Category Archives: Video Games

Harvest Moon: Extreme Ethical Farmer Edition Pt. 3

Posted on 07/03/2013 by kunzelman

Do I have a chicken yet? Only watching the video will reveal the truth. The Flower Festival happens in this video and the priest refuses to dance with me. I also talk about Marx’s analysis of the working day.

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Playing the Canon on Dragon Quest

Posted on 06/28/2013 by kunzelman

or Dragon Warrior as I knew it when I played the game as a wee child in the mid-1990s. If you aren’t aware of Playing the Canon, it is a blog where Joel Newman is playing through the “canon” of video games. If … Continue reading →

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Harvest Moon: Extreme Ethical Farmer Edition – Part 2

Posted on 06/26/2013 by kunzelman

This is the second part of my Harvest Moon video series where I try to be an ethical farming child. Not much happens in this episode: I get enthused about fishing before I think about the fact that fishing is totally fucked … Continue reading →

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Harvest Moon: Extreme Ethical Farmer Edition – Part 1

Posted on 06/24/2013 by kunzelman

So I recorded my first Let’s Play today. A little while ago I asked if Harvest Moon was vegan on twitter in a sort of half-serious way. Line Hollis said that it might be, so I thought that the only thing I … Continue reading →

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Responding to Sparky Clarkson Responding to Remember Me

Posted on 06/20/2013 by kunzelman

A couple days ago Sparky Clarkson posted this great analysis of Remember Me that immediately generated an emphatic “nuh uh!” like I was some super whiny 90s baby with a huge chip on my shoulder about video games and my oh-so-precious … Continue reading →

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On The Last of Us

Posted on 06/18/2013 by kunzelman

This post contains spoilers for The Last of Us. 1.  The Last of Us treads the familiar ground of a middle-aged white man making his way through the world. There are no surprises here. 2. I come back to this question all … Continue reading →

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Line Hollis on Games and Narrative

Posted on 06/17/2013 by kunzelman

Line Hollis has a new post up about “story blindness” (I don’t think I like the term much). A sample: I’ve got a particular love for stories that build up or hint at an elaborate, vivid world, then dissolve into … Continue reading →

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Released: Resolving Conflict

Posted on 06/10/2013 by kunzelman

New game, this time with Tara Ogaick, called Resolving Conflict by Acquiescing to the Overwhelming Violence of Time. I think it is best to play the game with headphones on. We created it for the “Your Enemies Don’t Have To … Continue reading →

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Room of 1000 Snakes

Posted on 06/07/2013 by kunzelman

Go here and play Room of 1000 Snakes.  Play it with headphones on. It is the best game I have played in a very long time. When the snakes appeared I just started laughing uncontrollably. Ben Esposito and Yuliy made this.

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The Most Wonderful Part of Remember Me

Posted on 06/06/2013 by kunzelman

Remember Me came out earlier this week and I marathon’d it over the last two days. I don’t have a good read on the final product–my short review is that the first third of the game is amazing and it really … Continue reading →

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