maize

Maize is one of the most difficult games to explain to someone else who has never played it. It is essentially a first-person adventure game with a touch of Monty Python-inspired comedy. Following a misunderstanding between a group of researchers and government officials, a crop of sentient corn is created and it is your job to discover exactly how this happened and what the now intelligent plant-life might be planning. To help you along the way, you are assisted by a talking teddy bear that has a heavy Russian accent. If all of this seems a bit surreal that is entirely by design. Maize is a game that focuses on humor more than anything else. Vladdy, your teddy companion, has some incredibly witty dialogue and the rest of the rather absurd humor hits the mark more than it misses throughout the three to four hours that it will take you to complete it. Although described as an adventure game, it would be perhaps more accurate to classify this title as