Review of C.Kane

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Review of C.Kane

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This review was originally posted on Steam, under my alt-name, zippywings. Porting it here for all of the fanboys (and for the 2016 Review Contest):

Much can be argued about what makes an RPG an RPG, whether it's story-rich, battle-heavy, or fit with a cast of essentric characters (who all somehow get lumped into the category of hero, even though they may not wish to fall into that trap). C.Kane attempts to boil all of these RPG tropes down into a simple format and lean message about what actually constitutes the hero's journey and questions whether the hero is even really a hero.

Charles Kane is just your average RPG hero, well, media mogul with an absentee father if you want to get technical, who goes around town and listens to the pleas of townsfolk who wish him to locate their junk for them. Along the way, he fights monsters and bosses, as that's the only way he can please the people. But as he journeys from one corner of a post-apocalyptic United States to another, he gradually comes face-to-face with the greatest moral questions that an RPG hero can face: Is he doing the right thing?

C.Kane isn't just a game about killing monsters (even though it kind of is). It's a game that dives deep into a series of philosophical questions that challenge our understanding of what makes a good man good, or a good man into a monster. It's a game about moral choices, and deciding what makes a choice moral. It's a game about talking beavers, clowns, and hip-hop talking wizards. And it has a soundtrack that reminds you that, even though you are having to make tough choices about whether you should slay that monster or dump your wife for the "hot chick," you are still playing an RPG, one that should take only a few hours to finish.

Should you play C.Kane? Only if you enjoy a good story, thought-provoking character dilemmas, and don't give a lick about random battles, except for those against mega sharks, zombies, walruses, and pure evil.

Oh, and don't adjust your color. It's meant to be in black and white. It's based on a film from the 1930s after all. This applies only when clown mode is inactive.

If that's not convincing enough for you to buy, well, it's cheap, so get it anyway.

(end Steam review)

I also have a let's play on my YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... DJwEvI8v8g
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