Arise: A simple story Part 1

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Published on March 7, 2021 4:36:04 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQDlvX27B-Y

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Arise: A Simple Story (2020)

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https://cryptotabbrowser.com/19387287 The basic plot is simple: you play a nameless, Nordic old man who’s died. Everything begins with the Man burned on a funeral pyre, waking alone in a bright, snowy afterlife. Arise sees you reliving his life, through all its warming glories and cold defeats, looking back at who he was in the end, and how he got there. The time manipulation mechanic is the ‘sell’ - moving events back and forth to solve various puzzles - waters rise and fall, platforms shift in and out of reach - but the real star is how the game verbalises its existential processing through the pad alone. It uses symbolism and imagery from the Man’s memories to create spaces, challenges and threats for you to traverse as much as interpret.

It starts simply enough: the initial levels, 'She' and 'Joy', recount the Man’s early life. A happy childhood expressed through vibrant colours, huge plants and snails made giant from a child's perspective. The music swirls and soars through these adventures - life, and the love of it radiate from the screen. While the level 'Romance' is a silver screen Hollywood musical dance of waterfalls, fireflies and pirouetting lily pads, swept along by weeping strings. The imagery conjured from memories of first love, and the boat ride that led to a kiss. The only clarity comes from occasional statues and effigies that lead you through levels and bookmark these key moments.

But it’s the darker levels that really show how powerfully Arise expresses its message without words. The level 'Alone' sees the Man separated from the girl he will eventually marry. His world literally falls apart as you navigate collapsing rocks and paths to try and find your best friend. It’s here that the concept of self-doubt rears its head. As the Man gets further away from his own people, shadowy spectres of himself line the way ahead, threatening to overwhelm and consume him at every turn.

The chapter 'Ashes', however, is where everything developer Piccolo has been building up to really comes to a head. After the shapeless, hopeful joy of impending fatherhood that forms the previous level 'Fruit', everything is torn down when the child dies in infancy. When Ashes begins you/the Man can’t even initially go on - the character collapsing every few steps as you try to walk away from the memory of your child's funeral pyre. But you try to continue because that’s what life is. Pushing through a world of burning thorns, fire consuming the future lost while doubt demons wait in the shadows, ready to claim you should you falter.

In a beautifully constructed analogy, the Man has to both face and use the flames and the thorns that now fill his life. To confront the very destruction of his life to proceed. Using the fire to burn a path and hold the doubt demons back, he can push on through the thorns. It’s an acutely constructed expression of grief: to go on you have to face the only thing you don’t want, which is to go on. There’s nothing good here, but all you can do is continue.


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