Simply stunning, those who have any badmouthing to say regarding the artistic direction that the developers took when making the game, can't recognize the visual aesthetics that revolve around when composing something of this stature. What seems to be an homage to the realm of 16-bit pixelated eccentricity that was long endured by those who were a part of the 80's and 90's, this takes that and, representationally, revamps it to something more vivid that you'd have to expect a current-gen console to accomplish. Games like 3D Dot Game Heroes, Braid, and Cave Story continue to push the envelope by reminding everyone that long forgotten "linear" modes and styles of playing can be given a breath of fresh air and can be as fun as any "new" game out, if not more fun.

My chief concern is hoping that the game doesn't become too environment-driven and that there is an emphasis on more than one enemy, aside from that I applaud the developers on this and hope they achieve more recognition.

You know what's wrong you people?

You lack IMAGINATION!
This is what happens when we get spoiled on graphics to the point where your mind has nothing left to do. This game harkens back to a time where the emphasis was truly placed on story, gameplay, and the experience. Finally, a game that will take you somewhere else. And, because you are not gawking at all that roto-scoped, anti-aliased, raytraced, 3D polygonal goodness, you are focus is squarely where it belongs.

Kudos to the developers of this fine effort!

All I was doing was outlining the reasons I think this game will not be particularly successful. I wasn't casting random aspersions on how good or otherwise this game is, but I was forcibly reminded of a review a while ago of a game called Passage, which was also described as an experience. This was quite poorly received, and though I am aware this is very different as a game, I can't help but think it is going to attract the same sorts of buyers.

It's just my opinion anyway, it's not necessarily going to sell badly. And I'm sure all the glowing reports toucharcade is giving it will help publicise and build some hype and it before its release. I'm just warning people that there's a possibility that it won't be the iphone's answer to Half-Life.

I was thinking about how I killed the creature -- feeling bad about it -- for the rest of the afternoon and kept bringing it up to Arn and Eli. That's kind of amazing, to me.

Maybe you don't want to kill the creature, either. That's ok here...

The reason pixel art games are different is that they are rarely - if ever - successful. This is because a) there isn't as much detail, so it is harder to impress things on the gamer; and b) many consumers on the app store are from a younger generation and when they see a game with these graphics think "this must be old, which means it is must be bad."

I never wrote this game off. The first thing I said was "this looks interesting", so obviously I will look out for more details on the future. I have never played Half-Life so I can't really judge on the tram ride comparison, but I think it unlikely that after this first section the game bursts into an all-action FPS, or something massively spectacular like that. Obviously by comparing it to Half-Life the developer was hoping to gather some feverish anticipation in the community, and it has clearly worked, but I can't help but think there will be a fair few disappointed people when this comes out.