As you progress through the level, you need to pop certain balloons. The game features a few different worlds, each with their own troubled character (which you need to help) and theme. You have the power to alter the world around you, provided you pop the right balloons. Tip: move it away from sharp objects.īaby and her balloon aren’t the only things you can manage. Controlling the balloon is very simple, just touch the balloon with the touch pad and move it around. It’s also used to unlock certain doors and solve a few puzzles.
Keeping that balloon alive is essential to keeping Baby safe and sane. If she, for some reason, lets go of the balloon, she’ll go into a crying frenzy until you return it to her. If it breaks or pops, that will end the stage and you need to start over. I’m sure it can be interpreted in many different ways (other than Baby crying “Mama” there isn’t a script to this game, it’s all visual), but the way I see it is, is that the balloon is a symbol of her heart. The balloon plays a very important part of the game. Other than holding Baby’s hand, you can control her balloon.
The only other example I can think of is Tearaway. The connection between you and the game is so rarely used, or at least used well. The emotional link between you and Baby grows stronger and stronger through the game and that’s what makes this game so unique. As animated as Baby is, you get an overwhelming need to protect her. I know there’s no mechanic in the game that supports this, but I only really feel much better when I rub Baby’s forehead and whisper I’m sorry, if I accidentally make her trip. When this happens – and this is something that I rarely experience in a game – you feel terrible. Pulling her softly makes her walk really slowly, stretch her arm further and she’ll begin running, but tug too far or too fast and she’ll trip or fall.
Basically, it feels like YOU are the main character guiding Baby to safety and protecting her along the way. In order to move Baby, you need to grab her hand by tapping on the Vita screen, and drag her arm in the direction you want her to move. Murasaki Baby, is an escort game without it actually being the normal escort game. But how is she to find her? She needs her helper, her light in the darkness, her strength – she needs you. Immediately, Baby is terrified of the place, but she’s armed with her purple heart-shaped balloon and is willing to voyage across this doomed dimension in search of her mother. It is a lonely place, filled with darkness and despair. As she exits the safety of her home, she walks into a land of nightmares, a place that only children can see. Her mother is nowhere to be found, so she gets up and decides to look for her. If you have a childhood memory like that, then you’ll immediately identify within yourself the story of Murasaki Baby.īaby, the main character of the game, wakes up in her bedroom alone and afraid. Holding their hand gave me the strength I needed to journey past the thing I was afraid of. I forced my parents to hold my hand and walk me safely to the bathroom and back. Think back to your days as a child, can you remember what you were afraid of? As a child (probably about 6) I was terrified of using the bathroom at night because I believed the taps were possessed by a demon – I kid you not. Facing your fears isn’t something that we ordinarily like to do, at least not alone, and certainly not when you’re a child.
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