I have to give thanks to my friend Minh for showing me Pixelante’s Immortall. You can find this quaint little flash game here. It casts the player as an alien who has crash landed on Earth and ends up experiencing a wide breadth of humanity. What follows is my brief discussion about whether the game succeeds or fails at its attempt in eliciting emotion so if you don’t want spoilers, first go play the game. It’s only about ten minutes long.
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