Gris

incredibly pretty visuals but everything else pretty much bored me.

Thematically shallow but visually alluring, this game is someone taking the term "games are art" and applying it literally. The puzzles are one-dimensional and there's no real narrative aside from vague notions on the stages of grief, but this is a game that realizes its appeal functions on its aesthetic and it does a lot with it. The use of camera, color, and animations illustrate stunning scenery that makes this game unforgettable. But if you're looking beyond the art, you'll be disappointed.

A good way to spend a few hours but uhh, what happened in this game again?

colorful and emotional binding platformer. (2021)

Absolutely beautiful

Beautiful

This was a pretty quick refund for me. Stylistically they were going for a very cliché Journey-esque vibe that falls a little flat imo, and it's a puzzle game, so... yeah, me no like puzzles very much.

Nice artwork and for the first 1-2 act, it was a "game" too. But then it becomes bland nonsense.

Gris is a wonderful game about dealing with grief. The minimalist approach is will be offputting for many but the game touched me in exactly the way it was trying. If I had to nitpick, the game does lose it's thematic edge for quite a long chunk in the middle. I'm hoping to see more from Nomada in the future because there are very few studios who can call something of this quality a rookie effort.