After the first five minutes of starting That Dragon, Cancer, my mouth was agape and I had to remember to swallow while I was taking in exactly what was happening on the screen. Very few experiences have left me in this state, opening me to emotional attack and leaving me ready to have my senses assaulted so freely.
That Dragon, Cancer deals with Ryan and Amy Green’s real-life, emotional journey of their son Joel’s fight with cancer. The game itself is a series of vignettes in an origami, abstract world. Although there are characters and animals, none of them carry eyes, giving players the opportunity to project their own images onto the series of canvases the game provides. Given how cancer affects so many of us, directly or indirectly, we all have stories of this condition to share.
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