Frictionless Ice: While it doesn't impede the player's walking, some of the ice in the final level is too thick and reflective to be able to grapple on it, meaning the player has to find alternate ways of advancing.Forbidden Zone: The caves beneath the Village, which the villagers refuse to go near.Floating Platforms: You will be seeing a lot of these.Floating Continent/ World in the Sky: The Strays' village could be an example of either if you move the camera down you can glimpse large, forested landmasses below, but it's not clear whether these are an actual ground or simply other, larger floating continents.First-Person Ghost: The only parts of the protagonist's body we ever see are his arms.Down in the Dumps: The Village is built of trash from Earth, which presumably arrived via the same garbage disposal pad as the player.Deus Exit Machina: At one point of the game, your rocket boots are disabled by a big fall, and you can't use them until you find some tools to repair them.When they do, it's at the say time that they find a sentence-long message - and are outright told what it translates to, making it a Rosetta Stone, a starting point for translation. Cypher Language: Text written in the language of the Strays can be found, even before the player learns about them.Crate Expectations: There are some crates lying around, then, at the beginning of the Ice Cave, there are a lot of them, floating then later falling.Checkpoint Starvation: While the game is generally fairly generous with its placement of checkpoints, the lack of any during the infamous stalactite part of the Ice Caves can lead to much frustration.Bottomless Pits: Pretty much everwhere, but you'll respawn on the previous platform anyway if you do fall.Rather than having to directly fight it in any way, you're supposed to sneak past it by exploiting the fact that it can only see you when you're moving. Boss Battle: The game has only one singular enemy in it, and it's a giant centipede-like creature with a giant eye that you meet at the end of Chasms.Blackout Basement: The third level, the Chasms, where the player has to use their grapple power on various glowing plants to temporarily light their way. ![]() ![]() All of the Other Reindeer: Maddie feels ostracised from the others in the village, as they are resistant to change whereas she embraces it.Along his journey, the unnamed protagonist journeys through a variety of gorgeous locales and meets various characters who help him out. Following Fred's tracks, he finds himself in a mysterious other world full of blue crystals and populated by strange frog people. The story is told through a Framing Device of a father recounting to his daughter an adventure he had as a child, when he went looking for his missing uncle Fred. ![]() A Story About My Uncle is a non-violent, first-person adventure game from Gone North Games, released on Steam in May 2014.
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