In 2001, Sega’s musical rail-shooter Rez felt like a science experiment. By playing with the idea that gameplay could create music and sound effects could form a soundtrack, it arrived with a sense that we don’t really know what video games are yet, so let’s try this. It threw you inside a computer with a wireframe look, an AI-driven story, and all the optimism and fear of technology that came with that. It felt like a game reaching for the future.
In 2021 … it still feels that way.
I’ve long
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