There’s no inherent truth in games, at least not in the sense of submersed intentions, just as there’s no huntsman in the cluster of stars that forms the constellation Orion. Interpretation is merely self-fulfilled imagination, each as valid and invalid as the next.

While one interpretation may come closer to the artist’s intent, that doesn’t by any means discount a feral interpretation. This lack of meaning seems to discredit the growing movement towards a more literary approach to analyzing games. If games are devoid of any definite truth aside from logical and mathematical ones, then why write about them?

Well, for entertainment… for persuading others to hold a belief through analogy… to convince ourselves that there’s some underlying value to this habit that we sink our time/money/lives into….

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