This episode presents the part where Sally moves with his father to a new apartment, where his neighbors are even weirder than he is. The goal is to solve puzzles and explore a weird world, all of which are part of the boy’s memories, although it’s a pretty trippy experience from start to finish. Sally Face Episode One: Strange Neighbors is a very interesting adventure game with 2D graphics and a focus on storytelling, in which you play the role of a boy with pigtails and a prosthetic face. The latter may not even desire all the attention they are getting, so it’s always better to avoid pointing out irregularities in people. While some choose to step outside the normal on their own, others are forced by circumstance to stick out from the crowd. It’s one you won’t forget for a long while.Weird stories usually attract attention, because people are fascinated by things that are out of the ordinary somehow. The homage to the ‘90s in terms of music, visuals, and certain sequences are all nice touches, and my only real criticism is that you may well find yourselves lost at times as the solutions to progress aren’t always as apparent as they should be.īut apart from that, you’ll love your time with Sally Face. It is truly original and takes you on an amazing journey over its five chapters. Sally Face is an excellent piece of creative work, especially in terms of story and visuals. The sound is solid with some good effects too, whilst the music has a metal theme and works brilliantly with the game. I will never forget a sequence in which a ghost appears for the rest of my life – but that’s all you’re getting from me, no spoilers. And it’s not afraid to switch things up too, heading into a nightmare world and the surreal it’s here where it really comes alive. It’s a brilliant piece of work visually, with striking character work and great detail in all its level design. The developer of Sally Face – Steve Gabry (Portable Moose) – has had this idea brewing since 2007 and the animation has been influenced by ’90s cartoons like Ren and Stimpy. It’s like a mixture of a teen drama series with Hellraiser. All the characters encountered are brilliantly rounded, interesting and a pleasure to spend time with. It plays with the supernatural uniquely and fascinatingly, but it also puts you in surreal environments where you might be examining the art of the devil himself, to becoming a doodle on a piece of paper, walking around and talking to other scribbles.
Like a strange nightmare, you question what is reality and what is in Sally Face’s imagination. The story – told over the five episodes – is an intriguing and thrilling one throughout.
Sally Face explores the apartments and soon finds himself led into a world of darkness and mystery. This apartment is dealing with the murder of one of its tenants from the get-go and the other rooms scattered around hold some very strange and unusual residents. We then zoom back to the ’90s where Sally Face – now as a young boy – is found with a tragic past and a prosthetic face, moving into some apartments with his father. Sally Face is a boy who we first see as a grown man getting interviewed by a psychiatrist at the start of the game. It’s a narrative adventure game, very much like a point and clicker that puts you in the title shoes of Sally Face. Now though, lucky console owners get to play the whole complete story now, across five episodes. First released in 2016 on PC, Sally Face was dropped in episodic fashion over the coming years.
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