I'm with you. Well, sort of. I just finished Persona 3: FES earlier this week, which took me literally years. (Or more specifically, two attempts with an abandoned save game and a year-long hiatus in between.) And now my heart feels like its Arcana is The Hole. Or something like this.

It's not awful! It's great! To this day, it's the game that defines Zelda for me!

I can only imagine how bad that must have been. I once had some time to kill in Paris after a flight back from Korea, and decided to watch Hot Fuzz in a movie theatre. I was thoroughly disappointed.

Absolutely. Well, the simplest thing would be to say that it's "unlike everything else" in anime, but that would be both a cliché and underselling it. (It is unlike everything else in anime, though, but it's also pretty much unlike everything else in animated movies, and movies and TV in general.)

Also, whatever P'tit Quinquin was, it was glorious.

Ah, sorry then for expecting some kind of meta-joke or something that I didn't get. Rogue-like-likes (or
rogue-lites or whatever) have been such a fixture in my playing habits for the last two years that I erroneously expected everybody to be familiar with them.

It's a rogue-like(-like), which means that while a successful run will, in fact, only be around 40-60 minutes long, the challenging nature of the game (it has permadeath) means that you will probably invest hours before you see the end for the first time. (And there are dozens of different endings.)

I can imagine that this is difficult. From the top of my head, I can only come up with a few:

I can see the point you are making, but your examples strike me as a bit peculiar. Wouldn't you say that being bored by Little Inferno and being bored by Binding of Isaac are two radically different things?

Additional argument: It's not only about exploring different mythologies. In fact, there is an enormous wealth of European folkolore and myths that were never touched by games. (The same is true for Japan and North America, I'm sure.) In fact, I regularly lament the fact that virtually all regions in Europe would be a…

Granted, it is among the more entertaining of its ilk, what with it taking its inherent absurdity and running with it, but do you really miss the Doom book? Ultimately, it was not that great.

Wouldn't an even more obvious entry point be Prisoners of Love: A Smattering of Scintillating Senescent Songs: 1985–2003?

I have to admit that I'm not too familiar with the game myself, but the below mentioned Dustforce has a reputation of being a high speed, precise platformer that comes, incidentally, with its own level editor. Maybe that might be interesting to you?

I feel you, even though I wouldn't consider myself burned out yet.
It's just that I thought that 2014 would be the Year of Kickstarter (TM) for me, but in the end, it was not really that.

Yeah, for some reason, the part about the flesh wound on the leg that goes by unnoticed alone creeped me out in a way I didn't think was possible, conjuring images I'm not sure I have witnessed myself sometime in the past. I don't think I could make it through the movie, and I usually am pretty hardened when it comes…

I guess the "pretty well written"-part is largely due to the co-author, who probably had a bigger influence on the book than a lot of articles (this one included, which does not even mention him) do imply.

Well… French fries are French fries around here, but we call them "les French fries".

Unfortunately, going the Dragon Age route and have everyone sound like French knights fresh out of Monty Python and The Holy Grail isn't that much better, I fear…

Nice to see the spotlight turned on this movie — it really is astonishing to look at, but not as well known as it would deserve. The strings-as-lifestrings are such an obvious metaphor, but the scenes where they are violently cut from one of the puppets are brutal in a strange way…

Exact same thing here. I finished and loved both Demon's Souls and Dark Souls (even though I am really bad at PvP), and I had even pre-ordered Dark Souls 2… but about 12 hours in, I just wandered away.