Article about Ender Lilies on Sidequest

~ Kathryn

I got to write my dream article for Sidequest about Ender Lilies, one of my favorite games! Here’s the opening paragraph:

In Binary Haze’s 2021 Soulslike Metroidvania Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights, a young girl named Lily navigates a hostile postapocalyptic world with the help of grotesquely mutated undead monsters. As the game progresses, Lily becomes increasingly reliant on her monstrous companions as she becomes more monstrous herself. Ender Lilies functions as an intriguing model of mutual aid, especially in relation to its gradual descent into fungal horror. As the world changes around us, Ender Lilies asks, is it really so horrific to develop radical new relationships with the environment?

You can read the full piece on Sidequest here:
https://sidequest.zone/2024/09/05/ender-lilies-fungal-horror/

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Published by Kathryn

Reader of books and player of games. College professor and pokémon trainer. Writes about Japanese fiction, media, gender, and society. In love with monsters and magic. https://digitalfantasydiary.com/

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