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Postmodern works

  • Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the PatriotsMetal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots reached shops on the 12th of June 2008. According to Konami, more than three million units shipped worldwide that day. Kojima Productions built the game for the PlayStation 3, and it was the sixth…
  • Neon Genesis EvangelionDirector Hideaki Anno called Neon Genesis Evangelion a metaphor for his own four-year depression.
  • NierNier is a 2010 action role-playing game, and its own director summed up its commercial fate with a shrug: "we weren't really in the red, but it wasn't exactly a success either." Cavia developed it and Square Enix published it for the…
  • The Stanley ParableThe Stanley Parable begins with an office worker known only as employee 427. Stanley sits in a building and presses buttons whenever a screen tells him to. He never speaks, and his job is to follow instructions without asking why. Then one…
  • Black Mirror: BandersnatchIn Bandersnatch, viewers get ten seconds to choose before the film moves on without them.
  • Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of LibertyEvery trailer for Metal Gear Solid 2 showed Solid Snake in fights that Raiden had. Players had never heard of him.
  • Samurai ChamplooSamurai Champloo opens with a coin toss that decides whether two swordsmen keep trying to kill each other. Heads, and their duel goes on. Tails, and they must first help a young woman search for a samurai who smells of sunflowers. This…
  • Persona 4Persona 4 is a 2008 role-playing game from the Japanese developer Atlus, and it opens on a puzzle that sounds like a ghost story. In a small rural town, bodies are found dangling from television antennas, and no one can say what killed…
  • Revolutionary Girl UtenaRevolutionary Girl Utena begins with a teenage girl in a boys' school uniform who raises a sword to win another girl's hand. Her name is Utena Tenjou, and the prize is Anthy Himemiya, a mysterious student known as the Rose Bride. Anthy is…
  • Disco ElysiumA man wakes in a trashed hostel room in the district of Martinaise, with a savage hangover and no memory of who he is. He does not know his name, his profession, or anything about the world beyond the door. This is how Disco Elysium…

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