Returnal Archives - Unwinnable https://unwinnable.com/tag/returnal/ Stories about Culture Mon, 06 Jan 2025 21:50:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://unwinnable.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-icon-1-32x32.jpg Returnal Archives - Unwinnable https://unwinnable.com/tag/returnal/ 32 32 Returnal Pushes Against the Risks of Ambition https://unwinnable.com/2023/12/21/returnal-pushes-against-the-risks-of-ambition/ Thu, 21 Dec 2023 15:00:28 +0000 https://unwinnable.com/?p=94161 For Thoreau, mundanity might be a feather duster, but for ambition, it's anything which takes away time from achieving something extraordinary.

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]]> Every Game is Happy Death Day https://unwinnable.com/2023/03/30/every-game-is-happy-death-day/ Thu, 30 Mar 2023 04:03:08 +0000 https://unwinnable.com/?p=90802 Videogames, with their very direct focus on death and rebirth as a normal part of play, are uniquely positioned to get us thinking about the horrors of our own mortality.

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]]> Time Loop of Trauma https://unwinnable.com/2023/01/20/time-loop-of-trauma-159/ https://unwinnable.com/2023/01/20/time-loop-of-trauma-159/#comments Fri, 20 Jan 2023 05:03:17 +0000 https://unwinnable.com/?p=89853 There is no catharsis to be had at the end of Returnal's time loop. It becomes clear, as the player finishes the story, that it will keep going.

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