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Playing with the Player: A Celebration of Ever17 at 20
On August 28, 2022, KID’s seminal visual novel Ever17: The Out of Infinity turns 20. To celebrate this milestone, I decided to analyze and/or ramble about why, two decades later, its plot still manages to surprise.WARNING: This article contains massive spoilers for Ever17. One of the most powerful tools in fiction is tricking your audience.…
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[Garzey Day 2022] Making Sense of Our Convoluted Situation
In October 2021, I joked to a friend that I would “write a research paper or something” about Garzey’s Wing for April Fools Day. Through the miracle of taking a joke too far, I actually did it. As a disclaimer, I am not a professionally trained writer of any sort. Consider the following essay the…