... It’s a fun game mechanic?  Necrodancer was fun?  It’s not like this is Zelda Flappy Bird.

I mean, if you’re talking merchandising, Squeenix has been in that game forever.

I get what you’re saying but I just finished Ape Out and loved the shit out of it, and Minit and Ruiner and Gris (wait, Gris? Really? That was them?) were super little games too.

I WANT ROOM SERVICE!

I’m kind of worried, given that Ninja Theory’s first out of the gate for Microsoft with... a multiplayer shooter. Whee.

The Final Fantasy movie couldn’t land a single emotional beat. Otherwise, it was pretty much the standard ‘anger creates suffering, compassion creates peace’ narrative.

The Schreier giveth and the Schreier taketh away.

Game expected to come out sometime around the heat death of the universe is releasing this year?

It’s the experience for me. Whatever the hell it is, it’s not being phoned in or focus grouped. 

It’s a perfect game.

Itch.io!

Dude, if you’re putting out a zombie-themed, open-world game in 2019 you have to distinguish yourself in a crowded marketplace with some substantially stand-out titles.

The story was whelming.  I was whelmed.

I love maps. The two ‘world from space’ maps of the day and nighttime earth are also amazing - I used to have them on opposite walls in my room as a kid.

Given that one medium has zero bar for entry and the other has multiple gatekeepers, the fact that the majority of both is uninspired dreck with occasional flashes of brilliance is interesting.

Two comments about the great (as usual) podcast:

i hesitated to suggest that one, actually, because now i’m convinced someone will jump to the next most logical conclusion and suggest “ranch cheesecake”

Hard-Boiled Wonderland is kind of a split-novel, and part of it takes place in a world that... well, let me just grab from the wiki:

Hard Boiled Wonderland really is something special. Not sure if you’re at all an anime fan, but I felt some interesting thematic parallels with Haibane Renmei.