Nothing Can Stop Us

Friendship is an important component in everyone’s life, regardless of how lonely you might declare yourself to be. Having someone to confide in you and vice-versa is extremely helpful and beneficial for one’s mind, especially if your life is not exactly great. On the other hand, you must be prepared for the whole thing to end at one point as well, because that’s just how life is in some cases.

Nothing Can Stop Us is a short jam game designed to show you what friendship is and how can it affect your life. It’s not a very complex game from a technical point of view, but it can get you through a full array of emotions over the course of the story. Thus, the main component is dialog, since you have the opportunity to choose your answers at different points in the story.

Speaking of which, the plot revolves around two friends, namely a girl and a boy. They find a nice hill close to home at one point and they decide to make it their special spot where no one else is invited or welcomed. Over the years, the two characters evolve and change their lives one way or the other, and you get to watch all that.

Whenever the two characters are having a conversation, you can actually choose what to respond, and you don’t always play with the same character. Obviously, some answers affect the plot a little bit, or at least the immediate response you receive. It all depends on how well you wish to preserve the friendship over the years. On top of it all, the events are not shown in chronological order, which makes the story a bit tougher to understand at first.

As for the graphics, the artwork is very simple and to the point, not to mention the fact that the background does not change very much over the course of the story. Some objects are added or subtracted every now and again, but the landscape remains more or less the same. There’s a gorgeous soundtrack playing in the background at all times, which makes the experience even more pleasant.

Nothing Can Stop Us can be very powerful if you are at a critical point in your life, but it may just blitz past others without making any kind of impression. Even so, the game is definitely worth a shot if you enjoy intriguing stories and clever video game ideas.