SCOTT ALSWORTH suggests that video games have a lot to learn the rich tradition of Marxist theatre
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Video Games Monitor with Scott Alsworth: January 3, 2023
When the best of intentions pave the road to boredom
[Infinite Fall]
ANDY HEDGECOCK is enthralled by a collection of South Korean ghost stories where human behaviour is as chilling as any spectral activity
MARY CONWAY revels in the macabre waiting game of Strindberg’s forensic dissection of a loveless ruling-class marriage
DAVID YEARSLEY examines the soundtrack and filmic predecessors of the execrable Melania
SIMON PARSONS is charmed by a hilarious tender show that will open the eyes to the delights and possibilities of puppetry
ALAN McGUIRE welcomes the complete poems of Seamus Heaney for the unmistakeable memory of colonialism that they carry
Night in the Woods
Infinite Fall (PC / Mac / Playstation 4 / Xbox One / Nintendo Switch / iOS)
NIGHT in the Woods is one of those games that seems to insist the world’s gone mad.
Not because you find yourself in the shoes of a pansexual cat with spaghetti legs who pokes severed arms with sticks for fun. And not because non-anthropomorphic animals aren’t triggering an existential crisis (Mr Wharton the pigeon is apparently quite unfazed by ordinary pigeons on the street).
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