Frustration, tedium, anger, reflection, repeat. What you know, what you know, memory, pain, what you know, sleep, repeat. Right, right, round, round, back, right, right, get lost, get found, carve, carve, sleep, repeat. Repeat, repeat, repeat, recovery, repeat, repeat, explore, breath, frustration, anger, beauty, deepness, sadness, pain, tedium, repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat, pain, tedium, cry, repeat. Keep going, you'll get there, tedium, patience, confusion, reluctance, is it worth it, why keep going? Tedium, frustration, beauty, repeat.

These are the emotions one will feel while playing through the interactive cartoon PINE: A Story of Loss, a piece of art that clearly should win if anything a BAFTA (the only gaming award I know of that recognizes work like this as games can't be nominated for film awards... yet).

I have only experienced the loss of a parent and a friend, but never the pain of what it must be like to lose a partner or lover. I am sure this game must give you some of those feels. I have only known them through what others have told me and much of PINE feels accurate. So accurate at times I turned the game off, just not wanting those feelings anymore. I put in 3.8 hours supposedly. I feel like it was less and yet so much more, which I totally feel what the developers intention was.

The work here from Tom Booth and the team at Made Up Games truly deserves to be experienced. No matter what you walk away from feeling during your gameplay. On a personal note my life went drastic places during the 4 hours over a variety of days playing through. It'll stay with me and change as life changes, as an experience like this should. The art and music may bring me back someday, the gameplay itself may keep me away, but I will have always been grateful to have known it then to have not known it all.

Frustration, tedium, anger, reflection, repeat. What you know, what you know, memory, pain, what you know, sleep, repeat. Right, right, round, round, back, right, right, get lost, get found, carve, carve, sleep, repeat. Repeat, repeat, repeat, recovery, repeat, repeat, explore, breath, frustration, anger, beauty, deepness, sadness, pain, tedium, repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat, pain, tedium, cry, repeat. Keep going, you'll get there, tedium, patience, confusion, reluctance, is it worth it, why keep going? Tedium, frustration, beauty, repeat. These are the emotions one will feel while playing through the interactive cartoon PINE: A Story of Loss, a piece of art that clearly should win if anything a BAFTA (the only gaming award I know of that recognizes work like this as games can't be nominated for film awards... yet). I have only experienced the loss of a parent and a friend, but never the pain of what it must be like to lose a partner or lover. I am sure this game must give you some of those feels. I have only known them through what others have told me and much of PINE feels accurate. So accurate at times I turned the game off, just not wanting those feelings anymore. I put in 3.8 hours supposedly. I feel like it was less and yet so much more, which I totally feel what the developers intention was. The work here from Tom Booth and the team at Made Up Games truly deserves to be experienced. No matter what you walk away from feeling during your gameplay. On a personal note my life went drastic places during the 4 hours over a variety of days playing through. It'll stay with me and change as life changes, as an experience like this should. The art and music may bring me back someday, the gameplay itself may keep me away, but I will have always been grateful to have known it then to have not known it all.