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Anyone watched/played this yet? I spent 3+ hours last night working through all the paths. Best retro game of 2018?
*MILD SPOILERS AHEAD*
*MILD SPOILERS AHEAD*
Spoiler:
As usual with Black Mirror, it's all very meta. The year is 1984. You control the choices of a young video game programmer as he is working on a "choose your own adventure" game adapted from a book where the player controls the choices of the character. The programmer increasingly suspects he is not in control, etc.
My favorite part was the Pac-Man conspiracy theory...
"You know what Pac stands for? P-A-C. Program and Control. He’s Program and Control Man. The whole thing’s a metaphor. All he can do is consume. He’s pursued by demons that are probably just in his own head. And even if he does manage to escape by slipping out one side of the maze, what happens? He comes right back in the other side. People think it’s a happy game. It’s not a happy game. It’s a fucking nightmare world. And the worst thing is? It’s real and we live in it."
My favorite part was the Pac-Man conspiracy theory...
"You know what Pac stands for? P-A-C. Program and Control. He’s Program and Control Man. The whole thing’s a metaphor. All he can do is consume. He’s pursued by demons that are probably just in his own head. And even if he does manage to escape by slipping out one side of the maze, what happens? He comes right back in the other side. People think it’s a happy game. It’s not a happy game. It’s a fucking nightmare world. And the worst thing is? It’s real and we live in it."