Whether they fail at telling big ones ( Shadow Of Mordor) or succeed brilliantly at telling small ones (the aforementioned Edith Finch), video games present creators with a rare opportunity to tell deep, dimensional stories that feel like just a goof. Look, I'm fascinated by games that try to tell a real story. Or that can take a serious issue like gentrification in Los Angeles and turn it into a giant robot boss fight at Griffith Observatory AND still make its point about slacker redemption, personal sacrifice and forgiveness. There's just not enough art these days focused on raccoon conspiracy theories, or the plight of love-sick rabbit farmers. And life - this sanitized, focus-grouped, advertorial life we all live most of the time - is woefully short on the bizarre. that can take a serious issue like gentrification in Los Angeles and turn it into a giant robot boss fight at Griffith Observatory AND still make its point about slacker redemption, personal sacrifice and forgiveness. They brought Salt and Pepper back together after Salt became obsessed with a bird. BK insists his holes helped Helen the Ranger get rid of all the snakes in the park (along with everything else). Gameplay is a series of flashbacks, all hole-centric, explaining how everyone ended up in the hole, what they lost.

Lore, worldbuilding detail and a lot of really good, deadpan comedy can be found in the Trashopedia (an end-of-level accounting of everything the hole has swallowed, complete with pitch-perfect, occasionally hilarious item descriptions). The rest of the story (minus the final climax) takes place at the bottom of the hole, with all of the swallowed townsfolk gathered around a campfire, and Mira trying to explain to BK why he's the bad guy in this story and BK trying to explain why he's the victim. By being such a good employee, he has won a remote-controlled quad-copter (again, stay with me), which Mira smashes in a rage. Spoiler alert: He's kind of a jerk.Īt the beginning of the game, we've already arrived more or less at the end.

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