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My dream is to be destroyed by something I love and not by capital

The music and artwork create a beautiful melancholic vibe.

As someone who has never lived in a town like Norco, I have to say I connected with this game immediately. There's something to this game that makes it feel like such a particular and local narrative, and impossibly universal at the same time... Thank you so much for putting those thoughts into words. ❤️

There are no where near enough good videos about Norco, so I was so glad to see Geography of Robots post this one. Norco was tied with Citizen Sleeper for my game of the year last year. I loved your analysis of the game, and you editing is really slick as well.

Love this game so much. I'm from New Orleans and used to live In Baton Rouge. So I've driven past Norco many times at night. The refinery is so bright it honestly looks like the sun is still low in the sky.

Whoa. I’m from the same parish as Norco and think you did an amazing job. I’ve had multiple family members who worked at Shell in Norco. I’ve always been a fan of your work but this hits different. Very strange and surreal hearing about my hometown from Epoch. I’d love to see a deep dive into Cancer Alley from you. I grew up in the backyard of Monsanto, and have so many feelings about my hometown, but can never quite put it them into words. You’d be great at that, haha.

Excellent analysis. One of my favorite games of all time and the cyberpunk southern gothic swamp punk genre is my favorite. Thank you.

I’m so glad this video was made. I have a lot of adoration and respect for Norco and I’m thankful it’s getting a proper treatment here. Fantastic work.

I live about 45 minutes away from NORCO. I have passed through it/by it so many times en route to New Orleans. Thank you so much for taking time and care with this video. The game is brilliant, and the themes hit me hard as a Louisiana resident.

I love norco so much. I watched a lot of video essays on this game and yours is one of my favourites. All the books you mentioned went right on my tbr list.

i was born and raised in baton rouge. my mom's side of the family were the only italians in the city of lutcher. i'd drive through towns like norco, vacherie, laplace, destrehan, and donaldsonville regularly as a kid, the familiar landmarks etched like stone in the tabula rasa of my memory. the smell of the burning sugar cane. airline highway. i-10 and the spillway to get to new orleans, that when looking at pontchartrain from the interstate, you'd swear it was the ocean. the sunshine bridge, and how, when you were at the highpoint you could see the refineries as they meet the horizon. i hated my home. i still do, in a sense. i felt disjoint, alienated from the world around me from a very young age. it didn't make sense how i could have lived 19 years continuously in a land so provincial, so backwards. the cycle of life where i'm from-graduate high school, go to LSU, get a decently paying job in the chemical industry, meeting your wife, having two kids, and dying-is, to me, a nightmare, a life spent in the bliss of ignorance and comfort. i chose an elite university over a full ride at LSU or bama without so much as thinking twice. yet when i come back i feel a lingering guilt for hating this place. now that my rose tinted glasses pointed at the rest of the world are gone and having a rough experience going to college during COVID, i wonder sometimes about the merits of giving up my dreams and resigning to being as content as i can be in baton rouge, especially as my mother gets older and i want to spend more time with her. but i'm still not giving up. i swore to myself when i was five i'd find a new place to be from. that search continues, and it will take its sweet time until i finally fulfill my potential in life. i knew (and know) my life doesn't end in southern louisiana. yet i am indelibly connected to it in ways i can never change. but i will die anywhere but my hometown. NORCO evoked all these feelings for me in a way no other piece of media ever has-and for that, it is a masterpiece

This is wonderful, I’m currently writing about Norco and the anthropology of place, will definitely be giving your video in Fisher a watch

I feel like Chex2Cash encapsulates the Norco experience. Great video!

Thank you again. You've spotlighted an excellent narrative horror game! That said, I'm not quite ready to watch this yet. I think that's because it hits a little close to home, having just graduated college and being unemployed. But thank you for putting it on my radar. I hope this comment finds you well, and boosts this in the algorithm

Great video. I noticed that the soundtrack really carries the theme well. Listening to it on Spotify now. Looking forward to playing this after Disco Elysium.

Great video as always! You deserve so much more exposure... Greetings from the Netherlands

I'm not used to play point & click videogames but this time I'll make an exception, it sounds really good!

Your presentation style and voice remind me a lot of Aaron Mahnke in his Lore series. Thanks for making this! excited to watch more of your stuff.

this game is outstanding and nice video out there, really appreciate it

I don't really play video games but this video makes me want to try this game

loved this, thanks

Hi! I really love this. Honestly I think you're one of the most insightful youtube channel out there! By the way, have you ever thought about making a video on Fatal Strategies by Baudrillard?

Jesus, your videos are on the mark, original and supremely entertaining.

Great content ❤

Great video !

i just wanted to comment as a games journalist and say THIS IS INCREDIBLE and i love seeing this at all, but especially on a channel as lovely as yours. I love all of your videos and this one was such a wonderful surprise. I'm going to share it with every writer and editor i know

This is creepy: I was just listening to another video of yours, and for some reason thought about Norco again. Lo and behold, not moments later I discovered you'd made a video about it 😮

Great vido sir!

I'm currently reading Beyond the Pleasure Principle and struggling with what "death drive" actually meas, and this video made something click. Beautifully made!

great video love your shit

If you choose to do more video game reviews, I think a metal gear solid 2 video would fit right in with your channel

you should show off your books

Well, I doubt my only computer, an HP Pavilion 2016/17 laptop I barely was able to upgrade to 8gb RAM on last year, would even be able to tolerate the game. Plus I just had to sell my PS4 to pay bills, so I got nothing left to try cool games on now. 😣

Where is that speech from in the beginning

i thought this was going to be about hydrocodone

Hello algorithm

The Deep South, or Gothic South, was always fascinating to me for the the things that makes this place awful, it's horror in a quite, hot, dirty, and malicious way From Resident Evil 7 the family and the house, to Huntshowdown decaying structures housing Lovecraftian entities. Unlike the western cowboy frontier or the north hopeful community, or the empty lands of the north west, the deep south is a (sorry for the language) shthole place that has been destroyed by a combination of Capitalism and Racism.

So much mumbo-jumbo. Cool game though

Obtuse video. Explains obvious things but then leaves little sentence stubs to interpret what the author was thinking or referring to

I wish there were more modern games like this with action mixed in. I don't understand why games have to be one or the other. These open world action based games with checklist activities that are too big and convoluted and wated down for their own good. Or you have these throw back point and click adventures. Why can't they make a game like this with modern graphics and driving from local to local and interacting and talkng to different people where action situations unfold and shootouts etc. Themes and writing aside too. This game has good writing and atmospher. I'm not sure how appealing it is to me though. Or if it's even a masterpiece. It has something going for it. I feel like writing and atmosphere could be even better. But this is at least on the right track in ways in that regard.