![]() ![]() Worse, he is immediately cast down and crippled for his ignorance, and his town suffers a great calamity.Gorogoa feels like a sort of magic that might fall apart in the understanding. Then the dragon closes it and fades away, leaving the boy distraught. Yank the Dog's Chain: After much effort the boy finally finds the five fruits and offers them up to the dragon, coming face to face with its eye.To bypass it you must use the tiles and some perspective trickery to shrink him to fit through a tiny opening and then unshrink him so he can enter the tower. Sizeshifter: At one point the boy's path to the purple fruit is blocked by some piles of garbage.Silence Is Golden: Not a single word is spoken throughout the game, with even the text rendered in asemic glyphs.Secret Test of Character: The ending can be interpreted as the boy ultimately collecting the five true fruits - the five phases of his life, with his natural death as an old man completing the final 'fruit' and the entire offering.Scenery Porn: The art style is strikingly naturalistic and lavishly detailed, leading to some gorgeous setpieces such as the boy's journey for the yellow fruit and the fallout of the carnage the town suffers later in his life.Nameless Narrative: Fitting in with Silence Is Golden below, neither of the key characters are named nor is the boy's town.Mind Screw: Amidst the game bouncing between the timeline freely, the highly allegorical nature of the dragon, and the complex gameplay, analyzing the story is no easy task.Mental Time Travel: One possible interpretation of how the protagonist is able to travel throughout different times of his life to obtain the fruits is that he is reminiscing about his past mistakes and folly in pursuing the dragon, projecting himself as his younger, more innocent self.MacGuffin: The five fruits are what the boy seeks to offer to the dragon so that he may behold its glory.Our Dragons Are Different: The game's centerpiece is an Eastern-style dragon brightly colored in various hues and bearing scales reminiscent of exotic fish and corals.Innocence Lost: As the scenes of our protagonist's post-quest life show, being rejected by the dragon was only the tip of the iceberg of suffering he endured.In the full game, the two figures are instead a boy and an old man, implying just how long the boy's story is going to turn out to be - and that that may very well be have been the point all along. Foreshadowing: In the original demo - unlockable by beating the game - the image of the prophecy that starts the whole story depicts the five fruits being offered by two boys.Even though it survives, the scars are still felt throughout. Doomed Hometown: Midway through the game's timeline, the protagonist's town suffers heavily from an unknown calamity, presumed to be either a great war or a natural disaster.Sadly, even such rigorous trials are not enough to ease his suffering. At one point the protagonist tries to atone for his perceived sins by engaging in various religious rituals. ![]() Coming of Age Story: Ultimately, the story is less about the dragon and more about the protagonist being humbled by his experiences living through a near-fatal accident, a calamity that ravaged his town, and everything that happened after. ![]() Anachronic Order: The game jumps constantly between the protagonist's journey to obtain the five fruits and his increasingly older self struggling with the fallout of his labors being for naught.All for Nothing: Even with all the boy went through to find the fruits, the dragon refuses the offer and casts him down for his unbalanced ambition.What follows is a tale of tragedy and lost innocence as the dragon seeker comes to grips with the price of his journey. And so, having found the bowl in his home's closet, he sets out to seek the fruits that will summon the dragon. A young boy, his curiosity piqued by the sight, reads up on the creature and finds that the dragon can be appeased by offering a bowl containing five differently-colored fruits. ![]() One day, a majestic rainbow-colored dragon appears within a nameless town. Versions for Playstation 4 and Xbox One followed on May 22, 2018, with those for Android and Kindle Fire not long after. Gorogoa is an indie sliding-tile puzzle game developed and illustrated by Jason Roberts and published by Annapurna Interactive on Decemfor Steam, Nintendo Switch and iOS. ![]()
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