#A story about my uncle ice caves simulator

An evening watching mayflies becomes frog people with very short lives. Collecting real frog eggs becomes a civilisation of frog people. The story is heavily flavoured by past, real experiences from Fred's life or house.

He also doesn't bother firing up the pad to make sure it actually reaches its destination. There is no mention of what happened to his kid-sized adventure suit, so probably it never existed. In the epilogue, the final postcard makes no mention of any of the fantastical parts of the story. The narrator doesn't even bother handing over the data that he kept on picking up throughout the whole adventure. Fred could definitely use some things to help Star Haven's technological development so this seems like an insane oversight. Fred makes no requests for materials or tools, the narrator sends no letters on through until the epilogue. Neither the narrator or Fred seem interested in trying to keep up any kind of communication, especially considering their shared experience in the other world, emotional closeness, and Fred's usual extreme reliability of sending back letters and postcards from his trips. If he set up 15 in one trip from the chasms onwards, that's quite a load. The data-collecting machines alone (25 of them!) would be amazingly bulky and it's unclear how many he would have to carry in one trip. Some of the examples beggar belief, and if any part is false, then none of it makes sense. Canoes piled high with life jackets? Enough trash to build a village, including at least six fire extinguisher cabinets? Piles upon piles of food! The story taken literally is self-reinforcing (adventure suit carrying capacity, having way too much stuff, piles of trash, needing trash disposal device) but his workroom at home does not seem very cluttered. The amount of stuff that the narrator claims Fred accumulates makes no sense. The ice caves (which to reiterate are where you find Fred) also serve as the graveyard for the inhabitants of Star Haven. It's probable that he died when he fell into a ravine. To go find Fred, you climb a huge icy mountain and eventually find him deep in a cave. The newspaper clippings indicate that Fred was a mountain climber.

The loss of Fred from your life, in any interpretation, is the reason that you're on this path. They are, in order: Denial, Isolation, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance. There are a number of words hidden in various spots throughout the game. To keep things relatively snappy, I'll just list supporting points, then finish off with important counter-arguments. The narrator, an 8-year-old, invents a nicer story to explain where he went and why he didn't ever come back. Thesis statement: Uncle Fred went off on an adventure in the real world and died.

#A story about my uncle ice caves simulator

Same guys as who made Goat Simulator but an actual serious game. I just finished it, it's on sale for two bucks for a little bit longer. It wouldn't be so bad if a) you didn't have a limited number of grapples and b) the game didn't insta-kill you the second you get too far down, no matter how close to the end you are.The game I will be talking about. Then, as soon as you trigger the story event on the other side of the room, you have to go back across, this time with the boxes falling from the ceiling. You must cross a room by grappling and jumping between floating boxes, which can already be hard in itself until you figure out the correct route.

That One Level: The Ice Caves are the most commonly criticised level, with two sections being singled out in particular:.

Oh, and did we mention that dying does NOT reset the amount of used grapples? This means that you have to go through that section in complete dark. In particular, attempting to go through the Chasms like this requires you to go through the section with the bridges placed over bottomless pits without grabbing the blue bushes. This is somewhat doable on Sanctuary and the Village, but have fun trying to do the other ones.

The achievements that require to complete the levels with the bare minimum of used grapples.