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Neil Gaiman || Breaking New Ground with Wayward...
Neil Gaiman || Breaking New Ground with Wayward Manor
You may have heard that Neil Gaiman was working on a Video Game, I have mixed feelings, as you can see from the video above which is a game for the Sega Genesis that I loved growing up. This video shows you that the basis of Niel’s game, as recapped in the quote below, is far from original.
Set in a 1920s Victorian Gothic pastoral estate, Wayward Manor focuses on the plight of a ghost whose hope of a peaceful after-life is interrupted by a remarkable cast of intruders. Awoken from his post-mortem slumbers, our ghost must find ever-more inventive and brilliant ways to scare them away.
Which is the same as the idiosyncratic Sega Genesis game above, minus the Victorian styling. That pisses me off on the nose, but then I remember how much I loved and played the Genesis game, far past its era, and I just hope that this ‘Wayward Manor’ game pays some damn homage to it’s granddaddy, because to not learn from the only similar game ever made is just stupid. Let’s make it a new fun genre, not just jerk off Neil, mmkay?
