The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit review – poignant pipe dreams
https://www.theguardian.com/games/2018/jun/28/the-awesome-adventures-of-captain-spirit-review
PS4, Xbox One, PC; Dontnod/Square EnixThis small-scale game, in which you play a child roaming his house, shows how imagination makes the mundane magical
The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit is a short game about mundane things that are imbued with significance by the mind of a child. We play as Chris, a lonely boy with an active imagination and a drunk for a father. Dressed up in a face-paint mask and a costume assembled from cardboard and spray-paint, he is immersed in a superhero fantasy that gives him strength, bravery and telekinetic powers; this being a video game, you wonder whether those powers might turn out to be more than an eight-year-old’s fabrication.