The Checkout Counter #3
January 2023
- gaslight is—unsurprisingly—a great psychological thriller.
- the archivist and the revolution is an interactive fiction piece set in a postwar world, where the titular archivist unravels data stored in DNA strands. paints an incredibly vivid and desperate setting with its relatively short playtime.
- i watched a lot of middling movies this month (that’s on me), so le havre’s rich visuals and simple story were a breath of fresh air. movies with film grain! movies with deliberate colors and framing! whoa!
- i’ve been doing work and making things with fotocopiadora’s world exit playing in the background.
- whatever i could say about pentiment has already been said by others. so clearly a passion project by a small, dedicated team, it’s a game that'll be rattling around my brain for a while. normal 16th century life is treated with an incredible amount of care and sincerity, particularly in the way it addresses the time’s high mortality rates and the grief that comes with it. there's a hail mary minigame! there's monk sex! there's a devastating twist that knocked me on my ass! video games are good!
Abridged
- gaslight, thriller/mystery film
- the archivist and the revolution, interactive dystopian fiction
- le havre, drama/comedy film
- world exit, experimental/ambient album
- pentiment, narrative adventure game
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