Absolutely.

Nothing like a big wall o' text to helpfully obfuscate the fact that killing people is wrong.

("Definitive" not necessary meaning "good," but comprehensive enough that, from a given perspective, one gets a reasonable idea of what the market looks like)

"Definitive videogame review site"—a site that makes some effort to review all or most videogames that are released. Fun is fun, but in that case there is perhaps no need to put forth goofy arguments about the necessity to review Imagine games for cultural-zeitgeist-related reasons.

…but you know, I really don't object. I guess it's actually kind of amusing to see a review a game like this. In fact, since the AVClub is never going to be a definitive videogame review site, focusing MORE on stuff like this might be an interesting way to go—it would lend some distinctness, at any rate. I still…

Hey, I don't *care* what this site reviews and fails to review; follow your bliss and all that, but given how incredibly scattershot, whimsical, and sporadic the videogame reviews are in particular, the idea that it is nonetheless VITALLY IMPORTANT that everyone's burning questions about the Imagine series be answered…

Godot fucking rules. I just wish we got to find out what HAPPENS to him at the end. The series is awfully damned coy about exactly what kind of punishments are meted out—SOME of them are definitely capital, but I don't get the impression that this is universal, and the series' somewhat maddening habit of making NO…

Yeah, and the real guilty is invariably one of the witnesses. Convenient! Also, I love the way witnesses who are transparently guilty are pretty much free to just change their stories at will when called on this. The reason you love these games is both in spite of and because of all this nonsense. Too bad Apollo…

You know how many AVClub readers were considering buying this game before reading this?
ZERO. This review is a nullity.

I heard an interview with this guy on Fresh Air.
I was impressed as hell—he seems like a real hero. It's beyond me how anyone could listen to that (or, presumably, read this book) and come away thinking that capital punishment is in any way defensible. I know it goes without saying these days, but sometimes you've…

Really? You were "hoping for a real video game version of Dante?" I can't imagine what you thought that could possibly look like. Sure, a dedicated English major (no, obviously Dante did not write in English, but COME ON) might be able to put together a decent text adventure, but you thought there was even the…

Dante's Purgatorio ought to be fun.
Very psychedelic. I, personally, am anxiously awaiting Dante's Paradiso, though. Now THAT sounds like it'll provide me with the white-knuckle action I crave.

Bagpipes fucking rule. The reason they appear in lists such as this one is that they're an easy punchline for lazy people who suck.

I like Steve Jobs. What are we talking about?

Being amused by gratuitously juvenile posturing is "facile?" Well…I guess it would have to be my age, then. Well done.

Yup.

It's not just the word "fuck;" it's the whole name, which makes me think of petulant children going "grr we hate the world" and scrunching up their faces trying to look angry but ending up more giggle-inducing than anything else.

I assume all the members of this band are twelve years old.
Otherwise, I would have no choice but to point and laugh at them for being named "Fucked Up." Really, there's no other excuse.

"Hey, you headless freaks! I'm over here!"
That merits a chuckle? Is there a key component here that I'm missing?

Be glad it's not Peter North, is all I'm saying. In oh-so-many ways.