Reading Ian Bogost's "Perpetual Adolescence: The Fullbright Company’s Gone Home", LA Review of Books
3This is a reading of someone else's article with my commentary, not a full video essay. The visuals are just the text of the article as I read it, you can kind of treat this as a podcast with extra steps if you like.
This year Gone Home turns a full decade old, and while its impact on the gaming world is undeniable it's not a game that is above criticism. In the whirlwind of exhausting pre-Gamergate discourse surrounding the game, Ian Bogost's review in the LA Review of Books stood out in my memory because it threaded the needle of acknowledging that the game was a representation win and a leap forward in the world of gaming while pushing back against some of the overwhelming praise of the game by illustrating that the actual plot still falls well short of what would be expected in the world of fiction.
Link to the article: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/perpetual-adolescence-the-fullbright-companys-gone-home/
The clicking noise you hear throughout is the dog clicker I use to help me editing, if you hear it that means its a part I thought I would edit out while recording but in editing decided to leave in. I thought it was cute but if the sound bothers you, let me know in the comments and I'll make sure to edit them all out next time.
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