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What Remains of Edith Finch
Jan. 19th, 2023 08:00 amWhat Remains of Edith Finch
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The guys from the Dark Souls podcast did an episode about What Remains of Edith Finch! The podcast episode is very good, so I sat down and replayed the game last night. It was just as weird and fun as I remembered.
One of the things I did this past summer after the "autistic freakshow" incident on Twitter was to delete a whole bunch of things online, including an entire blog where I used to post essays on video games from 2016 to 2018. I remember writing about What Remains of Edith Finch, and I was curious what my thoughts were when the game was first released in 2017. The writing is a little cringe to me now, but here's what I said...
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Reflecting on What Remains of Edith Finch five years later, I would say exactly what the Dark Souls podcast guys said: I'm afraid that the Wes Anderson style of twee humor might not land the same way in a social media hellscape where people build clout by declaiming that such-and-such piece of progressive media is "insensitive" or "in poor taste." What Remains of Edith Finch is a game that treats the twinned subjects of death and mental illness in a way that celebrates the joys of being alive, and I'm not sure that particular multilayered tone would necessarily survive the black-or-white mentality of Twitter.
Still, I love this game, and I appreciate it even more now that I've had more personal experience with grief. I wouldn't go as far as to say that What Remains of Edith Finch is uplifting, but being able to experience a work of art like this totally improved my mood and reignited my creative motivation.
https://www.watchoutforfireballs.com/382
The guys from the Dark Souls podcast did an episode about What Remains of Edith Finch! The podcast episode is very good, so I sat down and replayed the game last night. It was just as weird and fun as I remembered.
One of the things I did this past summer after the "autistic freakshow" incident on Twitter was to delete a whole bunch of things online, including an entire blog where I used to post essays on video games from 2016 to 2018. I remember writing about What Remains of Edith Finch, and I was curious what my thoughts were when the game was first released in 2017. The writing is a little cringe to me now, but here's what I said...
( Read more... )
Reflecting on What Remains of Edith Finch five years later, I would say exactly what the Dark Souls podcast guys said: I'm afraid that the Wes Anderson style of twee humor might not land the same way in a social media hellscape where people build clout by declaiming that such-and-such piece of progressive media is "insensitive" or "in poor taste." What Remains of Edith Finch is a game that treats the twinned subjects of death and mental illness in a way that celebrates the joys of being alive, and I'm not sure that particular multilayered tone would necessarily survive the black-or-white mentality of Twitter.
Still, I love this game, and I appreciate it even more now that I've had more personal experience with grief. I wouldn't go as far as to say that What Remains of Edith Finch is uplifting, but being able to experience a work of art like this totally improved my mood and reignited my creative motivation.
