All of a sudden a game can have mature themes, a compelling story, and (for the time) mindblowing visual style. With the release of Prince of Persia in 1989, Out of This World (Another World) in 1991, and Flashback in 1992, this subgenre of platformers with cinematic elements made a huge splash in the world of video games. This week we are talking about 2.5D Cinematic Platformers, Playdead's LIMBO and INSIDE.Ĭinematic Platformers were created in the 80s and 90s to bring a sense of realism and narrative to the Platformer genre in an era when very few games even tried to tell an interesting story. I co-host a horror video game podcast called Zero Brightness.
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