Dienstag, 21. Juli 2020

Kafka's Metamorphosis makes a great whimsical platformer

A somewhat humanoid bug sits casually in front of the camera, hands in its lap. It says "If I telly ou, I won't have a purpose anymore. And I do want to have a purpose."

If you’d told me before today that it’s possible to make an upbeat and friendly 3D platformer based on the works of Franz Kafka without undermining the nature of either, I would have found it hard to believe. And yet here we are.

I’ll confess that it’s been a long while since I’ve read The Metamorphosis, and I never had particularly strong feelings about it (save for borrowing a friend’s: “Why apples? If I was after a giant beetle I’d throw… flaming hot knives”). But it’s clear that Ovid Works love Kafka’s books, and their upcoming Metamorphosis is both a solid game and a creative remix of his ideas.

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