Kentucky Route Zero is a game you can’t win. It tells you it’s a tragedy.
0:00 – The most important moment of the game
0:14 – Spoiler warning
0:27 – What is Kentucky Route Zero
1:23 – Kentucky Route Zero on capitalism
4:14 – 1st Technique – Magical Realism
12:06 – 2nd Technique – Choice
22:46 – 3rd Technique – Community
28:25 – The game’s final act
Kentucky Route Zero is one of the best games I played this year, and this video is why.
Actually, it is a game, but it’s really a point and click game, adventure game, visual novel combo. There’s a LOT of reading, but it’s also one of my favorite Nintendo Switch games of 2020. Magical realism, anti-capitalism, and some serious David Lynch vibes make this one of the best games of 2020 for me.
A game ostensibly based in rural Kentucky, you play Conway, on a search for 5 Dogwood Drive. This sends you on a route down the Zero, a mysterious highway in the Mammoth Caves of Kentucky. The game tells you it’s a tragedy and that your strategies are useless. It’s not the kind of game you win. You can’t min-max your way to a good ending.
This is my Kentucky Route Zero review. I played the Nintendo Switch version, so all the of the Kentucky Route Zero gameplay you’re seeing is from the TV Edition.
Included in this video is my cover of a hymn that is included on the Kentucky Route Zero soundtrack. If you’d like to download that yourself, watch all the way to the end for instructions.
MY LINKS
Twitch – https://twitch.tv/matthorton for Tuesday night covers and originals at 7PM ET!
For Instagram, Twitter, Spotify, Apple Music, and more:
https://MattHorton.live
Thanks to the Kentucky Route Zero unofficial Discord for the assistance.
Love Letter icon by Vectors Market and Noun Project.
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