

What would normally control your hand will now only zoom in and out. Most of the time, while the father is telling the story, your suit capabilities will be withheld in order to enhance the dialogue. If you're that guy who holds up your entire team in Diablo to watch every cut scene (like me), you'll fall in love with the mysteries of the cryptic, yet thrilling, storyline, the pieces of evidence you find whilst swinging from aesthetically enticing pieces of rock, and befriending the perplexing Maddie.Ī Story About My Uncle features two different interfaces, the first being the narration and the second being the suit abilities. If you prefer to know more about the story line, players can search around platforms for narration-inducing clues and artifacts to Uncle Fred's adventurous whereabouts. You can choose the path that suits your gameplay, if you prefer to speed through the game you can do so with grace. The story line is equal parts compelling and alluring.

The actual fun begins once you discover a suit that (mysteriously) fits you perfectly and pull a switch that literally launches you into an unknown, fantasy world. After a brief dialogue revealing the adventures of the father and his Uncle Fred, a researcher and scientist who traveled all over the world collecting data and "sending postcards." The StoryĪs you act out the protagonist role of the story, the father continues to narrate the chronological tale of the time he went on a journey to find his Uncle Fred after discovering him missing from his house. The plot line behind A Story About My Uncle is a familiar fantasy of a father telling a bedtime story to his daughter.
