{"id":22862,"date":"2023-01-18T00:01:45","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T00:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=22862"},"modified":"2023-01-18T00:17:41","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T00:17:41","slug":"goodbye-world-switch-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/18\/goodbye-world-switch-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye World (Switch, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I play and review a lot of indie games.\u00a0 Before the pandemic, I would go to shows like PAX and E3 and preview a lot of them, but sometimes it would take years before I would actually get a full release date copy to review.\u00a0 I\u2019ve always wondered what those developers did during that time.\u00a0 How did they get paid?\u00a0 Did they have to work on other things to get by?\u00a0 Why did it take so long to make that game?\u00a0 If you\u2019ve wondered about those questions, too, then maybe Goodbye World is for you.\u00a0 In it, you\u2019ll follow the struggles of two just-out-of-college young ladies as they struggle to make an indie game.\u00a0 And in between story sections, you\u2019ll get to try a snippet of the game they’re working on, a retro black and white handheld platform puzzler.\u00a0 Goodbye World is available on Switch and PC, but reviewed on Switch here.<\/p>\n

The game has 13 chapters, and at the beginning of each one you\u2019ll play a level of the game.\u00a0 It\u2019s a 2-D puzzle platformer called \u201cBlocks\u201d where you can run and jump, and break nearby blocks with a button.\u00a0 These cracked blocks can be placed elsewhere in the level to give you a stepping stone to reach higher areas and such.\u00a0 And you can also break placed blocks to use them elsewhere.\u00a0 Your goal is to find a key in the short levels and then reach a lock, but watch out for enemies and spikes.\u00a0 If you get hit, you\u2019ll lose a life, and lose all three and it\u2019s Game Over.\u00a0 Whether you complete the level or get a Game Over, after that you\u2019ll view one of the story scenes.<\/p>\n

The story follows two young ladies trying to make an indie game, dealing with part time jobs and each others\u2019 quirks and difficulties.\u00a0 It\u2019s all just text with graphics with hardly any interactivity.\u00a0 Only at the very end do you get to move one of the characters around for a bit.\u00a0 I wish you could do that through the whole game, just to give a little bit of control to the player.\u00a0 I honestly wish they would\u2019ve ditched the story part and just focused on the actual game.\u00a0 Maybe included a live video with the actual programmers and artists who helped make it, and their real life struggles.\u00a0 After you finish all the chapters, you CAN play the whole retro game on its own at least.\u00a0 I only wish there was a separate jump button in it because I hate pressing up to jump.\u00a0 The whole thing can be beaten in about an hour, so it\u2019s not a very fulfilling experience overall for the price.<\/p>\n

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Goodbye World is rated E for Everyone with ESRB descriptors of Mild Language and Mild Fantasy Violence.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t notice any bad language, but in the handheld game your little critter can hit enemies and spikes, but just falls down and looks sad when defeated.\u00a0 In the last of the story sections, it is implied that one of the programmers committed suicide, and even though at the end they explain they really didn\u2019t do that, it\u2019s still pretty heady stuff.\u00a0 Because of that and the high level of reading required, this game is best for older players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I play and review a lot of indie games.\u00a0 Before the pandemic, I would go to shows like PAX and E3 and preview a lot of them, but sometimes it would take years before I would actually get a full release date copy to review.\u00a0 I\u2019ve always wondered what those developers did during that time.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":22853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22862"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23051,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22862\/revisions\/23051"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}