fair warning I generally have strong opinions and it's not personal if I hate something, ESPECIALLY video games

utena

foams at the mouth

I'm glad I didn't watch it when I was younger because it would have been my entire personality

HMMM goes to flip the "games we both own" switch on Steam

actually no I just have to scroll thru your list bcs I own a lot of these on Switch, oops

HMM HMM you have a few u own that I extra would wanna ask about but Steam says u don't have playtime in them yet... so I will ask about ur thoughts on Bioshock maybe!

(there is also a chance I have played anything in there on console and just happen to have it from a $2 sale at some point lol)

(OH OKAY then goes to stick my fingers into ur list again)

also one last note on utena is that I don't know if I've ever seen my lived experience spelled out so accurately by a piece of media. this is the type of shit I wish The Discourse was talking about when discussing Representation. I don't fucking CARE if she kisses girls I want whatever is wrong with Juri.

(I know what's wrong with Juri and it's physically painful to watch it play out on a screen)

for BIOSHOCK in general I think uhhh competent product of its time, doesn't make a particularly strong impression on me, is significantly sullied by the legacy of Infinite because it's much harder to give its somewhat surface level understanding of politics more of a benefit of the doubt in light of All That

thoughts on Control, Rain World, and Signalis! I have not played these all but I have been Interested in the ones I haven't
and i wanna see u play Chants of Sennaar at some point still

I HAVEN'T PLAYED ANY OF THESE YET 8( was actually thinking of starting Signalis tonight, though

ohohoho

I might come watch for a bit if u do, I can stay up slightly later tonight....

sure!!

I'm looking forward to Control and Rain World, too, because I am very interested in whatever the fuck Remedy has been cooking all this time but I don't want to spend any time with Alan "Weh I'm A Shit Husband" Wake

which isn't a criticism of the Wake games, I'm genuinely thrilled that the second one came out with the bombast that it did, I just have zero patience/tolerance/room in my hater heart for Sad White Man Game

extremely fair
sometimes things are just not for someone and that's okay

YEAH I genuinely wish he was. pretty much any other character.

I don't want to be in his head and I don't care about his problems. (this also speaks to how highly I think of Disco Elysium's writing, because Harry DuBois rocketed into maybe???? my slot for the best video game protagonist Ever

and Rain World is one of those games I need to play because it's Indie Darling Canon and everyone always assumes I've played it lmao

Disco Elysium is very Aware of how much of a Sad White Man harry is and that makes a lot of difference I think

YEAH it's aware, and it's aware in a very matured sense that isn't just. the text flagellating itself.

that game REALLY set my personal bar for narrative-forward games-- not even just how reactive it is to my choices, because that is a developmental nightmare, just the simple quality of the prose and narration.

it highlights just how shit low the bar frankly is for games

which is why my steam wrapped looks like this lmao

if the writing isn't really, really worth my time, I don't want any writing at all

at least not in the traditional narrative sense