#ludonarrative harmony that's not about hardship + game is hard for once

[wormpool]

outer wilds is like if an elementary school science class was a video game. you know what I mean? kids love science. they love being curious and seeing cool things happen and being able to know why they happened. eventually science becomes more and more separated from play as you get older and learn that everything is actually really complicated all of the time, and that's a pretty sad effect of adulthood because it used to be so fun. but then outer wilds is like, I made some figurative test tubes you can combine and some figurative dinosaurs you can study ::)