{"id":73983,"date":"2019-12-09T03:08:51","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T10:08:51","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2019-12-09T03:08:51","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T10:08:51","slug":"discolored-is-a-surrealist-spy-thriller-by-way-of-myst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/discolored-is-a-surrealist-spy-thriller-by-way-of-myst\/","title":{"rendered":"Discolored is a surrealist spy thriller by way of Myst"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Jason Godbey<\/small><\/p>\n

It can be difficult to find time to finish a video game, especially if you only have a few hours a week to play. In our biweekly column <\/em>Short Play<\/em><\/a> we suggest video games that can be started and finished in a weekend.<\/em><\/p>\n

At the start of this year, I wrote about What Never Was<\/em><\/a>, a first-person puzzle game similar to Myst <\/em>or Gone Home, <\/em>though on a much smaller scale. In the game, you are confined to a single attic room where all of the puzzles and storytelling takes place. Discolored <\/em>is similar, except you are confined to an entire deserted and desaturated desert diner.<\/p>\n

In Discolored,<\/em> you play what seems to be some sort of secret agent working to return color to a world that has mostly become monotone due to some strange force. There is a 1960s…<\/p>\n

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Jason Godbey It can be difficult to find time to finish a video game, especially if you only have a few hours a week to play. In our biweekly column Short Play we suggest video games that can be started and finished in a weekend. At the start of this year, I wrote about What… Read the full article…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[174,377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games-media","category-gaming"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t