The stars drop away.... Kentucky Route Zero is a new adventure game, in the vein of Walking Dead where puzzles and complexity is replaced by damn good story-telling and writing.
In KR0 you are Conway, a delivery truck driver for an antique shop, looking to drop off your last item for the day. You've got 'your' trusty dog Blue (who you get to name and gender, oddly enough) with you and an old truck, and unfortunately the only way to find where you're heaaded is the ol' Route 0. You stop at a variety of surrealist destinations on your way there and chat with even more strange folks. Eventually you meet a younger lady Shannon who seems to be our secondary protagonist. She's also looking for something but... we're not sure what.
Episode 1 is only an hour or so but it seems to set up our premise and main mystery pretty well. What really sets the game apart is the art style and its music. There are several beautiful tracks, with "You've Got to Walk" as a heart-wrenchingly beautiful interlude song at the halfway mark that I don't think will ever forget. The game sets its mood with the ethereal music and graphics and I can tell I'm in for a trippy ride.
Not a whole lot happens in Act 1 so I can't score it too highly, but I'm certainly enjoying the mystery well enough and will be pacing myself on these acts to theorize what's going on:
My number one theory of course that we're all dead or something and this is purgatory, hahaha....
In KR0 you are Conway, a delivery truck driver for an antique shop, looking to drop off your last item for the day. You've got 'your' trusty dog Blue (who you get to name and gender, oddly enough) with you and an old truck, and unfortunately the only way to find where you're heaaded is the ol' Route 0. You stop at a variety of surrealist destinations on your way there and chat with even more strange folks. Eventually you meet a younger lady Shannon who seems to be our secondary protagonist. She's also looking for something but... we're not sure what.
Episode 1 is only an hour or so but it seems to set up our premise and main mystery pretty well. What really sets the game apart is the art style and its music. There are several beautiful tracks, with "You've Got to Walk" as a heart-wrenchingly beautiful interlude song at the halfway mark that I don't think will ever forget. The game sets its mood with the ethereal music and graphics and I can tell I'm in for a trippy ride.
Not a whole lot happens in Act 1 so I can't score it too highly, but I'm certainly enjoying the mystery well enough and will be pacing myself on these acts to theorize what's going on:
My number one theory of course that we're all dead or something and this is purgatory, hahaha....