Gregor Samsa está de vuelta en “Metamorphosis” | Ovid Works & All in! Games [Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One]

“Metamorphosis” refashions Kafka’s most famous tale, about a man who wakes up to discover that he has been transformed into an insect, into a sprightly puzzle-platformer that made me laugh on several occasions.

Unlike the novella on which he’s based, the Gregor Samsa of the game does not wake to find himself with a carapace and twitchy little legs in the apartment he shares with his family. Rather, he awakens to a hangover and is unsure at first where he is until he recognizes the familiar sight of his friend Josef K.'s lodgings. (Yes, that Josef K. — the much put-upon protagonist of Kafka’s unfinished novel “The Trial.”) Evidently, the two had spent the previous night celebrating Josef’s birthday.

Even with his aching head, Gregor is in good spirits when he gets up with the intention of saying goodbye to his friend before heading off to work. But after opening the door of the guest room, he emerges into an unfamiliar hallway, flanked by photographs that jog his memories. Curiously, as he passes, the people in them acquire insectlike characteristics. At the end of the hall, Gregor finds himself standing before a door, but when he opens it, he discovers that the room’s furnishings dwarf him in size. Unable to grasp the severity of the situation, Gregor tells himself that his friend must have orchestrated an elaborate prank [..] | The Washington Post

A surreal adventure inspired by the curious imagination of Franz Kafka.

Metamorphosis is a first person puzzle platforming adventure set in a surrealist world where your newfound abilities are your last and only hope for redemption.

Play as Gregor, who wakes up as a tiny bug, and set out on an extraordinary journey to unravel the mystery of your transformation.

You wake up one morning to find that you are rather inconveniently transforming into a tiny bug, while your friend Joseph is being arrested for reasons unknown. He can’t recognize you like this!

To save him and to find the answers you seek, you must embark on a perilous journey through a twisted and unfamiliar world. | All in! Games

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