Re: Kentucky Route Zero

[rynling]

Wow, I um. I do not like this game.

Act V (which functions as something like an epilogue) was deeply offensive to me. I'm conflicted about this, because the earlier bits of the game showed such incredible promise.

I feel shitty about launching a sustained critique of a game that was obviously made with love by a small team; but, on the other hand, I don't think one rando picking apart the game on their personal blog is going to stand against multiple Google pages of big-name reviewers saying that this is the most important game of the decade.

So I do want to get into this, but it's going to be a project. Maybe I'll start with what bothered me about Act V and work my way backwards.

Comments

[renegadefolkhero]

I made a point of waiting until the entire game was released before I looked into this one. I don't think I'll play it but I would definitely read your take on it.

[rynling]

I have to admit that it's been a lot more satisfying for me to read about the game than to actually play it. If I could go back in time, the one thing I would tell my past self is to wait until it goes on sale. No major paradoxes would be created, and I would have been marginally less frustrated with the world during the past week or two.