@“captain”#p50922 I finished it two days after I made my initial post but haven‘t had time to comment. The first post I made sounds overly negative—I don’t begrudge Kentucky Route Zero anything, it's a unique video game experience, made with integrity. I appreciate the way it continues over its five episodes to change its structure and experiment with text interaction—it never falls into a rut, really, save for the narrative one I mentioned in my earlier post.
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There's a moment in Act IV when the dialogue window splits in half and you get to read two characters' thoughts/stories simultaneously—which is actually _four_ stories as the two dialogue windows are further subdivided by normal and italic text—which idk others might feel is too much of a gimmick but I enjoyed the fractured tangled-knot-like reading experience.
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Act V is a fitting enough ending for the story. It doesn't drastically change anything but it does represent a point of ||moving on|| for the characters, which I suppose emphasis on the depressive pull of personal history is what I was getting a little weary of earlier. The ||song at the end|| is a supremely beautiful piece of work and a great point to end on. The music in the game is very good, at least as I have listened to it outside the context of the game—I didn't play the game with headphones and therefore had to listen to it past the obnoxious hum of my apartment's refrigerator and other background noise. Headphones would have been better!
Act V contains a joke
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I laughed