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The illusion of perfect happiness, July 29, 2015by Victor Gijsbers (The Netherlands) I don't know whether like is the right verb, but I certainly had a positive response to Horse Master. The game has imagination, especially when describing the central fiction of the horse and the process of mastering it; and it delivers it with good pacing. (Spoiler - click to show)From the very first scene it is obvious that these horses are strange; then the physical details start coming in and our mental image becomes more and more alien; and finally, at the great day, it turns out that all the preconceptions we still had about horse mastering were wrong as well. For it turns out -- and this is of course a brilliant thematic move -- that we are not trying to master any abilities that have to do with horses; we are trying to master the horse itself, to be its master, to dominate it to the point where it wont eat us and will let itself be killed. There is no achievement and no intrinsic worth to the procedure at all. There is only the prize conferred on us by a society that wants to witness a bizarre and gruesome spectacle. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
Comments on this reviewPrevious | << 1 >> | Next Christina Nordlander, July 28, 2015 - Reply Very nice review, but you might want to put in some spoiler tags when you're talking about the ending. Victor Gijsbers, July 29, 2015 - Reply Good point. I guess I should post almost all of it between spoiler tags... Christina Nordlander, July 29, 2015 - Reply Thanks for making the change! And I never like to bug people about things like this, but the ending of Horse Master is powerful enough that I'd hate for people to be spoiled of it ahead of playing. |