I remember coming home from work at sbux the day act III came out and being surprised by a big patch downloading
That was before the game lodged itself as a permanent hum in my brain
You’ve just got to make choices and own them. You think I was born this foxy? I came off the assembly line about a half-foot shorter, and all gray. No eyes. They were going to have us clearing out the old mine. Doesn’t matter what you look like under all that rock and water: a bunch of gray shadows shoveling and hammering invisibly at the walls, draining the tunnels. Johnny found some gear — an old tape player. We hid away in an underwater cave and listened to it over and over, and we knew we weren’t miners. We slipped out onto the road, just these two featureless shadows, and ever since that night we’ve been detailing. Coloring in. Specifying.
I know I played part 1… I think I played part 2. I remember the later stuff I played being way more engaging than the earlier stuff, but all is vague. My overall impression was that it was clever but just slightly too dry. But I always got a huge kick out of the little interstitial bonus things they would put out between episodes, like the phone tree you could actually call, and the rad public access style show they recorded. Perhaps it’s time to replay the early stuff and just go all the way with it.
Yeah I just checked and I played 2 hours of this in 2015. A replay is probably warranted but it’s gonna feel like a slog until I get to stuff I haven’t seen.
You know how it’s a totally valid experience to watch The Return without a rewatch of Twin Peaks? I would just start Act III and see if the loose recollection suits you.
The real question is… when I put this into the big “played video games” excel spreadsheet on my computer… do I list it as a 2013 game… or a 2020 game!?
