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But if there's any recurring theme throughout the three acts of http://www.rsgaming.com/ Cardboard Computer's seminal and increasingly significant game it's that sometimes the most important moments the revelations you search desperately for come where you least expect them, trapped in a haunted mine or a desolate dive bar under the quiet of the open night sky.Junebug and Johnny's performance of Too Late to Love You to an almost empty tavern forms the musical centerpiece of Kentucky Route Zero's latest act. The ambient piece with its minimal beat, swirling orchestral flourishes and emotive vocals encapsulates the ethereal beauty that lies at the heart of this game. It is here that the magical realist adventure finally lays bare the opaque heart filled with vague, amorphous intentions, giving the clearest hints of how its internal machinations work.In more than a few ways, taking a left-of-center detour from the main plot that concludes with a musical set-piece puts this scene in direct comparison with Final Fantasy VI's famous opera scene. Both narrow their focus onto the aesthetic elements and reduce Runescape player interaction to purely text-based choices, capturing a microcosm of a larger truth through a magical musical performance. The larger truth here, at least from the Runescape game's context, is how differently each treats Runescape player choice within the context of their linear narratives.In the opera scene, the Runescape player has to rehearse lines from a script before performing them on-stage as Celes. The choices are reduced to simple right or wrong where much like the rest of the series, the Runescape games aren't interested in the motivation or intention of the Runescape player who made them. In Final Fantasy, Runescape players embody these characters who are essentially chained to the script themselves, the Runescape game too absorbed with its own narration to bother inviting the Runescape player into that process.Kentucky Route Zero's musical centerpiece is similarly linear albeit with a key difference the three choices you are offered at specific points in the song are of subtly different tones and moods. When you left me I never should have met you I wish we'd met before Ranging from despondent, bitter to hopeful, each choice holds a mirror to the Runescape player, asking them a basic question that Runescape games rarely if ever bother asking: How do you feel? By doing so, Kentucky Route Zero is able to achieve something important: It includes the Runescape player in its narrative process even though the narrative is linear. Every choice you make in the Runescape game affects your experience of it and how you contextualize the characters within it more than the actual plot itself.