Allá por 2006 Xbox presento al mundo la que acabaría por convertirse en una de las franquicias más exitosas y reconocibles de la marca: Gears of War. Se trataba de un brutal juego de acción que daría pie a una saga conceptualmente deudora tanto del imaginario de Warhammer 40.000 como de Starship Troopers, que consiguió desarrollar una arrolladora personalidad propia y que sentó las bases de una mecánica que luego copiarían, con mayor o menor fortuna, decenas si no cientos de juegos: los disparos con cobertura desde diversos elementos del escenario tras los cuales nos parapetamos. ¿El punto de partida? La guerra que en planeta Sera libra la humanidad contra los terribles locust, unos seres de aspecto reptiloide y gatillo fácil que, desde las profundidades del mundo, han declarado la guerra a la humanidad.

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“Wake up, Link!” High in his treehouse, a pointy-eared boy named Link is roused by the call of a fairy. He is the only resident of the Kokiri Forest without a winged companion, until Navi bursts into his dreams to tell him that his destiny lies far beyond that sheltered corner of the woods. Thus begins a journey that will lead him to a princess, pit him against a threat determined to plunge the kingdom of Hyrule into darkness and, seven years later, task him with saving a world that has fallen into the clutches of evil.

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Naomi Lautier is 14 years old. Born in 2011 in Paris, she paints as if the world were speaking to her in its own language. There isn’t a single learned gesture in her work, nor any desire to fit into recognizable traditions. Her art springs from elsewhere: it has a direct, almost physical connection with what she sees, what she feels and what she needs to express.

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