“ i’ve never played a game i understood less than this one”

Did you ever play Glover on the N64?

It’s a bit tricky to hit the sweet spot because the game breaks-ups its ability across three separate trees—gadgets, suit powers, and skills—and the skills tree itself is ALSO split into three different trees, and far too many feel like they should be things you start with.

But I’ve been thinking a lot lately that…

I mean that really wouldn’t shock me— for all its warm colours and determined characters, the underline premise of Shirobako is that the state of the animation industry in Japan is dire: it’s an essentially unliveable work schedule that leaves you unfulfilled and the only way to make it is to fling out s many…

Oh they’re fun, but I find their fun when you ignore the setting. It’s fun to just fuck around as Batman swinging from buildings and swooping down to punch some bros. It stops being being fun whenever you have to click on a story mission, which are both not terrible interesting as missions but also not good as story.…

I mean if we’re grading on the curve of superhero games, it’s only got one competitor which is the Arkham games, a series that has a very solid combat but even by its second game got completely lost up its own asshole, presenting a vision of a beloved character and his pals (The Bat Family) in a grim, scowly, joyless,…

I mean these are all ordinary Spiderman characters - Norman Osbornes, Doc Octavius, MJ, Aunt May. I think Yuri might be the only new character, though character is a stretch because she hasn’t much to do other than role her eyes at Parker’s Spidercop schtick.

And to be clear I haven’t beaten the story - I’ve just had…

I picked it up on sale last week and I’m playing it for the first time. Swinging around Mahattan feels... perfect. The game has its issues - the combat takes a bunch of levelling before you get the right powers to not feel like you’re a fragile porcelain doll, the island of Manhattan cuts-off dead at Harlem for some…

Maybe something two hours long that completely ruins the mystery and fear of the series biggest threat?

Flirt.

I’m still hung up on Eternals repeatedly needing to stress that DC comics exist in the MCU. Why? Why, movie? Also, in a world where the blip happen for five years and there are alien invasions and literal real life superheroes, is there still a market for Batman or Superman?

If the pandemic has taught us anything, it’s that personal responsibility works extraordinarily well for public safety - if nations whose populace are capable of being personally responsible.

Americans, collectively, are not.

American gun owners murder more people on a scale unlike anywhere else in the world, because…

Probably because that’s how Netflix themselves are reacting - layoffs and cancellations despite the fact that they’re still a massive and profitable company. But because capitalism demands a (literally impossible) trend of ‘eternal growth’), hitting market saturation is treated like a death sentence.

“Mighty money powerhouse IGN “

Important question: who the fuck goes to IGN for news, and why?

My dude, the latest movie came out 14 months ago. This is like dismissing someone being mad about The Book of Boba Fett because Star Wars is a “45 year old franchise.”

My guy, it’s still happening. They’re still making it in the present day.

Not that it’s really relevant, because I will also fundamentally never…

I know it’s not: Japan put EVA on kid’s lunchboxes for some bizarre reason (see also WB putting Arya Stark in the new for-kids punch-em-up game alongside Steven Universe and Shaggy). I am addressing the language of this article, which is presenting this as a tragedy.

And also, again, it’s not a tragedy because all this…

Call me when a franchise with meaning and clarity gets shat on: then I’ll take umbrage.

As someone who has now seen every bit of NGE, television and movies (except for the recap film Death & Rebirth), I speak very firmly when I say: this franchise does not in any way shape or form earn your veneration or respect, and we should all celebrate its pretentious bullshit being made to do stupid video game…

I made it just for you!

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That has to be a typo: Shadows of War is, mechanically, a far better and more refined experience.