Far from Noise

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  • Summary: You are balanced on the edge of a cliff in an old rusting car. The sun is setting behind the horizon and night will soon fall. With no immediate means of escape, perhaps all that’s left is to attempt to feel some connection with the world at the end of it all.

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  1. Digitally Downloaded
    Nov 20, 2017
    100
    I love Far From Noise. It's one of my highlights for the year. Not as a game - because it's barely a game. I love it because it's genuine bona fide art, made with that explicit intent and, importantly, successful at it. It's a game that weaves a masterful story, and would only really work as interactive art, because ultimately, what this game is about is a conversation... and it wants to hear your answers as much as it wants to pose questions to you.
  2. PlayStation LifeStyle
    Nov 20, 2017
    90
    Far From Noise is an important showcase that games should work within their limitations. A single developer like George Batchelor can never make something that’ll rival Uncharted in scope or scale, but here he’s managed to work within boundaries to make something all the more profound. Smart writing and design can go a long way, and Far From Noise manages to go many places while never leaving the edge of a cliff.
  3. Push Square
    Nov 22, 2017
    80
    Far From Noise is not a game for everyone. If you go in expecting traditional gameplay, you will be highly disappointed, but if you approach it with the understanding of it being almost like a picture book, then you will be in for a magnificently written reflection of yourself as well as musings on some of the heaviest topics about life. We went into this expecting a short title with a bizarre premise, and walked away having consumed a beautiful, occasionally melancholic story that helped us understand ourselves a little better along the way.

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  1. SuperkenGaming
    Nov 14, 2017
    8
    Far From Noise
    a punch to the gut
    Far from noise is an interactive narrative game… It’s actually less of a game and more of an exercise for    Far From Noise
    a punch to the gut
    Far from noise is an interactive narrative game…
    It’s actually less of a game and more of an exercise for your thoughts, for your mind, and your heart and your soul…
    At least it was for me...
    This game takes a little more than an hour and a half to get through...
    You’re balanced on the edge of a cliff inside an old rusty car…
    With no immediate means of escape you’re assured of your doom…
    The engine won’t start, there’s no one around…
    You begin to talk to yourself…
    You can be optimistic or pessimistic
    Calm yourself or worry yourself...
    You’re constantly given choices in how you interact with thoughts and ideas as they present themselves...
    But as you do this you’ll be visited by animals, and I’ll keep this as spoiler free as possible...
    But you talk to these animals... until once chooses to stay with you…
    And you talk to them through the night, about your past, about the uncertainty of your future...
    of your current situation and your desperation to get out of it…
    but this slowly fades as you get lost in the world around you.. In the stars... in your thoughts…
    this is a game that will really make you think and feel…
    I’m going through a bit of a break up right now so I couldn’t help but to attach this to this game... to attach what it was saying to what I was going through…
    And because of that, some parts made me emotional, and others in a way freed me, and gave me hope
    But at the same time I felt anxiety and worry..
    Like my problems meant nothing, while at the same time I was being handed a solution.
    I was angry with the way the game ended, and I won’t say why...
    But I felt that it lost touch with its message, and then I watched it again... and it punched me harder than part previous had.
    Far from noise is a beautiful game that if you let it, will let you reflect on yourself and life.
    Don’t pass it up.
    I give Far From Noise
    an 8/10    … Expand