Some games have a premise too outrageous to be ignored. A game that centers around talking corn is definitely one of them. Watch the debut trailer for Maize the Game below:
“Maize is a first-person adventure game about what happens when two scientists misinterpret a memo from the U.S. Government and create sentient corn. And that last sentence is pretty much the least ridiculous thing about the game,” reads the trailer’s YouTube description.
In a press release, Maize is described as “an absurdist, first-person adventure with a cornucopia of highbrow puzzles to solve, talking oddities to meet, and mysteries to be harvested.”
Well, when talking corn is your guidepost, where else is there to go but solving the mystery of why these chatty critters exist? I’m not sure what qualifies as a “highbrow puzzle,” though. Sudoku? They have that in the New York Times, right? Crossword puzzles where every answer is an obscure film reference? Tetris but with your eyebrows raised?
Maize promises to include “a few…colorful friends along the way, including a grumpy Russian knock-off of the most technologically advanced toy ever created: Teddy Ruxpin.” Players will be able to explore the farm around them and piece together the tale behind the game as well as poking around the underground research facility, always a recipe for success.
The game’s tone mixes “elements of Monty Python and the funnier episodes of the X-Files,” because of course it does. That actually sounds like a pretty good mix. Fingers crossed for less farting than Monty Python, though. It’s beans that make you toot it, not corn, right?
Maize comes from Finish Line Games , and if you’re hoping that the official website gives you more deets, you’re sadly mistaken. It does showcase some strikingly pretty screenshots, though.
Maize arrives on PC this fall. Final Fantasy who again?
