five days of awesomeness

Oh, dear gods, I can't resist the temptation. I'm going to review stuff in a drastically different order than the order I saw/played such review items in. But worry not, for I shall review the zetta awesomeness that is 5 Days a Stranger.

Because 5 Days a Stanger was made by Ben Yahtzee Croshaw, one of the more superior human beings on this Earth and also the creator of Art of Theft, which I will review soon since I played it before 5 Days a Stranger, I had already convinced myself that this would be a good game. However, the works of Yahtzee I had previously seen leaned more toward humor than horror, so that was a small concern of mine. I, at the very least, knew that Trilby was a surprisingly zetta compelling character from playing Art of Theft. This remains true in 5 Days a Stranger, despite Trilby being taken out of his area of expertise (theft). The supporting characters aren't too shabby, either. You'll have a different attitude toward each of them, which gives any developer extra points in my book.

While humor is not absent from the game (try looking at the doors a bunch of times. Pure comedic genius), the focus is on horror. And boy, does Yahtzee do a good job. Normally, I turn the lights off when I'm working on the computer. I have an illuminated screen; I'll save the energy. But nope. Not now. I'm not as shaken as when I saw Disturbia, but hey, it's still pretty zetta scary.

The puzzles themselves can be a bit frustrating ast times, even with the walkthrough from Yahtzee himself. However, they do seem to make sense once you know the solution. But, as Yahtzee said in his own review of The Adventures of Zakk and Wiki... Well, they weren't horrible puzzles, and the ones I could solve were fun on their own, but I still think they could have been fleshed out better.

The commentary and intervew are worth the five dollars (although five dollars isn't much anyways), so you definitely shouldn't pass them up. Although I'm willing to donate five dollars to Yahtzee anyways, but what the hey.

Overall? Well, as you'll see in my Rent review (meant for yesterday, I felt rather lazy, though), I'm done with this whole score thing. But, just for nostalgia's sake, Buy this game! Incompletes will be destroyed! It is so zetta factoring awesome you really just need to see it for yourself. God, I'm definitely going to have to play Yahtzee's other horror games now.