Contrast Review
Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2013 11:02 am
I’ve got to hand it to Compulsion Games for setting Contrast in 1920s Paris. The City of Lights is an ideal location for a platformer that plays with shadows in such creative and interesting ways. Seeing this beautiful, stylized world from the perspective of a young girl’s imaginary friend gives it a wonderfully dreamlike quality. Contrast doesn’t always make the best use of its ideas to create consistently interesting puzzles, but when it does it’s a treat.
Amid the mixture of 3D and 2D platforming, Contrast is an emotional story of young Didi’s bumbling father attempting to find success and win back her showgirl mother. How? With risky deal with violent mobsters and a travelling illusionist. Naturally. The adults come off as a little hammy in a vaudevillian sort of way, but Didi’s performance is more human and relatable. There’s a somewhat bizarre turn at the last second that reduces the childlike wonder of it all, but getting to the end is no less charming. (That's not to suggest that the premise isn't suitably bizarre to begin with.)
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Amid the mixture of 3D and 2D platforming, Contrast is an emotional story of young Didi’s bumbling father attempting to find success and win back her showgirl mother. How? With risky deal with violent mobsters and a travelling illusionist. Naturally. The adults come off as a little hammy in a vaudevillian sort of way, but Didi’s performance is more human and relatable. There’s a somewhat bizarre turn at the last second that reduces the childlike wonder of it all, but getting to the end is no less charming. (That's not to suggest that the premise isn't suitably bizarre to begin with.)
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