The Twitter account @PeterMolydeux, a spoof of pretentious game designer Peter Molyneux (Fable, Black & White), is full of some really entertaining ideas and even a few genuinely good ones about game design. I'm starting to think, however, that Mr. Molydeux is less of a comedian and more like a really scary guy who genuinely believes in everything he tweets. Case in point: the trailer for Believe.

Obviously a play off of the real Peter Molyneux's aborted project Milo (and "aborted" is definitely the best word to describe it), Believe is about making a kid in a wheelchair cry. Or, more accurately, it's about what gamers gave up by not supporting Milo, which is in turn a game about a creepy kid whom you interact with via Microsoft's Kinect and the sort of thing only a childless spinster would love to own.

Personally, I don't think abandoning Milo at the carnival to be raised by sideshow freaks was a big loss, and I actually support the "notgame" movement forewarded chiefly by Tale of Tales, the development studio behind The Path and The Endless Forest. So there are some really pretentious games that I do enjoy, and I don't actually know why I hated the whole Milo concept. Perhaps it's Peter Molyneux's constant hyperbole and hype-speech that preludes every new Lionhead game, followed by the inevitable failure of each game to live up to it; or maybe I just don't like children. Whatever it is, Believe is probably a good place to start analyzing it.