These aren’t just charming distractions from the game’s disturbing main plot, however, as they flesh out SALLY FACE’s lore through engaging gameplay mechanics in place of any boring exposition dumps. Take Sal’s “Super Gear Boy” for example: a spirit-hunting peripheral you’ll use to locate and communicate with spectres that also contains its own Game Boy-inspired minigames. And there’s plenty of spooky content to enjoy here: red-eyed demons, potentially extraterrestrial senior citizens, and an entire cast of ghostly entities, just to name a few.Īs with most adventure titles, there are appropriately challenging puzzles in SALLY FACE to test your abilities of deduction, though these extend to elements some may gloss over entirely. This only aids in enveloping you in Sal’s world, and when the horror hits, it’s all the more impactful for it. Speaking of visuals, SALLY FACE is absolutely gorgeous to look at with smooth animation and vibrant colours. As with that series, SALLY FACE takes a relatively mundane slice-of-life and injects it with compelling, otherworldly drama. He cites classic ‘90s cartoons such as DOUG, REN & STIMPY, and ROCKO’S MODERN LIFE as influences, though the game is also very reminiscent of MTV’s LIQUID TELEVISION block of programming that included AEON FLUX, THE MAXX – and perhaps the most relevant here – Eric Fogel’s THE HEAD. Gabry’s unique artistic vision is wound into every fabric of SALLY FACE, having done all of the game’s artwork, music, programming and writing himself. What begins as a relatively innocent investigation by Sal and Larry into uncovering the truth behind the recently murdered tenant quickly becomes a supernatural-charged adventure spanning several years and perceived planes of existence. After Sal and his single father move into an apartment building that’s host to a fresh and grisly murder, he quickly befriends the charming metalhead Larry, son of the building’s janitor and an all-around rad guy. SALLY FACE follows the young Sal “Sally Face” Fisher, a boy who sports a prosthetic mask over his disfigured face.
Two years later, developer Steve Gabry has made the complete experience available on the go with a wonderfully faithful port for the Nintendo Switch console.
#SALLY FACE GAME PLOT PORTABLE#
If you’re a computer gamer, you may already be familiar with developer Portable Moose’s SALLY FACE, a five-part episodic initially released for Windows and Mac beginning in 2016 and concluding in 2019.
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