Category: Review (video game)

• The Last of Us: An Elegy (or, Why Video Games Are Literature)

  

  Somehow, I went over 7 years without having The Last of Us spoiled for me. I grew up in a Nintendo (and sometimes Xbox) household – I never had a PlayStation, but I always had a list of PlayStation exclusives I couldn’t wait to play one day. The Last of Us was at the top…

  Morgan Rush

  February 17, 2021

  Review, Review (video game)

  literature, narrative design, new literature, playstation, rpg, storytelling, the last of us, tlou, tlou2, video game, video game literature, video game stories

• Kentucky Route Zero: “A Bittersweet Tragedy.”

  

  I first heard about Cardboard Computer’s Kentucky Route Zero at the Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt exhibition at the V&A in London. Compared to Le Blanc Seing, the game caught my eye, a surrealistic piece, and a surrealistic piece I got. Kentucky Route Zero is just that: a piece, a string of experiences, separate and yet so, so…

  Morgan Rush

  March 1, 2020

  Review, Review (video game)

  art, art game, game, gamer, gaming, indie game, Kentucky route zero, krz, rpg, video game