Moments – An Essay

An Essay About Lessons through Games and Miscarriages Spoiler WarningThis essay talks about key moments in the following games. If you haven't played them and wish to do so unspoiled, what are you waiting for?Go play them! I'll be here. Journey by thatgamecompany Outer Wilds by Mobius Digital Tunic by Isometricorp Games Pierce Brown, Light Bringer"To those who wrote that we might read, to those who fell so we might walk, to those who came before so we might come after, gratitude." There's a moment in Journey—okay, there are many moments in thatgamecompany's seminal title—but there is this scene before the endgame. You've surfed the sun-soaked sands. You've skirted around mechanical dragons. Your scarf has grown. Perhaps you have even met fellow Journey-ers. Now you are ascending a tower in floaty bliss uncovering murals that lay out everything you've done, as if it was all foretold by one of those big white prophets countless ages ago. As the pictorial canvas meets up with the current…