Mind game films are always something that allow us to think
about certain things in life, but we mostly just leave thinking "What the
heck did I just watched?" Watching a mind game film is so much less
intense than actually playing a video game that is meant to leave you puzzled.
The difference is with video games you can go back and replay things until you
figure everything out. An amazing example of graphics, story and a sense of
'mind fuck' (excuse the language) is the game Until Dawn. Not only is the
acting amazing in this, the story provides gamer's with something that leaves
them wondering how everything came about. The story of the game is nine friends
who go up to their friend’s cabin up in the woods. The gang play a trick on one
of the twins, and she runs out as her twin sister follows her and they are
never to be seen again. A year later their brother Josh invites the gang back
to the cabin to commemorate his sisters disappearance, but when they go up
there the second time, things become extremely strange and their lives are in
danger. Within the game you have to choose what to do, and you have to tell the
truth in certain part of the game when it comes to your fears. This is where
the game becomes terrifyingly interesting, because whatever choice you pick in
the different times of the game, it affects the game completely, like a
butterfly affect. You have to find different pieces to find the truth but the
more you find the more complicated the game becomes. Most of the time you have
to choose to save your friends or keep yourself alive, but you don’t know,
especially when playing for the first time what is the right choice to make.
The game allows you to really get into a deeper part of yourself that you may
have never known. The game continues to be more of a mind fuck as it gets to
the middle of the game where the choices get harder. There is also a
psychiatrist, who is extremely creepy, and every time the game revisits him
something is different about his office. Like with mind game films, it allows
you to think outside the box, or think about your own mortality or humanity. As
the story becomes more complicated your mind begins to wonder and feel much
more uneasy. This game feels very much like a film in the way you are carried
along within the story line and you get to see the different perceptions of the
different characters.
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