kr0 lands in that perfect sweet spot of being densely referential and literary but in a way where it's already strange and eerie and heartfelt even if you don't pick up on any of that, and knowing its inspirations just makes you appreciate it more; also, funnily enough, in its preoccupations it's not that far removed from drakengard and nier even if on the surface it's a completely different type of thing

definitely a game by and for american lit graduates, but don't let that deter you; in the first place, it's about people and the systems that try to grind them down