Monster Hunter and Hitman might seem like very different experiences. Where one has you swordfighting with dinosaurs so that you can turn them into a pair of chaps, the other’s an exercise in hurling cans of pasta sauce at the kinds of people whose deaths we’re told not to celebrate in polite society. But whether hunting monsters literal or metaphorical, both games are, together, a reminder that learning doesn’t just have to be in service of the standards defined for us.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7k9n4g/how-big-lizards-and-bald-assassins-reclaimed-my-love-of-learning