Addendum (because HN won't allow me to edit the parent any more): I just finished playing through Thomas Was Alone. My opinion is that the game is a mediocre p

Addendum (because HN won't allow me to edit the parent any more): I just finished playing through Thomas Was Alone. My opinion is that the game is a mediocre platformer with only a few new mechanics and scores of older, well-trodden ones, amateurish level design, lots of boring repetition, poor conveyance in parts, and lots of little flaws that make it (again, to me) not much fun at all to play. Its only saving graces are the wonderful narration (done by this exciting British guy named Danny Wallace), and the excellent use of color. If you don't enjoy the first 15 minutes, your experience probably won't improve in the many hours to come (on a side note, I feel the game is about 1.5x as long as it should be. there was a lot of "sheesh -- when will this set of levels end?" in my playthrough). You're better off just listening to all the narration (which is great, and really adds a lot of pathos to moving rectangles around a screen). I should emphasize that I don't think Thomas Was Alone is a bad game. It tries to do a lot of things (probably too many) at once and does many of them right. The ones it flubs up, though, cause the game to be tedious and unfocused and frustrating in enough places that, for me, it ceases to be fun to play. Give it a try -- you may enjoy it! I didn't. (Sorry if my complaints here are vague. There's a lot I want to say because I just finished playing, but it's late, and I'm trying to keep this to a "should I play it?" kind of blurb. If it would help someone to know exactly what I think is wrong with the game, I could make a longer thing or a video or something. )