ICEY

A fun and clever hack 'n slash game that makes interesting narrative choices and where you don't care that not every point is completely successful? Then ICEY is for you.
Watch a short gameplay here:
ICEY is a special game that has much more to offer than appears at first sight.
Using the narrator to convey the story and the way it escalates is amazing,
as well as the excellent audiovisual presentation.
Add this to a nice combat system that gets more extensive and complex as ICEY progresses and you're left with a game that you don't come across every day.
However, you will just have to look for the secrets and get over some minor frustrations for it. However, the full experienced rewards enough to make the trip worth it.

The narrator told me to put 5 stars

I'll keep this simple: If you know any Japanese or are willing to read subtitles, PLAY WITH THE JAPANESE NARRATOR. The voice acting and narration between the English and Japanese narrators is very significant, both (slightly) in content and very much in delivery. The Japanese narrator pours his heart into the dialogue and it makes all the difference.
The best aspects of this game are the action-based gameplay that actually requires learning skilled timing and the choice-based story with the narrator. It's kind of a cross between Stanley Parable, Nier;Automata, and a hack-and-slash sidescroller. If you investigate all the endings, the lore is actually pretty deep, and the narrator is an absolute pleasure to listen to and mess with. I highly recommend.

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☐ Good
☑ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS
---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't
---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf
---{ Audience }---
☑ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma
---{ PC Requirements }---
☑ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer
---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls
---{ Grind }---
☑ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding
---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☑ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life
---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☑ Short
☐ Average
☐ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond
---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money
---{ Bugs }---
☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs
---{ ? / 10 }---
☐ 1
☐ 2
☐ 3
☐ 4
☐ 5
☐ 6
☐ 7
☑ 8
☐ 9
☐ 10

*Angry Narrator noise in the background*
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It feels in a way a 2d mix of Metal gear rising and The stanley parable with the best aerial combat I've seen in a 2d Action game. The commentary can be hilarious as I laughed out loud multiple times while also managing to fill me with a deep existential dread at times.
Thanks so much to my friend Ludens for buying this for me. I hadn't heard of it beforehand but it was fucking incredible

if creativity was a game that would definitely icey.