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Five Titles This Black Video Game Guru Can’t Live Without

Below are five video game recommendations from the journalist, comic-book writer, and video game narrative designer Evan Narcisse, with commentary in his own words. Read more about Narcisse and his worldview in Jamal Michel’s Mother Jones profile, “One Man’s Mission to Make Video Games a Little Less White.” United Game Artists/Sega Rez United Game Artists (2002) In this musical “rail shooter,” a hacker infiltrates a dysfunctional AI: “Throws deep existential questions at the player while immersing them in a thumping kaleidoscope experience inspired by raves and synesthesia.” Starbreeze Studios/505 Games Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons Starbreeze Studios (2013) Siblings Naiee and Naia set out to save their sick father by collecting water from the Tree of Life: “A short little fairytale gem that perfectly demonstrates the expressive power that pressing a button can yield.” Ubisoft Assassin’s Creed: Freedom Cry Ubisoft (2014) A formerly enslaved African pirate joins Maroon freedom fighters to battle slavers in 1730s Saint-Domingue (Hispaniola): “This one really resonates with me deeply because it uses Black diasporic history and characters speaking the Kreyòl dialect I heard growing up to show the injustice that sparked the Haitian Revolution.” Supergiant Games Hades Supergiant Games (2020) Zagreus tries to bail on Hades and make it to Mt.

 

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