Papo & Yo, a downloadable game released earlier this month for PlayStation 3, is something commonplace in other art forms but comparatively rare in videogames, an attempt by an artist to exorcise his own demons through his chosen form of expression. The child escapes into his imagination: a door magically opens on the closet wall behind him and he darts through it, into a world over which he can exercise some form of control. That story came immediately to mind as I began a game of Papo & Yo, because that’s the game’s first scene: A child, huddled in the closet, watching through the slats of the door as the shadow of his father stomps by. The first indication I ever had that people around me may not have been was when a friend told me she used to hide in the closet as a young child to escape her drug-addicted father’s rampages.
I am lucky enough to be totally ignorant of what it is like to grow up with parents who were anything other than loving and kind.
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