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Despelote review
Despelote's creators tell a remarkable, pseudo-autobiographical tale about football and Ecuador - but also one about the act of remembering.
One of the several things Despelote makes for such a wonderful ode to is simply the nature of being a kid, in its sporadic bursts of radical freedom - to roam a vast park, say, and hop feverishly between conversational non sequiturs with friends - dotted with those moments of sudden regimentation we all remember. Image credit: Panic / Eurogamer This is where Despelote's second layer comes in, as Cordero effectively turns the lens on himself and the rest of the game's very small development team - Sebastián Valbuena as co-creator, plus producer Gabe Cuzzillo, sound designer Ian Berman, and Programmer Niall Tessier-Lavigne. And all that background, captured visually with such an extraordinarily evocative style - behind the fuzz of Despelote's Quito is a series of real photographs, scanned in to form the game's environment - is as much an emphasis of Ecuador's continued economic turmoil, the nascent worries of its citizens, as it is a tale of captivation, celebration and joy.
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