Review: In Other Waters (Nintendo Switch)

Review by Harvard L.

We’ve all heard the old adage: “In space, no one can hear you scream”. And while that’s technically true, and while it might be effective in sending viewers to see Ridley Scott’s Alien, it’s not the most accurate way of considering extraterrestial life. You see, “no one can hear you scream” accurately captures the fear of isolation; but it holds the underlying assumption that you, screaming, calling for help, might have any sort of significance. But with the incredible scope of the universe, this is not the case at all. If you’ve ever felt small and powerless as one human in a population of seven billion, consider the insignificance of being one fleshy lifeform in a universe with far more galaxies than people in the world… the better adage might be: “In space, who cares? What even matters?”

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