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Banshees of Inisherin: The Game
- n1b0m 4y agoIf punching a policeman is a sin, we may as well just pack up and go home.
- laluneodyssee 4y agoThe key detection is not great. Fun idea though
- dmix 4y agoYou also lose when the other person is quite far away. Not as intuitive as I'd like.
- k2enemy 4y agoI found it incredibly hard to turn when I wanted to. Not sure if it is key detection or if I needed to have more precise timing.
- paxys 4y agoKeep the key pressed a few seconds before the turn.
- johtso 4y agohold down the key rather than mashing
- cojo 4y agoHave to second this - a fantastic idea unfortunately marred by very poor control responsiveness. Sibling comments are correct, on review, that it seems you can work around it by holding down in advance. Unfortunately by the time I verified that I had run out of time since I spent most of what I had trying to make it work on my own before returning to the thread to offer this feedback. Personally, I think the idea is good enough that I will try to return on desktop later when I have time… but for the devs - if you read this - you could really enable a lot more people to get a lot further in this presumably great creative experience if you made the controls respond better on mobile.
- zulban 4y agoIt doesn't move like pacman, where it saves your keystroke momentarily. Instead you need to hold the key down until you reach a point where you can turn.
- ftxbro 4y agoSounds like a player skill issue k2enemy
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- softfalcon 4y agoIt looks like you have to hold the direction for a bit prior to turning. Pretty bad UX in my opinion. Especially since this makes it nigh unplayable on mobile as you fat thumb the tiny D-pad trying to hold the right direction down. I tried it on keyboard and it's a bit more playable, but frustrating for players like myself who more than have the dexterity to press exactly when I want to. A+ for humour, artistic style, and concept... D for play-ability.
- BugsJustFindMe 4y agoThere's no up button on iOS. Not sure how to play without it.
- mrspeaker 4y agoNot sure why you'd turn this into a game (it's awesome though!), but for anyone who hasn't seen the movie - I'd recommend it. It really has stuck with me long after I saw it. Starts out with "Father Ted" vibes, but end up going... in other directions.
- sph 4y agoBased on a recent "black comedy" movie: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11813216/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11813216/ Which is one of the weirdest and heaviest hitting films I've seen recently, and while there is some comedy, it is not a funny movie.
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- messe 4y agoUmm... the two terms are synonymous to me. What distinction are you drawing?
- craftyguy98 4y ago[flagged]
- esrauch 4y agoThere's another genre also commonly called Black Comedy where Black is African American not Dark. To be fair, it is genuinely confusing to have that genre name collision.
- messe 4y ago> There's another genre also commonly called Black Comedy where Black is African American not Dark. Ah, well, that would explain it. I'm not American. I have never before now heard the term "black comedy" refer to comedy solely by African Americans.
- itisit 4y agoThat’s not true in colloquial American English. Movies like “Friday” or “Madea Goes to Jail” are just referred to as “Comedy”.
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- wyldfire 4y ago"Banshees" was an interesting but puzzling film. I enjoyed it but I didn't think it was quite as approachable as McDonaghs other films. I suppose it's supposed to be an allegory to the futility of the Irish Civil War? If we the audience can't make a connection to something like that it feels a bit too abstract. I didn't make it far into the game, but it is a neat project.
- voltaireodactyl 4y agoI’ve seen a lot of people connecting it to the Irish Civil War, but I think there’s a lot in there about the inherent selfishness/social-push-pull of creation (of art, specifically).
- sdfgidfnhio 4y agoI don't think there's any allegory at all. The Civil War is a bleak backdrop, a reminder of brotherhood turned to hatred and the impending threat of death and so forth, but it's not much more than that. It's connected to the story by aesthetics and by mood rather than by plot or by meaning.
- snozolli 4y agoI found this video extremely helpful in explaining the civil war metaphor: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=74KPJ--cb7Q https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=74KPJ--cb7Q
- mjklin 4y agoIt’s an allegory for something, but I can’t quite put my finger on it…
- PaulDavisThe1st 4y agoI'd have to hand it to you, that's a good one.
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- drusepth 4y agoLove the art style, but I think you might need some sort of intro for the controls. Neither WASD nor arrow keys seem to have any effect, and the player seems to make random turns regardless of what key I have pressed, or whether I have any key pressed at all.
- dmix 4y agoSounds like your keyboard? Or you have some browser extension like Vimium
- drusepth 4y agoThe issue was apparently that I didn't realize the player started in the top-left of the screen. I thought I was meant to control the character that starts in the center of the screen and starts moving immediately (like pac-man). Controls are still a bit clunky (slow to respond), but do work.
- geuis 4y agoGreat concept. Has anyone else finished the film? I'm a bit past the thump on the door and not sure if I want to finish the movie if things keep going that way.
- maroonblazer 4y agoIt's a wonderful meditation on friendship. A couple shots showing the aftermath of his threat carried out, but they're brief. Highly recommend.
- vharuck 4y agoThings keep going that way. First movie I saw from that director, so I didn't expect he'd actually lead the film down that path so quickly and determinedly. But if you don't like the start of that path, you probably won't like the middle or end.
- SideburnsOfDoom 4y agoTry "In Bruges". Same director and 2 lead actors. A very different setting and premise. No less dark.
- foogazi 4y agoI stopped watching halfway but forced myself to finish watching it the next day and wasted another hour of my life
- BlamSthzusa 4y agoWhere is the subtext of the Irish Civil War?! Worst Movie-to-Game adaptation since Spy Hunter: Nowhere to Run (2006).
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- fumblebee 4y ago> I do worry sometimes I might just be entertaining myself while staving off the inevitable. Pretty certain that Colm Doherty was not referring to this game when he said this, but somehow it seems applicable. Brilliant job!
- migf 4y agolmao what is wrong with you Thank you.
- blairbeckwith 4y agoBrilliant - no notes. Makes me wish for more unconventional film-game adaptations.
- givemeethekeys 4y agoGreat game. Playing it for five minutes saved me from watching the movie.
- billiam 4y agoAll in all, a pretty good digital adaptation. The movie was shear joy to watch.
- mattgruskin 4y agoReminds me of another unexpected video game adaptation https://greatgatsbygame.com/ https://greatgatsbygame.com/
- 29athrowaway 4y agoIt's pacman with old men
- mgaunard 4y agoTo me the film just made the Irish look like dumb and uncivilized drunkards.
- philosopher1234 4y agoSounds like a bit of projection so
- prepend 4y agoYes, and? I think that was part of the point. I don’t think that’s the totality of describing Irish, but as someone that has a bit of Irish heritage and interactions with Irish it’s a common characteristic. It’s a remote island right, and I think the history makes the more recent transformation more impressive and interesting.
- mgaunard 4y agoReinforcing negative stereotypes is not beneficial to the Irish minority in England.
- bunabhucan 4y agoI think celebrating independence from eight centuries of British rule by having a civil war did that for us.
- d--b 4y agoThis game is unplayable on iphone
- atum47 4y agoI appreciate that is a full game with nice graphics. I found the controls a bit unresponsive. Had to press multiple times in order to turn a corner.
- spywaregorilla 4y agoI'd like to see the end but I cannot get past level 6. I'd enjoy a spoiler if anyone has it. I enjoyed the film. There was this nagging feeling the whole time that there was supposed to be some sort of metaphor for the conflict in Ireland but I knew nothing about it, so it felt like I was missing something. I don't know that I really understood what it was trying to say either way. I liked 'In Bruges' a lot more personally.
- lucideer 4y ago> but I knew nothing about it You're probably better off not knowing - any attempts at serious commentary on that conflict by the film didn't land well with anyone more informed. It's an enjoyable, likeable film, but cultural or political insights aren't McDonagh's strong points. I also really liked Three Billboards, though I heard it received similar criticisms for its clumsy portrayal of US political themes (which I'm more distant from).
- prepend 4y agoAs a USian, I thought that Three Billboards was nuanced and not clumsy at all. Having grown up with racism everywhere, I find it interesting that there’s not much art that shows the complexity of racism where it isn’t nazi-esque monsterism of pure evil, but also banal and pervasive. The portrayal of the super racist sheriff who does some good reminds me of a horrible family member who comes through when there’s a death. Or a broken clock being right twice a day. I didn’t read any criticisms of the film that seemed serious to me. I didn’t seek out too many reviews but probably read a dozen that boiled down to “portrayed racists in positive light” and that just seemed to not understand the film much at all. But there may be more detailed and nuanced criticism that I haven’t seen.
- lucideer 4y ago> "portrayed racists in positive light" The specific critique I recall being levelled at it in this context was more "racist has apparent redemption arc by helping white people, despite never addressing/showing remorse for past acts of racism", which doesn't seem as simplistic. Personally I didn't come away feeling the character was redeemed anyway, so if that was intended as a redemption arc I missed it. But mostly I just didn't treat it as serious political commentary & just enjoyed the witty writing & delivery.
- dreamcompiler 4y agoI rarely watch a movie that is so unpleasant that I wish I'd never seen it, but this one falls into that category. It is a dark exploration of isolated people suffering from profound mental illness. It is not even remotely similar to "In Bruges." But it is beautifully photographed.
- stefantalpalaru 4y ago[dead]
- melesian 4y agoImagine describing a metaphor for the American civil war as being about mental illness. No connection at all with the common antecedent: British imperialism; slavery in America's case and a colonial legacy of partition imposed at gun point in Ireland's.
- grujicd 4y agoEverybody here talks about a movie (which is briliant from my perspective), or controls (which could be better), but no one asks WHY is this game made? It doesn't make much sense it was created as a marketing device for a movie, it's not that kind of movie. However, considering names and graphics it looks totally as authorized work. My guess is it's a marketing device for an agency, which worked with a movie crew in some capacity and was granted a permission to use these assets for a bit of self-promotion.
- tyingq 4y agoCogs and Marvel made a blog post about it: https://www.cogsandmarvel.com/news/cogs-marvel-release-banshees-the-game-an-homage-to-the-multi-oscar-nominated-film https://www.cogsandmarvel.com/news/cogs-marvel-release-bansh...
- bookaway 4y agoWhatever the reason this should be a thing. They should do Triangle of Sadness next.