A fox reporter, racoon photographer, and crime boss bear walk into a game.
Backbone, a 2021 adventure game, was one of the hardest games I've ever had to review. The concepts, the artwork, the music, the atmosphere were all right. Not just good—they feltThose pieces of Backbone fit together so elegantly it felt like it was bound to be one of the best indie games of the year. A demo promised a proper murder mystery where you'd solve puzzles and make choices to determine the fate of the world around you.
A key part of Backbone is that the more it progresses, the less choices you can make. This eventually spins into a situation where your protagonist is deathly ill in what could have been an entirely avoidable situation. He strays from the path I would have picked for him and feel helpless as he puts himself in harm's way. It's a meditation on determinism, but going from that involved puzzling gameplay to just letting the worst shit ever happen to the main character… it felt unfinished.
The strongest section of the demo, by far, is Renne's, a reporter fox that you also meet in the original Backbone. Her environment is the most inviting: I was envious that I didn't live in her rooftop apartment myself. But her section is also the most involved as you have to convince her partner that something about a police report isn't quite adding up.
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