Times & Galaxy is a quietly excellent space journalism story

One of the classic draws to games as a medium is having a go at fictional jobs like wizard, space salvager, or landlord. This week I've been playing Times & Galaxy, a kinda silly but absorbing visual novel game about a sci fi concept called "journalism". It's good!

The game, I mean. You can be a pretty terrible journalist, perhaps even intentionally. You're a robot too, which the game quietly points out in an in-universe article was installed with a blank slate for increased malleability. It is full of clever but mild mini-jokes like that, told not to expect big laughs but a baseline of playful cheeriness. I initially said "despite", but it might be precisely because of that levity that it's so easy to give real thought to what kind of reporterbot you'll be.