Soapbox: Oh No, I Accidentally Made Animal Crossing Into A Time Capsule Of Misery
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It s fairly safe to say that we were all pretty depressed at the start of 2020, what with all the
gestures at everything , and in March, I was in the same boat. I had just come back from a trip to Boston for PAX, a gaming expo, and the whole COVID thing started happening for real about halfway through the week-long convention. It was weird - everyone suddenly started replacing handshakes with elbow bumps, as if that would stop the spread of a highly contagious disease in a convention centre filled with thousands of people.
Soapbox: Kentucky Route Zero Was a Game Made Specifically For Me
Editor s Note: This article contains some spoilers for Kentucky Route Zero s story.
The music slowly falls away. The camera pulls out. Let me just wipe my face. Are those tears? The horses have been buried and the funeral is over. While this may not have been the closing moment of Kentucky Route Zero, it’s certainly the emotional peak. Those horses meant a lot to that poor town, and as I’ve discovered in the months since I completed the game, they meant a lot to me too. Even now, writing this, just listening to the song that plays in that scene is tearing me up a little bit.