Full, professional voice over and hours of original music.An eccentric cast, including a sideshow freak, a telepathic starfish, an animatronic fortune-teller, and a trio of masqueraders. Dozens of rooms to explore, with variant versions as the carnival grows ever more twisted.Breathtaking pixel art in twice Primordia's resolution (640x360-party like it's 1999!).Approximately five hours of gameplay, replayable thanks to different choices, different puzzle solutions, and different endings.You are not the audience you are the player. Ultimately, Strangeland's story will be your story. Unlike many adventure games that offer a linear experience and single-solution puzzles, Strangeland lets you pick your own way, your own approach, and your own meaning-one player might win a carnival game with sharpshooting, another by electrical engineering one player might unravel a strange prophet's wordplay while another gathers visual clues scattered throughout the environment. Navigating this domain of monsters and metaphors will require understanding its denizens and its enigmas. Amidst such madness, death itself has no grip on you, and you will wield that slippery immortality to gain an edge over your foes. Forge a blade from iron stolen from the jaws of a ravenous hound and hone it with wrath and grief charm the eye out of a ten-legged teratoma and ride a giant cicada to the edge of oblivion. Indeed, figuring out where-and who-you are is one of the game's many mysteries.Īs you explore Strangeland, you will need to gather otherworldly tools and win strange allies to overcome a daunting array of obstacles. Strangeland, of course, is most definitely not the real world. In their funhouse mirrors, their freaks, and their frauds, we see hideous and haunting reflections of ourselves, and we witness the wonder and horror of humanity in just a few frayed tents, peeling circus wagons, dingy booths, and run-down rides. Even in the real world, carnivals occupy a twilight territory between the fantastic and the mundane, the alien and the familiar. For almost a decade, we've been working on a worthy successor to the fan-acclaimed Primordia, and we are proud, at long last, to share our second game. Strangeland is a classic point-and-click adventure that integrates a compelling narrative with engaging puzzles. All the while, a shadow shrieks from atop a towering roller-coaster, and you know that until you destroy this Dark Thing, the woman will keep jumping, falling, and dying, over and over again. You seek clues and help from jeering ravens, an eyeless scribe, a living furnace, a mismade mermaid, and many more who dwell within the park. Strangeland isn't a bad film, but considering the concept, it makes you wonder how much potential this flick really had.You awake in a nightmarish carnival and watch a golden-haired woman hurl herself down a bottomless well for your sake. The film does possess something worth mentioning, Dee Snider as the villain. However, I still enjoyed the film, even though the plot was imperfect, and the cast were so-so. If Dee Snider would have spent time rewriting a second draft, then maybe we would have had something very memorable on our hands. There are some very interesting ideas at work here, but the script clearly suffers from being underdeveloped. I was very much surprised and I really didn't think it was that bad. There's nothing truly remarkable about this one, except if you're looking for an underrated B movie, then check this film out. There's an inventive plot in its somewhat sketchy script, and it works well enough for its 90 minute run time. Although not perfect, I felt that Strangeland wasn't as bad as what every critic has said. The film has a dark, moody, melancholic atmosphere which adds to the tone of story. In a way that's what makes him appealing. Snider's character is eccentric, bizarre and psychotic who says stuff that really doesn't make any sense. The acting is fairly decent, never anything good but definitely not as bad as what many critics have said. Although Snider's ideas are a bit rough, there are still plenty of good things going for the film. This is an underrated film that has a unique concept. Strangeland which is written by Heavy Metal musician Dee Snider of Twisted Sister fame.
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