Conversely, a game like Spec Ops: The Line hit me so hard because it was at once a new level of storytelling in video games and a throwback to films like Apocalypse Now and the Joseph Conrad novella, Heart of Darkness.

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He once wrote an essay criticizing Joseph Conrad, author of "Heart of Darkness, " as a racist for his depiction of Africans as savages.

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