This isn`t The Stanley Parable of 2013, and it`s even harder to define than before.
The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe openly defies traditional attempts to review it. It`s an abstract, convoluted narrative adventure that begs to be described with a long string of intricate, metaphor-laden words, yet constantly subverts attempts to do so; it challenges players to label it, and then paints over the label any time their back is turned. The Stanley Parable is both a game that is excruciatingly self-aware and is not a game that ponders, `If I am not, then what am I?`
Others have managed to capture the essence of The Stanley Parable more eloquently than I`ll be able to, but I`ve been assigned the dubious task of reviewing it. My immediate advice? Don`t read this, or any other review. If you`re even remotely interested in what The Stanley Parable could offer you, go and play it; just be prepared to have your expectations consistently proven wrong. Even if you played the original game, und...
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