Whispering Willows - Fright Night on the Ouya Bus

Whispering Willows is a rather odd title. Not because of its genre, adventure games are not exactly a rarity after all and nor is it because of the theme of the game, horror being a rather frequent popup title on the likes of Steam. Instead its odd because of its origins, being released originally as a Ouya title, then ported across to the PC because it wasn't making a bit of money there. I call it odd simply because the Ouya presence still seeps within the game itself... This isn't exactly a bad thing however...

I say that because if there is one thing that the Ouya did try and be a beacon for was for original gaming, games that usually wouldn't have been given a second look on more traditional platforms such as baby hiding simulators, couch-multiplayer arena games (something that's having a resurgence it seems across consoles and PC) and then there's this.

7th Guest - Feeeling Lonely?

FMV gaming was a weird little thing that happened around the early to mid-nineties where suddenly gaming wanted real actors and a feeling of a TV show and/or film to accompany their gaming experience. Overall however FMV gaming in my eyes has aged badly and overall was a bit of a failed attempt at bringing movie-like film techniques to games, this is down to poor acting, low budgets and cheesy storylines and nothing really showcases all of this (and more) than one of the games that really kickstarted this off, the adventure title '7th Guest' by Trilobyte software.