(11-30-2017, 11:45 PM)Retriever II Wrote: Take a game like Ori and the Blind Forest, a game with pretty stunning production values across the board. Take away the music, and you have a very pretty game that feels emotionally dead. While the bare game mechanics keep us distracted and the graphics fill us with wonder, the music is telling us how we feel.Well I mean, in this case, Ori's literal button-mashing game mechanics don't take much attention so they barely distract the player, but I get your point in general.
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