Kentucky Route Zero manages to do just that, exploring complex themes through the lives of equally complex people. The central thesis of the game -- and the acts that comprise it -- may not be easy to swallow, but to borrow a phrase from Act IV, there’s no shame in being forgotten.
Kentucky Route Zero - Act IV
Cardboard Computer · Jul 19, 2016
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- 9.0We're no closer to understanding the meaning behind this journey through Kentucky Route Zero, and it's hard to say if we'll even arrive at the point of it all during the game's fifth and final act. But Act IV proves the journey is everything, and what people take from and give to each other--even in the most desolate, purgatorial version of America imaginable--still matters.
- 8.5Route Zero: Act 4 constantly alternates between serene and unsettling, with the occasional dash of humor thrown in. The comic visual and dialogue nods help immensely, keeping the dense, introspective writing from simply becoming too much navel gazing.
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