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Here’s what playing this game five years later made me realize: Max’s choices were never really the ones that mattered when it came to moving the story forward, or the wider world of Arcadia Bay.
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It’s always been silly to me when people pretend the Internet and Real Life are different things. People find their identity online. People start and end their careers online. People get hurt online. People hurt other people online. It’s as…
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I loved Observation’s use of constraint and subversion to create a new iteration on a science-fiction/horror story we’ve all heard before.
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ALL SEEDS WANT TO GROW.
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In both the game and in reality, my mind turns around the word “world.” A world of horror―not a closet of horror, nor a bedroom or sink.
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If there’s one thing I really didn’t like about the game, something that elevates my distaste from mere indifference, it’s the game’s insistence on putting a strong gate between chapters of the story.
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I’ve been thinking about Paradise Killer, the latest game from Kaizen Game Works and publisher Fellow Traveller.
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The banality through which the upper class sees the lower is an eye-opening realization to have, and the more the game treats an obviously monstrous system as just the way things are, as the world working as it’s intended, the…
No Escape
Digital Culture and its Discontents