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Did I make a post about The Beginner's Guide? I meant to, but apparently I never got around to it.
Well, I'd recommend playing it, but in case you don't want to pay $10 on Steam for a game that only lasts a couple of hours or so (my full playtime was 116 minutes, so says Steam), here (and below) is a full LP of it by Liam and Woolie of Super Best Friends Play. The video was apparently recorded on the day that the game released (October 1, 2015). They go in completely blind, knowing nothing about the game, and that's truly the best way to experience it, I think. It took them about an hour and a half, same as me, and then there's a few minutes of "WTF did we just play? Was this real?" stuff at the end of the video. I'd already played through the game myself, but I have to say that watching the LP and hearing their reactions to the game was just as interesting, since I shared a lot of them.
Here are my own thoughts about the game:
I'm pretty sure that the whole thing is "kayfabe," to use a bit of pro wrestling lingo. Or, more appropriately, it's what you'd call a "worked shoot." It's seems pretty clear that it's not real because A) a guy as severely aloof as Coda was presented to be, especially later on, most likely wouldn't have ever gone to a gamejam-type event in the first place, and B) if it is real, then Davey Wreden is a human piece of fecal matter for putting Coda's stuff on Steam (and especially for selling it for $10), after being explicitly asked by Coda not to share his work anymore. I'm of the opinion that neither Coda nor Davey Wreden, the character narrating The Beginner's Guide, are real (as opposed to Davey Wreden, the guy who made The Beginner's Guide and The Stanley Parable, who I'm pretty sure is indeed real [and who may or may not be dealing with some real life issues of his own that may possibly have inspired the creation of this game]). I have no idea if there is a real life equivalent to or inspiration for Coda at all, but if there is and he's even a little bit like how the guy in the game was portrayed, I'm not sure whether I'd want to meet the guy or run screaming in the other direction. >_>; My belief, until proven otherwise, is that Coda is pure fiction, though, perhaps a representation of Wreden's own creative side.
(EDIT) Oh, and I briefly disabled my Youtube comment blocking add-on on Firefox just to look to see what people might have been saying about the game and the video, and I was very, very quickly reminded of exactly why I was blocking Youtube comments altogether in the first place. When will I ever learn. (/EDIT)
Well, I'd recommend playing it, but in case you don't want to pay $10 on Steam for a game that only lasts a couple of hours or so (my full playtime was 116 minutes, so says Steam), here (and below) is a full LP of it by Liam and Woolie of Super Best Friends Play. The video was apparently recorded on the day that the game released (October 1, 2015). They go in completely blind, knowing nothing about the game, and that's truly the best way to experience it, I think. It took them about an hour and a half, same as me, and then there's a few minutes of "WTF did we just play? Was this real?" stuff at the end of the video. I'd already played through the game myself, but I have to say that watching the LP and hearing their reactions to the game was just as interesting, since I shared a lot of them.
Here are my own thoughts about the game:
(EDIT) Oh, and I briefly disabled my Youtube comment blocking add-on on Firefox just to look to see what people might have been saying about the game and the video, and I was very, very quickly reminded of exactly why I was blocking Youtube comments altogether in the first place. When will I ever learn. (/EDIT)
