upsetting and enjoyable, dark and beautiful (at least from my early hands-on experience with it). "I wanted to tell a difficult story, but make it entertaining at the same time," he told me. Indeed, the dreamy game world Caballero has created is a delight to behold with its colorful, surreal South American cityscapes. And the puzzles are uniquely challenging. Like Caballero's father, the monster in the game has two sides --  the friendly, loving side, and the dangerous, violent one. And navigating those moods is at the core of the gameplay. To solve the game's puzzles you must learn how to use  Monster's volatile emotions -- both the good and the bad -- to your advantage. Caballero and the development crew at Minority Media has just released a haunting cinematic trailer in advance of the game's launch on Aug. 14. With the help of Montreal Director Alfonso Maiorana, it mixes game footage and live action as it explores Caballero's own experiences trying to live with and escape from his father -- a man he longed to save. Check it out below. As it was with Caballero's father, the boy in the game is searching for a cure for Monster. But Caballero says, in the real world, his father was never cured. "You can never truly cure an addict," he explained. But Caballero said that, ultimately, he doesn't think of "Papo & Yo" as a game about addiction or alcoholism. Instead, he says, "This game is a metaphor about a kid