A unique adventure game with a deep sense of adventure game history, Kentucky Route 0 is a multi-layered American story with deep concerns about debt, capitalism, and social collapse. It’s also an exciting travel tale about a group of companions who can hardly find themselves on an adventure and they know that a better world is possible, if we learn to let go. old paths.
Originally released in Acts that have been spread over the better part of a decade, Kentucky Route 0Its release schedule has tested my patience, but also makes more sense because of its length, as it is almost real-time commentary on the rifts in our society. became increasingly evident throughout the 2010s. Kentucky Route 0 is a great American epic, one that defies description and certainly cannot be satisfactorily summed up in a slide commercial. There are so many moments of lyrical beauty, of great strangeness, of despair and hope, of loss and renewal.
But when I think about America and all the complicated, conflicting feelings I have for this country, admiration and fear simultaneously stirring within me, this is easily the game that says it all. All of that in the most profound and real way. Kentucky Route 0 know that this country exploits and dehumanizes so many of us, uses us and casts us aside. It also knows that the ideal of promise and core equality this nation stands for is worth working together to realize, and it dares, in its own way, to imagine what that might look like. how. It is an American masterpiece.—Carolyn Petit
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