quest to travers the towers in search of the legendary light trampoline. Provided with an ancient flying stick, we make our way to the last realm. It is the place where the red polygons and the white ones clash for power over the whole geometry. But the red territory was a wasteland, a husk of its former self. Leonidas realized that his odyssey led to the downfall of algebra and so he took his live with the giant white frisbee. Man…how did we even end up here…