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A video game makes you chop fish with one hand

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Sometimes disassociation is literally built into the gameplay. In What Remains of Edith Finch, you play out a memory of a man working in a cannery. The game forces you to manually chop the heads off incoming fish with your right hand while navigating a beautiful, distracting fantasy world with your left. It perfectly captures the terrifying trance of a dead-end job.

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