Originally released on 2015-03-31
UPDATE 2016-11-02: Version 0.2! Updated, corrected and improved EXE edition, now with HTML5 version for browsers. Also updated the FLAC with correct tags. Why do I bother?
Walking to Sad Pianos While Pressing W is a pretentious waste of time and space. You are some beardman walking around a city. Then it ends. It’s got achievements though. Kids like those.
Walking to Sad Pianos was a mistake.
Inspired by such “masterpieces” as Polygon’s Game of the Year
Gone Home, the actually great Stanley Parable, and the awful, awful, worthless piece of crap created by that non-dev FoldableHuman called Resist, which this game is a parody of, or something. I forgot what I was doing half-way through.
Blah.
Inspired by this tweet:
To them, "Walking to Sad Pianos While Pressing W" would be forever tainted as long as "Tits and Explosions 27: Boobs Unleashed" still exists
— Lo-Ping (@GamingAndPandas) March 31, 2015
Also inspired by this game:
http://thebestgamers.net/art.html
(Just in case there’s any shenanigans: The reviews inside the game from Polygon and Kotaku are obviously fake. I shouldn’t even have to say this.)
PRESS
The great guys at
lo-ping.org (i.e. the guys who inspired me to make the game in the first place) made this Polygon-tastic video review that’s here on YouTube. So go watch that instead:
Also, Michael Campbell (@EvilBobDALMYT) wrote for Super Nerd Land a review of the game, which is here.
http://supernerdland.com/walking-to-sad-pianos-while-pressing-w-review/
WHY IS THERE A TEN MINUTE REVIEW OF THE GAME — WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE? I mean, The Button Buddies guys at Digitato played my game recently apparently maybe, so there you go. (Warning: It spoils the entire “game”. Did I say “warning”? I meant “pro-tip”.)
I feel as if I had vomited over a carpet, and people had stood around to contemplate the stain.
Gamer24h Editor's Take
Put under the Gamer24h team's microscope, Walking to Sad Pianos While Pressing W raises the bar considerably with both its storytelling and technical polish. Developer MarsCat has done a remarkable job of drawing players into its world, earning our admiration with its attention to detail. Masterfully blending Adventure mechanics with modern standards, the game's fluid gameplay makes hours fly by unnoticed. If you're looking for an absorbing world and satisfying mechanics that pull you right in, this game might be exactly what you've been searching for.