The long-awaited Act IV of Kentucky Route Zero has been released and now so has our discussion about it.
It’s a game about being lost. With each new episode KR0 seems to find a new way to express this both thematically and structurally. While Act IV may be the most constrained episode geographically, it also feels like it is also the most expansive with narrative crafting options.
It strange coming back to continue a game after letting it lie two years fallow. I remember almost everything that happened previously, while my co-hosts struggled with the details. In some ways both approaches worked to appreciate the game.
There’s so much in Kentucky Route Zero that with an hour and a half we really only touched upon the main points of just this episode. That astonishes me. It astonishes me that this game still astonishes me all these years later.
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“Now, I know what you’re going to ask, so I’m going to answer. Yes, I’m sure they’re all true. I personally believe a story gets more true as its tossed around from brain to brain and the whole community brings their insight to bear on the brutal facts of experience.”