The Way
SCORE: 60
I appreciate Playway sending Family Friendly Gaming a digital
download code for The Way on the Xbox One. This downloadable only puzzle
video game is also available on the Personal Computer (PC). The Way is
like Another World. The Way also kind of looks like it. What do I mean
by that? The Way has the retro graphical style to it. I can tell this
game borrowed from Another World in a lot of ways.
It is very easy to die in The Way. Speaking of death, this game deals
with it a lot. A man digs up his buried dead wife. He then steals a
spaceship from his company, and destroys quite a bit of property to take
his wife to an alien world. Why does he do this? Because he believes the
key to eternal life is found in an ancient alien culture on this alien
planet. I guess he did not read the Bible. For if he did he would have
found a much easier path to eternal life.
Expect to solve puzzles in The Way. Also expect to press the button 'X'
a whole while playing The Way. What does the button 'X' do for us? Does
it mark the spot to pirate treasure? The button 'X' repawns us after we
die. I died a lot of in The Way. I did more often than I solved puzzles.
I found all kinds of ways to die in The Way. Which to me felt like a
much better ending.
The puzzles in The Way get very complex and deep. I had to write down
notes to get all of the possible codes to get authorization to get the
spaceship out of the underground building complex it was in. There is
violence in The Way as well. We destroy quite a few creatures and robots
in The Way. How do we do this? All thanks to our handy dandy laser
pistol. That we hacked into to steal.
The music in The Way is generally nice to listen to. It sets the mood
for the macabre and morbid content. You decide what path you want to
take at the end of The Way. Expect to spend some hours solving the
puzzles in The Way. The Way is an 881 meg download so it is not as large
as many modern games that do not reach into the physical realm. It can
be easy to get stuck in parts of The Way as well.
Fans of games like Another World could definitely get into The Way. The
puzzles are clever in The Way. I had to use my grey matter to get past
some of them. Other parts of The Way require some speed and direction. I
am not a fan of how the shooting angles work in The Way (with the right
stick to aim, and the right trigger to shoot). I did eventually adapt to
them though. When I first heard the name of this game I thought it would
be about early Christians. Sadly I was let down.
- Sam
Graphics: 55%
Sounds: 70%
Replay/Extras: 60%
Gameplay: 60%
Family Friendly Factor: 55%
System:
PC/Xbox One(tested)
Publisher: Playway
Developer: Puzzling Dream
Rating: ‘T’ - THIRTEEN and OLDER ONLY
{Violence, Blood}
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