Maize (2016)
You get to explore this farm that has a huge corn field. Very quickly you to start notice things aren't what they seem. You get to run into corn people. Literately corn that's humanoid that can talk. I swear I'm not high or anything it's in the game!!! You get to build a robot bear named Vladdy to help you on the way.
This bear loves calling anything stupid all the time. You will find a lot of written sticky notes. Mostly two characters that had a major role what happened. I will say this is a truly beautiful looking game. There's plenty of jokes especially towards the end. It's mostly a point & click adventure game.
You technically have one enemy in the entire game. There's a notable learning curve. Some key items aren't used how you might be expecting them to. In fact, you mostly held onto an English muffin almost the entire game. I promise you yes there's is an actual reason. You get to explore the corn fields as well as this facility.
If you haven't figure it out by now. This facility is hidden within a corn field. Maybe next time you're about to eat. Just know you bite into another person. There actually is a similar condition that affects humans. Later revealed in the game to transform humans into scarecrows. Just when you thought things couldn't get stranger they do.
You actually are one of these scarecrow the entire time. I loved how the game suddenly reveals it to you. Prior you can't see anything of your character at all. Which made that quite an effective twist. Mostly you are looking for key items. Then figuring out how to use em. Some of which must be used together to get through areas.
A huge hint is don't take this game seriously I mean at all. You are mostly around corn people as well as Vladdy. You should expect to get confuse as well as often lost on the way. I sure was mostly trying to avoid guides online. Some stuff you wouldn't even consider. Like after Vladdy gets ambushed.
I didn't realize a particular coin was literately at the vent I sent him in. You do get to collect a lot of stuff to reveal more of what happened. Some of those so happens to be rocks lol. Late into the game you reveal only two times you can fail at. The first of these was a huge surprise to me. You get to dance an mini game for a couple minutes.
Easily more balanced than a particular boss fight in Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse. Which ended up being my favorite part in the entire game. Usually I'm not a fan of these mini games or rhythm games for that matter. Somehow I ended up having a lot of fun with this. The other part you can fail actually involves that English muffin.
Cornpacabra stolen one of the army drones. He was about to attempt destroying the humans. Your character throws that muffin to finish him off. I was wondering what usage could've been for that muffin. I never expected this was that at all. The ending is a bit over the top as well as mess up. You are given a key to sent the rest of the characters flying towards their new home.
If you were playing attention to the corn people. You already realize this plan was doomed from the start. They had a silo with chains taking a lot of the land with em. Then suddenly all of it blown sky high in the air. You get falling popcorn the entire ending credits. Now I don't know if Fallout series was an inspiration for this or not.
There was a similar event in Fallout: New Vegas. Where you sent ghouls towards their promised land on a rocket. Which also involved you being the one to start that rocket. Parts of the experience does sorta feel like Fallout series. Maize is a game you should play at least once in your life.
You can tell parts of the humor was inspired by Monty Python and X-Files respectively. This game also on PlayStation, Xbox and Steam. I am reviewing the GOG version that has no achievements. Update: I just found out the same team also respectively for Cel Damage HD. Which I do currently own on Xbox.
Suddenly Maize made more sense to me lol. I'm sure you may question your sanity while playing this. Corn is among my favorite vegetables. I like the band Korn as well. I am just saying inevitably I was going to play an corn game. It's way better than most Children of the Corn movies!!!
Maize is surprisingly a little shorter than expected. Roughly a few hours if you know what you're doing. I also need to mention there's a queen for the corn as well. The scarecrow characters reminded me of Birdy from Conker's Bad Fur Day. Just not as rememberable in comparison. You could joke it's Barn Boys chapter the entire game lol.
I am glad I given this game a try. Vladdy kinda grows on you it sucks he dies. Instead of invisible walls to prevent you getting through. They decided to use a couple red boxes lol. Some crazy stuff does happen especially later on. Maize is a game that's a bit out there. It's great if you wanted a game to get you laughing to a degree.
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