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User Reviews for: Indie Game: The Movie

Mitzle-deleted-1476635645
8/10  9 years ago
So I watched documentary called Indie Game: The Movie. Now, I might be a little biased, considering I had already bought and played every single one of the games featured in this movie, but I do think that, regardless, it is a very well done documentary. The documentary shows the development process of three different indie games, and the way that they set up for filming is particularly clever. Here you've got the perspective of someone who built their game from scratch, and had a tremendous amount of success in the market. Here you've got someone dealing with the pre-production side of the business, while his game's still in development. And the best segment of the three is for Super Meat Boy, chronicling the period of time just before and during the game's release date, so they were not only able to get good interviews from the creators of three different credible indie games, but they were also able to show the different stages in creating a successful indie title. And it's even crazier when you consider that they started filming two of these stories before they'd even had a success. I mean the documentary would have kind of a different tone of Super Meat Boy turned out to be a total flop, so I applaud the filmmakers for being able to detect a success before it happens. Not only that, but who better to score the soundtrack than Jim Guthrie, the composer behind the fantastic soundtrack for the indie game Superbrothers: Sword & Sorcery. Now, this film's soundtrack doesn't exactly live up to that one, but it's going for more of a documentary feel anyway, so I respect that. I'm really glad that this documentary touched on the general psychology of video games, and what it takes to make a player learn a new mechanic. There's an interesting science behind it, that I'm sure even non-gamers would find interesting. Now, I understand that not everybody likes Fez, and Phil Fish has done some pretty douchey things in the spotlight, but I don't see that as any reason not to be able to enjoy the documentary anyway. I mean, you're free to interpret what anyone's saying whatever way you want, and to me, the highlight of the movie is listening to Edward [sic] McMillan talk about what inspires him in his art, and that whether or not you enjoy his games, they come from a very personal place within him. This documentary is entertaining, well edited, and a lot of clever choices were made. I'm recommending this one to pretty much anybody.
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