Monday, January 13, 2014

Stuff about Nidhogg

Nidhogg is a game about an orange guy and a yellow guy, each with fencing foils trying to stab each other in order traversing a fantastical landscape to reach the ultimate goal of offering themselves as a snack to a colossal worm as a crowd watches and cheers with satisfaction.

Why are they doing this and for what? What force in this bizarre world motivates people to compete in this contest of wits and skill so they can face death by giant invertebrate? The promise of life beyond endless combat?

This is the part where imagination comes to play or takes a backseat until someone in Hollywood decides that Nidhogg is fit for celluloid and public viewing.

We could theorize on and on about the deeper meanings of single-colored humans stabbing each other into confetti, but what would be the point? Really? This will tell you enough.

So, go buy it. It's good.