As a critic, I pride myself on playing a wide array of video games. I often go out of my way to seek out new experiences, and I play everything from mindless first-person shooters to hardcore management sims. The main point that I’m making is that I play a lot of video games, and this should give context to what I’m about to say.
Everything is by far the weirdest video game I’ve ever played. I’ve spent hours drinking virtual sodas, I encountered way too many quick-time events in Asura’s Wrath, and I’ve played several of Hidetaka Suehiro’s games. None of those ever had me controlling a sword, allowed me to press a button in order to spawn even more swords, and then using the dedicated dance button to do a bizarre mating ritual starring them. Everything let me do just that. Unique Mind
Everything is a game that could only be from the mind of David OReilly, an Irish artist and filmmaker. He’s probably best known for directing and animating the Adventure Time episode “A Glitch is a Glitch,” which is the only episode of the popular series to not feature 2D animation, and for being the animation director for the video game sequences in the film Her. Everything isn’t his first foray into gaming, as he previously released Mountain in 2014, which is a procedurally generated mountain simulator.
I was lucky enough to spend about 15 minutes chatting with OReilly after checking out Everything, and the game mad...