Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Death Is a Strange Reward: The Gretel and Hansel Series


I'm really fond of New Grounds. sure, there's a lot of crap there, but you can filter a lot of it and get at the interesting stuff with relative ease.

I'd been playing around with Gretel and Hansel: Part 2, one of the recent featured games at New Grounds, which provoked some discussion between my wife and I about sanitized brutality in today's fairy tales. Gretel and Hansel is not one of those sanitized contemporary revisions of a classic tale, if anything it goes well beyond the Brothers Grimm or Perrault's most horrific tales.

I talk this week a bit about violence and morality as a result:

Death Is a Strange Reward: The Gretel and Hansel Series

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