Waypoint Article Read and Discussion: Agony Review

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🗓️ 6 June 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Please note, this podcast carries a content warning for discussion of sexual violence and brutal misogyny.

Patrick reads his review titled 'Agony,' a Game About Dehumanizing Women, Isn't Just Bad, It's Toxic, and he and Rob discuss the game. They detail the many ways in which the game isn't just poorly designed—a sort of first-person trip through hell—it also has real problems with women.

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0:29.5	Terms apply.
0:50.2	Welcome back friends to another Waypoint article, breed.
0:52.5	I'm Rob Zachney bringing you Patrick Klopvik and his review of Agony.
0:56.0	A gruesome and spectacularly misogynist action game set in hell.
1:00.8	As Patrick details in this review, which you should be advised,
1:04.1	includes some pointed discussion around the game's themes of sexual violence, assault, and misogyny,
1:09.2	it's a bad video game on a different level than we usually mean by that term.
1:13.8	And one that forces us to ask some different questions about how we approach and discuss it.
1:19.8	Here's Patrick with his review, Agony.
1:22.6	A game about the humanized woman isn't just bad, it's toxic.
1:26.0	It's a ground after for a chat between me and Patrick.
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