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echolalia@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Horses, a first-person psychological horror adventure about “the burden of familial trauma and puritan values, the dynamics of totalitarian power, and the ethics of personal responsibility” set on a ranch where nude human beings in horse masks are treated as livestock.

Is this just a game for edgelords or is there something compelling under that mess of a description?

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Aielman15@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
youtu.be/iCkwMFoQno0

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- echolalia@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  So you’re saying this game is a work of art that will endure the ages? Worthy of hundreds of years of praise?
  
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  - Aielman15@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Whether a piece of art is a monumental accomplishment or a fleeting novelty should have no bearing on the content it is allowed to display.
    
    Unless you’re saying that Michelangelo gets a pass, but Horses doesn’t? How do you know whether a piece of art is worth it? Where do you draw the line?
    Stephen King’s IT has the famous scene where children have an orgy in the sewers. Is he allowed to write it? What’s the difference between IT and Horses, apart from the (subjective) quality of the works themselves?
    
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    echolalia@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    
    Where do you draw the line?
    
    I’m asking if its good or if its edgelord shovelware.
    
    Have you played it?
    
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