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Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 0.3 hrs on record
Posted: 18 Feb, 2014 @ 4:34am

The Plan is over in literally 6 minutes, unless you spend a worrying amount of time admiring the fly on the menu screen. No, no, not the monitor screen, the menu. To say any more would rather ruin The Plan, so go and download it and play it. It's free, it's small, and it's quick.

If the tension is too much for you, then this is a video game about being a fly. Now you might think that being a fly is rather boring. I mean, all they do is sit around, clean their eyes in a disturbing manner, and occasionally buzz around as though they're drunk. Their other purpose in life is to sit on the windscreen directly in your line of vision while you're driving, regardless of how much space there is in the rest of the vehicle. Flies are mean. Sadly you don't get to do any of that in The Plan. You do, however, get to fly. Like a fly. The fly's flight model is rather basic. It flies, it goes up, left and right, and it buzzes convincingly if you run into something. Your fly is rather too well-controlled for my liking, not a single blunder into a nearby window to be seen. Still, it's functional. As you fly, as a fly, you'll find a few minor distractions to prevent you from flying upwards, but upwards you must go. It ends, very quickly, although it becomes strangely beautiful just before it does. Grieg has that effect. I've probably said way too much about it by now, but I did warn you in the first paragraph. Do I recommend it? Not if you hate flies, or have a bizarre aversion to experimental art, but everyone else should give it a shot.
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