Speaking of which, does anyone remember what the original reception of Heretic II was like? I really tried liking it, but I guess we weren't meant for each other.

It's a shame Yoshino Aoki mostly works on games I don't play. The BoF4 soundtrack is so wonderfully off-beat, I'd love more of it. She can do the standard JRPG tunes well enough, but she's amazing at otherworldly mystique.Thousand Wings contains perhaps the best gamelan part in any game I know.

I'd very much rather play it, but last time I started Virtua Fighter 5 I only got terrible connections and ended up watching my own replays instead. It was pretty entertaining. I'm not good at the game by any means, but I'll be damned if I didn't have some great matches every now and then.

Yes. I'd personally recommend not going in expecting of the best films of all time, but its excellence is out of the question. You're not going to regret it.

Ouch. I mean, I get, that does sound pretty DX7/D-50-ish, but, well, your memory betrays you. Outrun's music is genuinely great. Dated, yeah, but made by skilled musicians who cared: https://youtu.be/zco2kvLA3J0 I don't think SST Band ever released anything quite as lazy as that song up there.

Yeah, I ended up finishing the game on Friday. Only reason I wasn't through yet was because I spent so much time MIXING MY CHUNES. I adore that sweet little moment between "Aw, I solved a puzzle but this won't actually get me any further" and "…but enough about that, let's lay down some beats."

YES. When I first saw the trailer, I started musing whether this might become the most gorgeous 2D game (and thereby game, period?) of all time.

I was looking for someone to mention Samorost 3. Should've known it'd be you or Girard.

Oh boy, I just realized it took me a quarter of a year to read a quarter of No Longer Human. It's good, but I'm bad.

Jules & Jim. Was really good! Don't have a lot to say about it though. Georges Delerue is great.
The Two Deaths of Quincas Wateryell, the 2010 movie based on the Jorge Amado novel. Sometimes a bit tonally messy, but overall fun and surprisingly pretty with lots of texture. Thematically it's rather superficial, but when…

Ooh, thank you so much for that hint. Just last week, I think, I was talking about not knowing enough about German expressionist films. Just one question: Does it work as a primer or should I watch more films first to appreciate it better?

Oh, it's on Netflix! Not as buried as I thought, then. Watching some selected episodes sounds good, yeah. Thanks!

>That one episode of Young Indiana Jones Chronicles where Indy fights Dracula

Watched Fantastic Planet, which was about what I expected. I feel like I should enjoy it more than it did, though. On paper, this is right in my wheelhouse (I might describe it as Mellotron in movie form), but something about the execution doesn't really do it for me. Still enjoyable.

Which one was that? I'm glad you had a good time regardless, but to think you were so close to playing the awesome, awesome Mega Drive Yu Yu Hakusho. Ah, well.

NES Ghostbusters is the same as C64 Ghostbusters, correct? If so, I thought that was pretty decent.

"Love" and "terrible" is maybe a bit much, but I definitely enjoyed The Wing of Madoola more than it warrants. It has all the hallmarks of a so-so early Famicom game: wonky hit detection, erratic enemy behavior and so on and so forth. So many unplayed classics but this is what I stuck with? Weird. Makes me fear the…

The history of that exchange is actually kind of hilarious. Woodblock prints are surely among the first things that come to mind when thinking about Japanese art, right? In Japan, initially, making woodblock prints was mostly considered a trade, rather than art. Europeans became aware of them at a time when they were…

I will check this out RIGHT NOW.

The best thing about IMDb voting used to IMDb Vote History Analyzer, which either got shut down or couldn't handle the traffic. Pulled all sorts of info from IMDb to give you all kinds of interesting (to nerds) information. Which tags pop up most often in your viewing, who's your mathematically favorite director, what…