30 Birds made me reflect on video games as of late. When wading through the waves of high-quality, visually stunning games that have come out over the last few years, it can be easy to take for granted the fact that we live in a golden age of video games. Small teams from around the world can breathe life into weird ideas in experimental ways with tools that can now keep up with our loftiest dreams.
This Thanksgiving, I sacrifice my turkey to 30 Birds, a wild menagerie of artistic styles, literary influences, gameplay mechanics, and pure imagination, all brought to life in what feels like a living gouache painting. Is it perfect? Nope, but I did get lost in 30 Birds‘ beautifully eclectic world and was hopelessly charmed by its peculiar story.
In 30 Birds players don the questionably fashionable cape of Zig, a young woman journeying to Lantern City to witness the awakening of Simurgh, a bird goddess. However, the festival of awakening takes a dark turn when Simurgh is... Read more