Kentucky Route Zero: A Game You Can't Win

This is a love letter to Kentucky Route Zero. Kentucky Route Zero is a game you can't win. It tells you it's a tragedy. 0:00 - The most important moment of the game 0:14 - Spoiler warning 0:27 - What is Kentucky Route Zero 1:23 - Kentucky Route Zero on capitalism 4:14 - 1st Technique - Magical Realism 12:06 - 2nd Technique - Choice 22:46 - 3rd Technique - Community 28:25 - The game's final act Kentucky Route Zero is one of the best games I played this year, and this video is why. Actually, it is a game, but it's really a point and click game, adventure game, visual novel combo. There's a LOT of reading, but it's also one of my favorite Nintendo Switch games of 2020. Magical realism, anti-capitalism, and some serious David Lynch vibes make this one of the best games of 2020 for me. A game ostensibly based in rural Kentucky, you play Conway, on a search for 5 Dogwood Drive. This sends you on a route down the Zero, a mysterious highway in the Mammoth Caves of Kentucky. The game tells you it's a tragedy and that your strategies are useless. It's not the kind of game you win. You can't min-max your way to a good ending. This is my Kentucky Route Zero review. I played the Nintendo Switch version, so all the of the Kentucky Route Zero gameplay you're seeing is from the TV Edition. Included in this video is my cover of a hymn that is included on the Kentucky Route Zero soundtrack. If you'd like to download that yourself, watch all the way to the end for instructions. MY LINKS https://MattHorton.live Thanks to the Kentucky Route Zero unofficial Discord for the assistance. Love Letter icon by Vectors Market and Noun Project. #kentuckyroutezero #review #videoessay