One of the most impressive moments in video game history is hidden away at the very end of Éric Chahi’s most paradoxical creation, Heart of Darkness. It is the solemn, meticulously crafted valediction by which its suggestive title finally falls into place.
I was seduced by the moody expression of her face, by her obstinate silences, her rare, scornful words; by the perpetual pout of her closed lips, the black depths of her fixed gaze turned slowly upon me as if in contemptuous provocation.
“Heart of Darkness” by Joseph Conrad
I was seduced by the moody expression of her face, by her obstinate silences, her rare, scornful words; by the perpetual pout of her closed lips, the black depths of her fixed gaze turned slowly upon me as if in contemptuous provocation.