The developers at Feral Cat Den have fused 3D environments with traditional hand-drawn animation with a distinct lighting style to create an aesthetic that never stops popping. The puzzles feel more like punctuations at the end of sentences than the meat of the narrative, the main reason to pick this game up is to vibe with its visual artistry and music. If you want to move beyond traditional genre definitions that we’ve learned to judge games by, I’d describe Genesis Noir as interactive animation, because when you move beyond the raw gameplay of it, the real joy of Genesis Noir comes from the bonkers imagery used to visualize the creation of the universe are routinely stunning and kept me moving forward more than any amount of gameplay could. You join clusters of atoms to create constellations, but sometimes you just click on burp bubbles to pop them. You can physically grab and spin the galaxy to move time forward for these seeds to grow.
Sometimes you walk around planting light and dark seeds that absorb light and dark energy to create a path forward. If you put a gun to my head, I’d describe it as a point-and-click adventure game but it’s just as much a puzzle game, a visual novel, or an art installation. And that’s only half of the appeal.Ī premise as unusual as this can’t be contained within traditional gameplay loops, and this is where I imagine Genesis Noir will ruffle some gamer feathers. It was at this point, roughly five minutes into the game, that I was completely sold on the idea. So yeah, Genesis Noir is essentially a game about stopping the big bang to save someone you love. Instead of immediately killing the victim as gunshots are known to do, Golden Boy’s projectile simply hangs in the air like a slowly expanding balloon, and within the resulting explosion are various points in time that No Man can investigate in an attempt to find the pieces to build a black hole large enough to prevent the Big Bang. This gunshot, prompted by the passion of a perceived slight, Genesis Noir claims is the Big Bang. You play as No Man whose secret love affair with jazz singer Miss Mass sparks the jealousy of Golden Boy, her saxophone player and erstwhile lover who deal with his emotions by shooting Miss Mass. The game follows a bizarre love triangle between entities who aren’t so much characters as they are metaphors for cosmic concepts. Genesis Noir is quite possible the most conceptually insane game I’ve ever played. And while I generally cringe at that style of writing, Genesis Noir is a game I find impossible write about without devolving into hyperbole, so I’ve decided to just roll with it.
Every game released is referred to by someone or the other as “the best ever” something or “the most ever” something else.
The game review space is always overflowing with hyperbolic epithets.
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