There’s no story to A Township Tale - no quests, no wars to fight, and no overarching mystery to uncover. The most prominent element missing is the lack of an “endgame” or long-term set of goals or missions to drive you forward and keep you hooked. I say potential because there a couple of things missing before it gets to that level. There’s potential in A Township Tale’s regular roles and emergent social connections to make this a VR MMO you’ll happily get lost in, and invest in for many many hours. You can be a woodcutter, a warrior (there are monsters in the forest and mountains), a cook, a carpenter - whatever appeals to you. The victims - and I use the word advisedly, as they didn’t just fall prey to a crime but were born into a society unready to accept them - come alive in the testimonials of those who loved them.You’ll eventually learn and make progress in A Township Tale, and you’ll have some really enjoyable times working with your fellow human players - you might even take on a regular profession and truly master it. (I’ll admit it had not been previously known to me that “overkill” was not just a metaphorical term, but one used in medical contexts to describe injuries vastly beyond what would cause death.) But the soulfulness of “Last Call” exists beyond or outside police-blotter details. We see this climate both broadly and, as it pertains to the New York Police Department, deeply an archival “Oprah” clip sees a guest correct her reference to “gay bashing” with an offensive slur and chalk the crime up to “goofiness,” while Ray Kelly, the former NYPD commissioner, is shown defending his membership in the Emerald Society, a fraternal organization with an antigay platform.Īll of this creates a thrumming, threatening backbeat to the story, and we’re certainly shown every contour of the crimes, too. Caronna’s series makes the case that, in a climate still defined by the homophobic activism of Anita Bryant and Pat Buchanan, the police were, at best, less than utterly committed to cracking the case. Though based on Elon Green’s 2021 book, “Last Call” uses the tools of documentary to assemble a collage of homophobia, and of queer resistance to it. This grim warning seemed to resonate more with queer people, who were already facing down the AIDS crisis and who grew increasingly fearful, than with law enforcement.

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