Beyond Good & Evil (2003)

Ubisoft's masterpiece is forever relevant.

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ALTER EGO (2018)

ALTER EGO: Self-Discovery Clicker Game is a Japanese mobile freemieum game by Maki Ono and Caramel Column Inc, released in 2018 for iPhone and Android.

Unlike most idle games, it's story-driven, and also can be completed in about a week. It stands out by being more of a philosophical discussion than a game. It also has the most impressive stylization I've seen for this genre.

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Undertale's moral hypocrisy

Undertale tries to teach about non-violence, but how well does it do so?

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Sherlock: The icon of many faces

Sherlock Holmes occupies an interesting niche in human culture by having many different portrayals that vary greatly.

Image source: (center) illustration by Sidney Paget (1904), (left-to-right) Jason Gray-Stanford in Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century (1999), Katsuyuki Konishi in Case File nº221: Kabukicho (2019), John Barrymore in Sherlock Holmes (1922), Basil Rathbone in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939), Shinji Kawada in The Great Ace Attorney (2015), Benedict Cumberbatch in Sherlock (2010), Robert Downey Jr. in Sherlock Holmes (2009), Ken Wong Kai-Cheong in Sherlock Holmes and the Great Escape (2019), Sir Ian McKellen in Mr. Holmes (2015), Makoto Furukawa in Moriarty the Patriot (2016), Vasily Livanov in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson (1979), Taichiro Hirokawa in Sherlock Hound (1984)

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Truman Show's hidden dystopia

The already dark Truman Show gets even darker when you shift the perspective to the outside world.

Image source: The Truman Show

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Kamen Rider's Cross of Fire

The central theme of the long-running franchise is revealed only in a bonus episode four decades later.

Image source: Kamen Rider Wizard, Episode 53 "Neverending Story"

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Reexamining Nietzsche's philosophy

It's hard not to feel that, as of late, a theory raised over a century ago, one heavily criticized for being unethical, has still come to pass.

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