You walk the streets of your home town and consider how much and how little has changed.
Should you have even come back?
Okay, so it’s a story-heavy point and click adventure set in an alternate near-future version of Louisiana.
Not any of the locals.
Not your semi-illegal live-in robot with a face full of stars.
Almost immediately you discover that you mum was probably involved in some kind of industrial espionage.
You take diversions into weird folk tales that sound semi-mythological.
It’s heightened and weird and increasingly surreal.
The writing is fantastic, managing to bring you both intimacy as well as vast strangeness.
of either genre I’ve seen this year.
Katharine:Cor, Norco sure does go places, huh?
A very special thing indeed.
Alice0:I’ve not yet finished Norco but I have enjoyed it so far.
I should remedy that over the break.
It isn’t even that long.
Norcos story set pieces are not your usual sci-fi set fodder, either.
Its a devastating and an unforgettable backdrop for one the of years best mystery games.
