November 6th
…tourist gaze, despite being so deeply embedded in local histories.
“In killing his way up the mafia tower, Lincoln never comes across as more than a tourist in his own city, going through the motions of every other open-world protagonist […] Even though Lincoln’s goal is the destruction of New Bordeaux’s Dixie Mafia rather than climbing through its ranks, any sort of pretense of profundity in his revenge-porn rampage gets lost in the numbing patterns of open-world tedium.” Zooming in closer, these articles look at the individual responses of developers and …
The Little God