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Timestamp:
Introducing Norco: 0:00
Act I: Southern Gothicism: 4:12
Act II: The Stain of Place: 7:29
Act III: Worship: 11:42
Credits: 20:47
Views : 12,897
Genre: Gaming
Date of upload: Premiered Jan 24, 2023 ^^
Rating : 4.82 (34/723 LTDR)
RYD date created : 2024-05-01T20:08:57.559876Z
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YouTube Comments - 63 Comments
Top Comments of this video!! :3
As someone who has never lived in a town like Norco, I have to say I connected with this game immediately. There's something to this game that makes it feel like such a particular and local narrative, and impossibly universal at the same time... Thank you so much for putting those thoughts into words. ā¤ļø
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There are no where near enough good videos about Norco, so I was so glad to see Geography of Robots post this one. Norco was tied with Citizen Sleeper for my game of the year last year. I loved your analysis of the game, and you editing is really slick as well.
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Love this game so much. I'm from New Orleans and used to live In Baton Rouge. So I've driven past Norco many times at night. The refinery is so bright it honestly looks like the sun is still low in the sky.
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The music and artwork create a beautiful melancholic vibe.
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Whoa. Iām from the same parish as Norco and think you did an amazing job. Iāve had multiple family members who worked at Shell in Norco. Iāve always been a fan of your work but this hits different. Very strange and surreal hearing about my hometown from Epoch.
Iād love to see a deep dive into Cancer Alley from you. I grew up in the backyard of Monsanto, and have so many feelings about my hometown, but can never quite put it them into words. Youād be great at that, haha.
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I live about 45 minutes away from NORCO. I have passed through it/by it so many times en route to New Orleans. Thank you so much for taking time and care with this video. The game is brilliant, and the themes hit me hard as a Louisiana resident.
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i was born and raised in baton rouge. my mom's side of the family were the only italians in the city of lutcher. i'd drive through towns like norco, vacherie, laplace, destrehan, and donaldsonville regularly as a kid, the familiar landmarks etched like stone in the tabula rasa of my memory. the smell of the burning sugar cane. airline highway. i-10 and the spillway to get to new orleans, that when looking at pontchartrain from the interstate, you'd swear it was the ocean. the sunshine bridge, and how, when you were at the highpoint you could see the refineries as they meet the horizon.
i hated my home. i still do, in a sense. i felt disjoint, alienated from the world around me from a very young age. it didn't make sense how i could have lived 19 years continuously in a land so provincial, so backwards. the cycle of life where i'm fromāgraduate high school, go to LSU, get a decently paying job in the chemical industry, meeting your wife, having two kids, and dyingāis, to me, a nightmare, a life spent in the bliss of ignorance and comfort. i chose an elite university over a full ride at LSU or bama without so much as thinking twice. yet when i come back i feel a lingering guilt for hating this place. now that my rose tinted glasses pointed at the rest of the world are gone and having a rough experience going to college during COVID, i wonder sometimes about the merits of giving up my dreams and resigning to being as content as i can be in baton rouge, especially as my mother gets older and i want to spend more time with her.
but i'm still not giving up. i swore to myself when i was five i'd find a new place to be from. that search continues, and it will take its sweet time until i finally fulfill my potential in life. i knew (and know) my life doesn't end in southern louisiana. yet i am indelibly connected to it in ways i can never change. but i will die anywhere but my hometown.
NORCO evoked all these feelings for me in a way no other piece of media ever hasāand for that, it is a masterpiece
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Thank you again. You've spotlighted an excellent narrative horror game! That said, I'm not quite ready to watch this yet. I think that's because it hits a little close to home, having just graduated college and being unemployed. But thank you for putting it on my radar. I hope this comment finds you well, and boosts this in the algorithm
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I feel like Chex2Cash encapsulates the Norco experience. Great video!
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Great video. I noticed that the soundtrack really carries the theme well. Listening to it on Spotify now. Looking forward to playing this after Disco Elysium.
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Iām so glad this video was made. I have a lot of adoration and respect for Norco and Iām thankful itās getting a proper treatment here. Fantastic work.
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This is wonderful, Iām currently writing about Norco and the anthropology of place, will definitely be giving your video in Fisher a watch
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Your presentation style and voice remind me a lot of Aaron Mahnke in his Lore series. Thanks for making this! excited to watch more of your stuff.
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My dream is to be destroyed by something I love and not by capital
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Great video as always! You deserve so much more exposure... Greetings from the Netherlands
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I'm not used to play point & click videogames but this time I'll make an exception, it sounds really good!
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Hi! I really love this. Honestly I think you're one of the most insightful youtube channel out there!
By the way, have you ever thought about making a video on Fatal Strategies by Baudrillard?
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loved this, thanks
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this game is outstanding and nice video out there, really appreciate it
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