The Man Eater
I bought it on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/772500/Distortions/
Official webpage: https://www.amonggiantsgames.com/It is very hard for me to write a review for this game. It would be necessary to read and quote some of the greatest doctors who reserches arts and semiotics. Barthes, Bakhtin among other giants, so I could write something minimally worthy of a masterpiece such as this game.
From gorgeous cut-scenes to the game's mise en scene, the developers use several techniques to make a beautiful and surreal story. There are so much tecniques, from games to films, that it is hard to make a list of all its sources. It would be hard and useless, since unlike nostalgic games (such as Evoland, Horizon Chase and Songs for a Hero), the references we find in Distortions are subtle allusions that does not serve to the reference, but to the story and to make up the enviroment.
For this reason it is also hard to frame this game in a specific genre. Distortions changes from one genre to another, sometimes it is a exploration game with the camera in the back, sometimes it feels like a first person horror, and sometimes it is a side scrolling platform game. Sometimes it is as peaceful as Dear Esther, sometimes it is as tense as Alan Wake.

