Even from the start I found myself constantly in challenges where I was waiting for something to spin, flip, rotate, or move before I could jump to it and continue to platform. I’m not sure why it choose to do this, but it feels like A Story About My Uncle was going out of its way to prevent me from just enjoying the simple act of swinging around on a grappling hook. …Or at least I should have felt that way, in theory. Once I did figure out the controls I felt pretty good jumping and swinging from platform to platform. In the early stages of the game I found myself falling into the pits often while I became accustomed to everything. The game has a bit of a learning curve to it, trying to understand when the best time to detach the hook so you can swing forward or when it was the best time to use your rocket dash, took some getting used to.
Using these few skills I found myself having to navigate across groups of floating island and large caves, trying to avoid falling to my death. I could preform super jumps or long jumps, use the grappling hook to swing from objects, and later in the game got rocket boots that allowed me to preform a midair dash. I can already tell this grappling hook is going to take me placesĪ Story About My Uncle also suffers from inconsistent gameplay, which is a shame as I don’t think the ideas were all that bad and its heart is in the right place. The ending also fails to hit any kind of dramatic notes, having a weird moral shoehorned in at the last moment and honestly coming off more stupid than heart warming. Another character, a frog girl named Maddie, sounds more annoying than anything else. The father sounds really monotone, like he’s either bored or unsure of his lines. Still, I found the game’s emotional scenes to fall flat, especially thanks to the game’s particularly weak voice acting. The father’s journey is interesting and along the way he sees some interesting sights and meets a weird race of frog-people, all while telling little stories of uncle Fred’s eccentric ways. It’s a simple tale that seems to be aimed for a younger crowd mostly, which makes sense considering it’s supposed to be a bedtime story. Using this he begins a journey to find his uncle Fred. All he finds, however, is an “adventuring suit” that includes a grappling hook.
After Fred has disappeared for months the father decides to go searching for him. A first person platformer with heavy focus on an energy grappling hook, does the game manage to fly high or should this story be kept quiet?Īs one would probably expect from the title, A Story About My Uncle is a bedtime story told by a father to his daughter about his uncle Fred. A Story About My Uncle is hoping to change that. Despite the relative popularity of the game, we never really saw much more in the way of first person platforming. In 2008 we saw Mirror’s Edge, a first person parkour game with heavy platforming elements.
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