The Shining Lie
May 12, 2017 3:31 AM   Subscribe

 
Good lord. I'm not a video gamer, like, not at all. (I quit videogames after being fired from a job for not showing up for 2 days because of a 56 hour Sonic The Hedgehog binge. Don't ask me about it; it was ugly.) But this article makes me want to play this game.
posted by hippybear at 3:44 AM on May 12, 2017 [4 favorites]


whoa. if the gaming experience is 1/5 as good as that evocative article, sign me up!
posted by lalochezia at 3:44 AM on May 12, 2017


The twist ending of the game is that your character decides to make a video game about American folklore... And it's callled Polybius.
posted by ejs at 5:12 AM on May 12, 2017


I would hang up that picture of the farmer skeleton and the pears as art, if only it didn't have the menu selection.
posted by FirstMateKate at 5:16 AM on May 12, 2017 [3 favorites]


FirstMateKate, how about as a sticker?
posted by ursus_comiter at 8:19 AM on May 12, 2017 [2 favorites]


omg!!! it doesn't have the background but that is so LOVELY. very my aesthetic, spooky and quaint. wonderful.
posted by FirstMateKate at 9:19 AM on May 12, 2017


i have never been this hype about a game ever and i only read one article
posted by WidgetAlley at 10:01 AM on May 12, 2017


I haven't played a video game in years. The last time, it was an unfinished NetHack run.

This made me want to play. This looks like totally my... thing.
posted by runcifex at 10:40 AM on May 12, 2017


Johnnemann Nordhagen is, incidentally, just an incredibly nice and helpful guy, and I really hope that Where the Water Tastes Like Wine does well. And the writing talent in that disclosure at the end of the article is tremendous.
posted by running order squabble fest at 11:33 AM on May 14, 2017


Wow, great article. Thanks for that
posted by Richnou at 6:46 AM on May 16, 2017


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