However, there is also another level of understanding, of culture. This is all interesting and sometimes useful knowledge and it is often included in textbooks. It includes what we used to call ‘British and American life and institutions’, ‘daily life’ and also cultural artefacts, such as the arts or sports. What culture covers is the commonly held traditions, values and ways of behaving of a particular community. Many teachers quote the Dutch psychologist Geert Hofstede’s maxim ‘Software of the Mind’, the subtitle of his 2005 book ‘Cultures and Organisations’.
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Anytime I had to quit the game and come back later I was somewhere a few minutes prior to where I had left off. It does save at certain points, I’m just not sure when. I did run into one small problem, which is there’s no save point or checkpoint system in the game menu. Backbone is more of a make the right decisions and don’t get caught sort of game. Howard did get beat up, but there was no way around that. I didn’t get into any combat, but I don’t think this game needs that. There are parts that consist of sneaking around, puzzles to solve, and I’m sure there’s even more on the way. I did experience other gameplay features other than just narrative elements and dialogue trees. There’s also some silliness to it - like Monkeybutt. There are some games that cutscenes and dialogue are skippable, this is not one of them.īackbone is a mature game, featuring adult themes and language. Backbone is a game that you must fully immerse yourself in. It’s also not a ‘Netflix & Play’ type of game - you know those games you can play only using part of your brain while you consume other content with the other part of your brain. This is not a game to play while tired though, you will need to do a lot of reading and responding to characters. Although it may seem like a cute animal version of an old school detective film we still get the murder, drugs, a mob family, gangs, shady characters and more. If you upset someone early on during a conversation, you may not discover some much needed details.īackbone is a story-heavy game, and the story is quite good. This is a true narrative adventure, where the responses you choose truly make a difference. The most important thing I learned early on in Backbone was to talk to and interact with everyone and everything. At times, I found myself having deep conversations with other characters in complete silence. The only problem was at times where the game was completely silent. The music adds some eerie undertones to the gameplay and conversations. The game also features some soothing jazz tunes. Just look at the reflection and lighting below. It also helps that there are multiple layers of movement across the screen: including cars driving by and characters in the foreground.
Close upĪs Howard walks through big, living city blocks you almost forget that the art design is so simple.There’s small things like the use of reflection, shadows and lighting that make this simple art style stand out in games. While the close-ups feature big, low-res pixel imagery, they are still visually stunning. Gameplay and cutscenes are mixed between both close up and panned out shots. The game features a beautiful, pixel art design. The dialogue even reminds me of those classic 1940s black and white PI film - like The Maltese Falcon (1941) - or even the more recent Brick (2005) by Rian Johnson. Backbone’s story feels straight out of an old crime novel. The overall tone of the game is much more serious than you’d expect from a talking animal filled world. Howard is your classic, sad detective looking for that one job that’s going to change everything. In the game you play as Howard Lotor, a raccoon private investigator, in a dystopian Vancouver, BC that is inhabited by bipedal human-like animals. Backbone is a post-noir narrative adventure game from indie studio EggNut.
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