Kentucky Route Zero Free Write

Kentucky Route Zero exhibits magical realism in many ways. The main way that it shows magical realism is by having a lot of fantastical elements in the game while trying to keep it somewhat realistic. An example of this is in Act 3 when Conway and Shannon go to the bar and listen to the people that drove by in motorcycles sing. The woman turns into an angel and the roof disappears. Another fantastical element of the game is the fact that they are looking for a road called “the Zero” that doesn’t seem to exist in the same physical world that the rest of the game exists in. A third aspect of the fantastical elements of the game is when Conway gets his leg crushed in the mine and then goes to the doctor to get it fixed and comes out with a robot leg, commenting that it doesn’t feel like his leg anymore. A fourth and final main way that the game incorporates fantastical elements is sometimes when a character is talking near a television screen, in particular when Conway and Weaver/Shannon are in the old Marquez house, the walls disappear and the scene is focus on what is in the background. All of these fantastical elements make Kentucky Route Zero a particularly bizarre and interesting game.