It’s not the long-awaited Act III but it’s welcome nonetheless
Whilst I check everyday to see if Act III ofKentucky Route Zerohas downloaded, the folks at developer Cardboard Computer have released a standalone experience calledThe Entertainment. You’ll take control of an uncredited actor portraying a drunken barfly observing events in a bar. Which is really a theatre. Which might not be real. Kinda.
Evelyn is confiding in Harry about her husband Ted who is out of town due to his job as a hammer salesmen. Evelyn’s worried that Ted might be tempted to cheat on her but Ted’s well, like, a good man. Harry’s been on vacation to New Orleans, spent seven days beside the beach. Or was it the pool, hard to remember. Pearl’s gonna make some changes; she’s not gonna take care of her parents anymore, all they do is take advantage of her but they know Pearl will pick up their tab. A debt’s a debt after all.
The Entertainment was performed one night in Buffalo in in 1973 and was written by Lula Chamberlain who was the artist that was featured in agallery show last month that I posted about. At the time I wasn’t sure if she was even real, as Lula appears in Act II ofKentucky Route Zero.
She was apparently anavant-garde artist during the 1960sbut only gathered a small amount of acclaim. I hadn’t realized that the Cardboard Computer guys put out a virtual gallery game called Limits & Demonstrations at the start of the year, which was a described as a “virtual retrospective.” The Entertainment is worth experiencing (the song towards the end was lovely) but it’s making me anxious to play Act III.
