over the moon games

The Fall is a combination of an adventure game crossed with a side-scrolling platformer but that description hardly does it justice. It is also very much a puzzler and a story driven narrative that explores several themes throughout the campaign, drawing on elements from science fiction. While it does certain things well it is definitely the plot that serves as the most important aspect and clearly the part of the game that developer Over the Moon Games put most of its effort into. The story begins with a spaceship crashing on an unknown planet. The only obvious survivor is a man wearing a Mark-7 Combat Suit, an exoskeleton that is designed to protect and assist its user. With the pilot apparently severely injured and not responding the suit gives control of its functions to the Autonomous Robotic Interface Device (otherwise known as A.R.I.D.), an artificial intelligence that is programmed to get medical assistance for its host as quickly as possible as the combat suit malfunctions. It’s this central premise the