The Interlude is a game about fidgeting. Technically it’s a game about ready. But doesn’t ready all the time change into fidgeting? Particularly if you’re ready for one thing tense, like this ne’er-do-well parked of their automobile on a darkish night, messages filling up their telephone in regards to the unspecified encounter they’re about to have with an unsaved contact. It’s eerie, and that eeriness causes restlessness, particularly if you’re trapped within the drivers’ seat with nowhere to go.
Also eerie is how simply I managed to copy my real-life ready room routines throughout the game. First, play some Snake, as a result of why not. But you then begin to fear that you just may miss the particular person you’re presupposed to be assembly, so that you simply idly scroll the web in order to not occupy an excessive amount of of your consideration. There’s a bit of stories, a couple of photos of racoons. But un-distracted with out the game, you begin to fear in regards to the assembly going south, which in flip makes it tough to focus on the web. It’s getting boring anyway, so that you simply begin fidgeting with issues round you: sipping espresso, flipping a deal with up and down, turning the radio on and off. Watching passing automobiles and questioning the place the individuals inside are going.
I really like the actual fact there may be completely no earlier than or after to The Interlude. It begins within the automobile park and ends the second the particular person you’re ready for exhibits up. It’s not right here to reply questions on what you have been ready for, solely what you do if you’re within the second of ready itself. It performs for about 10 minutes in actual time irrespective of the way you whereas away the time, all stress and hypothesis and idle actions.
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