March 5th
…Love Across the Fourth Wall | Haywire Magazine Eric Cline finds heady themes of death, purpose, and reality in a seemingly silly self-referential crossover game with Namco and Homestuck characters.
“Though it gleefully acknowledges its status as a work of fiction, Namco High avoids the pitfalls of shallow meta commentary by inviting the player to consider the similarities between the game world and their own. The point is not the acknowledgement of artifice, but the blurring of any meaningful distinction from the real.” This one really is a hall-of-famer.
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