Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP Review

I imagine most people would call Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP ("Sworcery") a graphic adventure. You spend time walking around, figuring out where to go and what to do, talking to people, searching for clues, and, inevitably, hitting your head against the wall when you get stuck. It's less story-focused than most adventure games, and has a healthy dose of a pixel-art visual style and atmospheric music tracks, but in my mind what defines the game is how it plays with the format of what it means to be an iPad app.

Most story-based games try to exist in a vacuum; Sworcery couldn't care less. Or more accurately, it revels in the ways games can reach outside themselves -- to the point that playing sometimes feels like you're sitting behind the scenes with the developers while it's happening. Stopping short of something like Mystery Science Theatre where there are literally people on the screen, there's a subtle sense that as you play, someone is constantly nudging you, saying "did you see what just happened?" And then cracking jokes about it.

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