Research firm Newzoo has revealed what it claims were the top-grossing console and PC games in the first quarter of 2024.
17.04.2024 - 14:57 / digitaltrends.com / Giovanni Colantonio
If you’ve been following indie publisher Annapurna Interactive over the last two years, you might be familiar with Lorelei and the Laser Eyes. The new project from Sayonara Wild Hearts developer Simogo has gotten a spotlight at a handful of live-stream showcases since 2022, with trailers teasing its eerie tone and puzzling world. While we’ve known those details for a while, there’s still one burning question that remains: What the hell is it?
After a long wait, I finally have the answer to that question. Annapurna Interactive lifted the lid on the mysterious game, giving me unrestricted access to a full PC build of it. Though I’m still making my way through its puzzle-filled haunted hotel, I’ve played enough to get a good sense of what Simogo is delivering. I’ve also played enough to say, with confidence, that Lorelei and the Laser Eyes might just be one of 2024’s boldest and best games.
ThoughLorelei and the Laser Eyes seems totally foreign when first glancing at its striking black-and-white art style, it’s actually fairly easy to explain. It’s essentially a 1990s horror game with all the combat removed. My journey begins when I arrive at a creepy hotel where I’ll be helping an eccentric Italian auteur film his latest avant-garde masterpiece. There’s a lot of story there, doled out through scattered writing and occasional cutscene breaks, but the bulk of my time is spent solving the hotel.
RelatedIt works a lot like the originalResident Evil orAlone in the Dark. When I start, I’m in a hotel full of locked doors. Some have padlocks requiring number codes. Others need keys. I start with nothing except a letter that gives me a sense of what year I’m in and some tampons. I’m given free reign to explore the open parts of the hotel in any way I’d like, taking mental note of locked doors and picking up objects along the way. Fixed camera angles track my movement from room to room, just like in Resident Evil.
At first, the puzzles I encounter seem simple enough. To unlock shortcut doors, for instance, I get a puzzle book filled with 20 number riddles. Each one has a two-digit answer that I can dial into a lock on a door matching the puzzle’s number. Some of those require me to solve math or word problems, while some more antagonistic ones hide deceptively simple solutions behind basic reading comprehension. Some puzzles will make you feel like a genius when you solve them; others will make you feel like a moron for taking so long to figure them out.
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Research firm Newzoo has revealed what it claims were the top-grossing console and PC games in the first quarter of 2024.
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I found myself in a variety of odd situations while solving puzzles in Lorelei and the Laser Eyes. I spent some time staring at a mid-century movie poster for a documentary about a decomposing cat, wondering if I should focus on the runtime or the date it came out. I pulled up old hotel blueprints and deciphered the math of dead architects. I played a handful of ASCII-style PC games to receive messages from a 19th-century magician who calls me his sister. I found some toy blocks and shoved them into the walls of a secret cathedral. I slipped between realities and traversed a maze that shattered into shard-like pieces under my feet. I watched a woman fall to her death. I wondered if that woman was me.
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