Flies Time is a short meditation on the meaning of life

I didn’t expect a short game about flies that make me emotional. But when I finished Time fliesI almost cry.

Time flies Initially it looks very ridiculous. You play the role of a small loud fly that you should try to accomplish a list of a bucket before that, well, kicking the bucket, which happens within seconds. The tasks are mysterious, with titles such as “Just Roll with It” or “Meet or Most Your Most”, the goal of the game is to compress around each level, and generally cause completion of tasks, and end the entire phase bucket list to move to the next stage. (Of course, the last task of each list involves death in some way.)

Task titles are usually a joke or pungent, and a lot of fun finds things about levels and tampering with them to see if they are appropriate. A complete roll of toilet paper complements the “just roll with it” task. You “meet your biggest fans” by running a fan.

When you wander from one place to another, things remain in zooming and guilt just a small spot. When you approach something important, the game will grow up so that you can jump more easily on the toilet paper roll or seize the fan series. The most strict perspectives are also the idea that you interact with something that is part of your goals list.

One part twisted of Time fliesYou choose the time your life takes by choosing the country you are. Depending on the WHO data (WHO), the game translates real information about the average life expectancy to seconds to determine the life of your small fly. The US choice gave me an average life expectancy of 76.4 seconds, but I usually said that I was in Japan, which gave me 84.5 seconds relatively long. Since it is very short, every second is concerned – although there is a smart way to give yourself a few seconds to explore levels.

Once I got the suspension of things, I found myself wandering in the four stages of the game to know the tasks of the bulldozers and in the end I all connected them together, and I finished it after a few hours. As the game continued, I felt that some of the tasks became more honest, even if the activities to accomplish them are still completely ridiculous. Do we not all aspire to “combine people” (pushing a bust towards another person with a wheelchair to make them accept), “spending time with the family” (sitting on a pile of garbage with other flies), and “thinking about your life” (flying to a mirror world upside down)?

Perhaps it is because I am a new father and I am a little softer now. But when I offered my wife the entire game – which, if you know what she is doing, you can do it in just a few minutes – we suffocated on the sofa. Even a little fly can have a big life.

^{Time flies Available is now available on Nintendo Switch, PC and PlayStation.}