Kylät

By: Derek Yu

On: September 9th, 2007

Sampe’s Kylät is the winner of Game Maker Games’s Three Word Contest, where entrants were asked to make a game based around the words “break,” “deep,” and “wing.”

In terms of its visual and narrative styles, Kylät follows proudly in the footsteps of popular Game Maker platformers like Seiklus, flapflapflap, and the games of Darthlupi. It definitely falls short of those classics, however. For one thing, there’s almost no pacing – you’ll go from chatting up aliens (who speak… very… slowly) to being dropped into the middle of a chaotic war zone where it’s not obvious what’s hurting you and what’s not, or whether you’re doing any damage to your enemies. The whole thing feels disjointed and incomplete.

The story is interesting (if somewhat stilted). But I can’t say I recommend seeing it through, because the ending is totally lackluster and feels like a rush to meet competition deadlines.

(Source: Soldat Movies)