What Lies Beyond ・・・ Fear in Mundane Games

I come back to Demo 1 a lot. I think about the games I was exposed to through that single demo disc, and it’s pretty incredible. There was one game, however, that really stuck with me for all the wrong reasons. But you never killed anyone. There was no visible antagonist.

Intelligent Qube is a 3D puzzle game. You take control of a faceless man, dropped in a black void with a single task. Clear the cubes heading your way. You can clear normal cubes one at a time, and advantage cubes can clear all adjacent spaces. If you clear a forbidden cube, you’ll lose a row of the stage. Oh yeah, the stage will continuously crumble if you make mistakes or if you get trampled by the cubes. Then a booming voice will sound out from the void – ‘AGAIN.’ Continue reading