Posts tagged The Maw
Silicon Sasquatch’s Honorable Mentions of 2009: Aaron’s picks
Dec 30th
While our Top 10 Games of 2009 deserve attention for their overall excellence, we can’t neglect this year’s other fantastic games — titles that just missed the final cut. Be it their charm or presentation, our Honorable Mentions were simply hard to forget. We now present a five-part series of articles, one from each member of the Silicon Sasquatch staff. Today, Aaron brings us our penultimate installment in this series with his list of honorable mentions.
Review: The Maw (XBLA)
Feb 17th
“Eat things.”
That tagline, found on the website of The Maw developers Twisted Pixel Games, paraphrases the entire motif this downloadable action/adventure title was created on: You eat, a lot. In fact, you eat so much that by the end of the game your purple blob companion, known appropriately as Maw, has become its own planet. A heaping of charm is automatically added to a game when I don’t remember the last time a videogame protagonist ate himself to planetoid proportions.
And charm is exactly what The Maw does best. To me, it feels like playing through a lost chapter of some Pixar film that was never produced. The charisma oozes from this unassuming Live Arcade title that, honestly, I might have passed up. Its PAX 10 audience award and 2009 Independent Games Festival finalist designation illustrate that critically the game is given its fair share, but that, as always, doesn’t mean it will get noticed commercially. I hope it does and prospers, because The Maw is a more engaging title than a majority of the mainstream retail games churned out week by week.