The Good Life, Sunset Overdrive, & the Challenges of Self-Awareness

There are some great examples of postmodernist self-awareness in video games. Too often, though, the attempts at cleverness fall short. The self-awareness fails to support anything in the story beyond itself, or jokes are made to make us apologists for shortcomings. Some might argue that such criticisms are invalid – that those traits are the direct result of a clear directorial vision – but that feels like an excuse to not take full advantage of the creative toolkit. I’m in mind of this because of The Good Life, Swery’s recent absurdist slice-of-life RPG. It’s a curious little game where, as […]

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The Good Life, Sunset Overdrive, & the Challenges of Self-Awareness

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