Gravity Bone and Thirty Flights of Loving

Game Title: Gravity Bone and Thirty Flights of Loving

Platform(s): PC

Stars (out of 5): 4

Content issues: There is no profane language, sex, or nudity in this game, but there is blood as well as guns and shooting. There is also consumption of alcohol.

Brief Summary: Gravity Bone and Thirty Flights of Loving are actually two separate games, but they are bundled together. Gravity Bone is supposedly the first game and Thirty Flights of Loving is the sequel. Gravity Bone is a game in which you star as Citizen Abel and you are essentially a man for hire. There are only two missions, neither of which involves shooting. Thirty Flights of Loving is different. This time you are not given any missions. You simply walk through the game, and then it ends. Although there are things that you can do and you are free to walk around, the game is essentially on rails, because none of your decisions can affect the outcome of the game in any way.

Like: The art-style is interesting and new. All of the characters in the game have huge square heads.

The world is fun to move around in and the missions in Gravity Bone are entertaining.

Dislike: Both games are extremely linear and extremely short. You can beat both of them within 30 minutes (tops). Gravity Bone also has a part where you have to make a ridiculous jump that doesn't seem possible, but just barely is.Thirty Flights of Loving could have removed the ability for the player to walk around and pick things up and just played as a movie and it would have barely changed anything, because all of the decisions that you make are on rails. As some have said, both of these games should probably have been free due to how short and simple they are. Finally, they are supposed to be short stories. Gravity Bone makes some sense, but Thirty Flights of Loving was totally lost on me.

Replayability: Because of the linearity of the games, I would say that replayability is extremely low. The only reason I would replay these games would be to see the art style again for inspiration or to try to figure out what the story is really about in Thirty Flights of Loving, which I am unlikely to do.

This was the best part of the game. Running on top of a table, breaking glasses and smashing food as you go.