Rune Hunt

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Merry Christmas.

No, seriously, I'm not playing some Christmas themed game that I know is going to be crap because, seriously, Christmas Mythos is crap, and at best a developer can only do some clone of a past game skinned with Santa shit.

So, here's a game that has shit that resembles an ice cave.  So, awesome I guess.  As you will see, it's a Christmas present about as passive agressive as End of Time but it will do.

Anyways, In Rune Hunt, you play the role of a child, I little boy I assume, but its kinda hard to tell.



Pictured: you

You are sent into a cave by your asshole Dad to be shown something awesome (and help him with his scientific findings) when... tradgedy strikes!  Strange creatures whom fear the light show up and great evil happens!

Pictured: great evil

So, you spend the remainder of the game gathering runes

... and avoiding the vash de narada.

So clearly this game has that Limbo thing going where you are a small child, alone, in a dark place where everything is trying to kill you, and you lose your innocences at some point.  However, there is more than that, which I find interesting.

There was a shitload of commentary in this game about the nature of death in video games.

Lets start with the savepoint.

During the game, if you get eaten by the vash de narada you get teleported back either to that point or to the portals at the start of every... level I guess.

Pictured: oh nom nom nom

The morning after

Every time your character makes a quip about how he he had died and came back to life, and that it was a nightmarish experience.  Here's the best part: you can revisit your corpse, wherethen your character quips about it being him and how he died that time, and how horrible it is that he can't escape through death.

The game has a fair challenge curve, and it is quite engrossing.  Its creeping and I have jumped out of my skin a couple of times because I thought I could walk that close to the shadows without the vash de narada eating me, or in later levels with a few other villian types.  Course, its a good thing there are glowing butterflies, rocks, shrooms, and bulbs off plants to help you along the way.

Overall this game is so much fun and it is really worth ones time to play it.  Mind you, it isn't really related to Yuletide, but seriously, this game is worth playing to the end.

Merry Fucking Christmas.