BINARY DOMAIN
A burly cover shooter with an infectious central gameplay loop
Have you heard of Sisyphus? I bet you have. He’s the lad from Greek mythology who twice cheated death, so Zeus, king of the gods and occasional horny swan, cursed him to repeatedly roll a big rock up a hill for all eternity. Every time he reached the top, down the rock would roll back down and Sisyphus would start again. Which is bad. But what if, let’s suppose, Sisyphus secretly loved rolling rocks? What if rolling rocks up hills, however repetitive, was as fun as shooting robots in Binary Domain? What then, Zeus?
It’s perhaps not a question that’s troubled classical scholars, but it’s relevant here. Because my memory of is vague and hallucinatory, like something from a Michel is simply magnificent. If Zeus cursed me to shoot olive robots in neo-Tokyo for the rest of time, only for a fresh dropship of enemies to arrive at the end of every level, I’d pretend to be sad so he didn’t find a more upsetting punishment.
