The Horror: Heart of Darkness's Colonialist Rhetoric in Far Cry 2
Still an amazing game. This is a comparative close reading of Far Cry 2 and Heart of Darkness, and a deep dive into their shared colonialist baggage, drawing from the toolbox of game studies, literary studies, and cultural studies. It wasn't until after publishing the video that I realized famed game studies researcher Jorge Albor had written an amazing article on exactly the same topic, please find it here: https://web.archive.org/web/201205260... Chapters: 00:00 - Introduction 18:56 - The Other 57:28 - The Threshold 1:34:42 - Death 1:56:48 - Conclusion https://bsky.app/profile/crocodilegam... ------------------------------ Additional Keywords: far cry 2 worth it, postcolonial, review, Apocalypse Now

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