Captain Spirit is heavy-handed with its themes, too after seeing Chris’s father’s copious empty beer cans at breakfast and watching him reach into the cupboard for a bottle of whiskey to watch the game with, I didn’t need the partially painted-over “WINO” graffiti on the side of the house to get the message that he has a drinking problem.īut despite this over-earnestness – and partly because of it – Captain Spirit got an emotional raise out of me. There is some awkwardness in the delivery: it is obvious that the actors all recorded their lines in separate booths rather than responding to each others’ performances. The cast is small – just Chris, his dad, and one supporting character, plus the various toys and monsters that Chris invents.
Sweet and earnest … The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit. Exploring their home, we discover things about Chris and his dad through the artefacts of everyday life: documents and photos stashed in the garage, hidden report cards, toys and old trophies and books on the shelves. A junkpile in his yard becomes a maze concealing treasure the water-heater in the dark utility room becomes a monster to overcome after clearing away his father’s beer cans, he uses them for snowball target practice. Dressed up in a face-paint mask and a costume assembled from cardboard and spray-paint, he is immersed in a superhero fantasy that gives him strength, bravery and telekinetic powers this being a video game, you wonder whether those powers might turn out to be more than an eight-year-old’s fabrication.Ĭhris’s imagination takes him on adventures around his rather sad little house on a sunlit, snowy Saturday morning, while his father slowly passes out in front of the TV. We play as Chris, a lonely boy with an active imagination and a drunk for a father. T he Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit is a short game about mundane things that are imbued with significance by the mind of a child.
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