Games That Can't Be Won Or Lost II
GameCritics review of "Siren"
"Siren" is a concrete example of using "unwinnable" gameplay to heighten dramatic effect. "Siren" is a survival-horror game which casts the player as 12 different characters. According to the review, "because there are so many of them [playable characters], we know that not everyone is going to get out of this alive. This creates more tension than the average game, where the player is pretty well assured that so long as they make all the jumps at the right time their character is going to cross the finish line in one piece."
"Siren" is a concrete example of using "unwinnable" gameplay to heighten dramatic effect. "Siren" is a survival-horror game which casts the player as 12 different characters. According to the review, "because there are so many of them [playable characters], we know that not everyone is going to get out of this alive. This creates more tension than the average game, where the player is pretty well assured that so long as they make all the jumps at the right time their character is going to cross the finish line in one piece."
