Anodyne

dusty

Absolutely fantastic game! I just love the weird dialogues and mystic elements of it.

Pleasant RPG.

beautiful and resonant

Great little short game! Had a lot of fun playing it, and the art is really good.

even compared to even the ocean, analgesic's very next game, anodyne is a young artist's project in many ways...split between a nostalgic impression of its influences while also approaching them with an almost mischievous iconoclasm, every creative decision wrapped around a clear and readable goal (despite their ostensibly cryptic delivery), and a raw emotional reality delivered with very little self-consciousness. it is in many ways analgesic's most alienating game, which makes the set of circumstances that lead to it being likely still their most popular kind of amusing...some of those circumstances could be looked at with cynicism (perhaps a links awakening-like is just an easier pitch than anything theyve made since) but i believe part of it was also a greater patience and interest at the time for even more alienating and amorphous masterpieces like yume nikki. and much like yume nikki, anodyne is best played simply for the sensation of Playing Anodyne...a lonely, absurd, morbid, r...

Amazing game. If you like zelda-like games I definitely recommend it. I still think about it months after finishing it, not sure what happened but I enjoyed the journey lol