Death Stranding is also Kojima’s Final Fantasy Eight. Disaffected loner who doesn’t want to connect with people travels across land to find his sister. Time-space shenanigans occur.

If you’re into this, you might also be into Amanita Design’s adorable little puzzler Chuchel. 

Give me a story to care about and I’ll be there with bells on.

Wattam is the new game from the Katamari Damacy guy.  I have hopes.

Oh man are you in for a treat.

The moral of the story is, if you only work one job (and it has relatively traditional hours), being single and in your 30s is kinda awesome. It gets boring and a little lonely on occasion, but also, I get to do whatever the fuck I want. Eat it, society.

If you’re bored, I think the Supersizers Go Victorian episode includes the baking of one of Queen Victoria’s meat pie recipes, which was the original inspiration.

CHRISTMAS MEANS CARNAGE

I’m not sure I’ll ever have the nerve to try and make a British meat asteroid, but it certainly sounds delicious.  I love the history, too.

No.

Considering this article’s focus on trends of the decade, it’s also important to look at the idea of badly ending long-running stories with the increasing corporate interest in fictional connected universes.

Dark Souls-style Vagrant Story remake would be so amazing. Not that the combat system of the original is bad, but when I think about all the things they could do with enemies, the whole design and potential for an even more massive and intimidating Lea Monde.. there’s just so many possibilities.

ZeroJapan Salt Box. Useful and pretty. I’ve given several out as gifts as well, and people seem to really like them. Comes in lots of nice colors, well put-together, not stupid expensive.

I am baffled it doesn’t have a bigger presence here on the East Coast or even the Midwest. It’s hot carbs and meats and great to have a beer with. You can put mayonnaise on it. How is this not the next big thing.

It just feels like being a kid, who increasingly gains more responsibility, with no psychological pay off, haha.

The focus on passing time in one town that DAII did really helped some of those story beats, like the whole necromancer thing and the slow build with the Arishok, punch so much harder than in other games.

Not with that narrative.  Nope nuh uh no sir.

All the quiet commentary about this game being a hidden gem inspired me to finally pick it up. It’s on the backlog but I want to try and get to it before the end of the year. So hat tip to you and other commenters - it is not in vain.

Aeon Flux. Yes. What the hell was that.

Binary Domain and Remember Me were inexplicably narratively flawed. All the pieces were there, but it’s like they got right up to the edge of some really great ideas and then just... didn’t bother.