The Weirdness of Kentucky Route Zero at Josh Haas's Web Log
Kentucky Route Zero ( KR0 for short) in the context of the first Trump-Clinton debate. It’s relevant to that because it’s a tour through coal-country America, and it engages with the desolation there that’s fueling Trump’s support. As a portrait of the region, it’s a Picasso or maybe a Goya, not a Velázquez. It has moments where it approaches documentary realism, but it mostly traverses an imaginary landscape reflecting its creators’ perceptions, inspired by their real-life travels in Kentucky. KR0’s medium is a computer game, but “game” is misleading. There’s no el...
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