![]() In fact, I found myself flipping between loving and hating it, often in the space of a single loading screen.īefore we get into any specifics, it’s worth establishing what kind of game this is because you really do need to go in with the appropriate expectations. After all, this is not a title that is likely to elicit too many “meh” responses from players. Well, if the best way of judging art is to evaluate whether it achieves what it sets out to, then you can only interpret Martha Is Dead as a rousing success. ‘ Martha Is Dead? Just another game’ would hurt me so much! I like strong feelings.” He says: “The only feedback I hope to never see is indifference. In the official press notes, writer-director Luca Dalco states that he wanted to deliberately court controversy with his game and provoke a range of extreme reactions (a la Lars von Trier). Regardless of if you like those qualities, you have to at the very least respect them. To clarify, that’s not meant in the sense of its literal difficulty curve (as far as I can tell there is no fail state here and it’s impossible to die) but rather in terms of its uncomfortable themes, its lack of narrative spoon-feeding and the way that its story ends with such ballsy ambiguity that it almost feels like the whole thing was just an elaborate practical joke. ![]() Martha Is Dead is exceedingly difficult to review because it gets so much right, up until the moment it doesn’t.Įverything about this psychological thriller from The Town of Light developer LKA is deeply challenging.
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