The Norwood Suite

luv surreal stuff

The Norwood Suíte é uma sequência espiritual e direta de Off-Peak, o primeiro jogo gratuito do desenvolvedor Cosmo D, mas que pode ser jogado de forma individual sem problemas. Aqui ele mantém sua identidade visual completamente única (meio montagem dadaísta/galeria de arte virtual), sua trilha sonora contagiante de eletro jazz e seu foco em exploração, mas dessa vez incorporando mecânicas de jogos de aventura que eu achei que resultaram em uma experiência mais focada e satisfatória de se explorar. O hotel aqui é grande e surpreendentemente denso, e a atmosfera e a construção de mundo do jogo são excelentes. Pra quem quer uma experiência surreal e curta com uma otima trilha sonora, recomendo muito.

Extremely interesting game. Entertaining.

---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☑ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☑ Old Fashioned ☐ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☑ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☑ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☑ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☑ Short ☐ Average ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☐ Never heard of ☑ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☑ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10

I'm working through Cosmo D's games now, after hearing all the high praise for them for years, and while they're novel to a degree, I just don't think they're really *that* good. The music is great, and the neon environments are cool, but the story for The Norwood Suite (I've only played this and Off-Peak so far) is pretty contrived and not compellingly told. The characters you encounter are pretty stock "videogamey" characters, mainly serving to give you fetch quests - seeing all of the reviews going on and on about the excellent writing really makes me feel like I missed something. I appreciate that the developer is trying to do something different, and it isn't bad per se, but the critical fawning over a pretty basic narrative seems bizarre.

Wow. this was such a cool game. The visuals are just insane and the atmosphere is amazing. A bit creepy and very creative. Every new area was gorgeous and inventive. Loved this.

Surrealismus hat oft etwas Willkürliches an sich. Und surreale Ästhetik ist nicht selten nur das schrille Gewand völliger Bedeutungslosigkeit. Das ist hier ganz und gar nicht der Fall. Hier dreht sich zwar alles um Musik und wird von ihr getragen, aber jedes mitgehörte Gespräch spannt auch einen eigenen Erzählstrang auf, der nur beiläufig in den Hauptstrang der Geschichte eingewoben ist. Das macht die Welt sehr lebendig und sorgt für die nötige Lust an der Zerstreuung, die uns die Welt erkunden lässt, ohne dass wir groß darüber nachdenken müssen, was als nächstes zu tun ist. Trotzdem sollten wir nicht zu verhuscht erkunden. Es lohnt sich genau hinzuhören und hinzusehen. Übrigens, ich wünschte meine Träume hätten auch so einen genialen Soundtrack!

Cosmo D has an incredible gift for creating music-based surreal experiences and it really started to shine in this, The Norwood Suite. The music is unique, and there's so much of it. The visuals are unique, odd, with incredible artwork choices and the fact that all the "dialogue" is musical instruments being played is such a wonderful flavor. If you like surreal games that are love letters to music first, give this a try.

Music is phenomenal, world design and colors are equally great. I wish this game were more popular so I could discuss more with others. Short but a blast. Note: I DID run into a glitch where the esc menu would not pop up and I had to force close the game early on, which started me back at the beginning. Once I restarted, no more issues.

Une expérience assez indescriptible mais très prenante. La musique est partout et nous met vraiment dans l'ambiance de façon efficace. Je recommande, notamment pour ceux qui ont déjà fait un jeu du même dev.