Can The Medium Explain What’s Beyond?
What lies beyond? It’s a question that’s dominated the human psyche since the dawn of consciousness. What beyond that ridge? That horizon? Or the ultimate, most unanswerable question of all: what lies beyond this mortal plane? What happens when we pass on?
Without answers, hints, or even the faintest notion of an inkling, it’s unsurprising that so much time and effort has been devoted to media exploring death. The entire horror genre and most thrillers directly rely on death as a story element, and games are no different. Resident Evil and Silent Hill started the ball rolling decades ago, and the trend holds up today.