"Waiting for a partner."
It's a phrase you'll see repeated over and over again in Tale of Tales' mouthful of a mind-boggler, Bientôt l'été, and whether intentional or not I think it works on multiple levels. On one hand, it's a core part of the unabashedly artsy game's structure, in which you wander a desolate beach whose surroundings best resemble what would happen if the Aurora Borealis and some sci-fi re-imagining of outer space got into a gnarly fender-bender. The point of all the slow-paced pacing? To collect phrases from the film adaptation of French novelist Marguerite Duras' exceedingly influential Moderato Cantabile. Then you use them in a multiplayer, win-condition-free, er, chess match.
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