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Stillness is the move
From Tokyo Story to Kentucky Route Zero, art speaks through silence.
From Tokyo Story to Kentucky Route Zero, art speaks through silence.
What’s over the moon?
Thoughtful and methodical, 400 Years is a humble Flash game with bold ideas. You play as a sort of living stone face (think pixel art Easter Island statue). You move through the 2D world, as one does in a platformer, only, instead of giving you a jump command, pressing the space bar advances time, season by season. You have precisely 400 years (with four seasons each), to reach the end of the game. – – – To accomplish this, you must make clever use of your time-advancing abilities. In winter, water freezes, allowing you to walk across ponds and lakes.…