Night in the Woods is basically Ghost World meets Richard Scarry. Or maybe it's Clerks meets a Southern Gothic ghost story set in the rust belt. Or maybe it's Catcher in the Rye, but with a Sharkle.
Whatever the case, Night in the Woods is a pretty dense work, thematically, despite wearing its intentions on its sleeve. It wants to tell a relatable coming of age story, and it wants to tell the story of Possum Springs. But it does so in a way that has a lot of meat to dig into by relating the two. I kind of try to do that here, but the more I think about it the more there's stuff I didn't cover. Hm.
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