Aww, thank you very much for your kind words! That means a lot. I always hope my constant digressions are helpful as opposed to what I fear are instead absolute eyesores in text block form.

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Thanks for the info! I hadn’t heard of God Save the Queen before. I’ll have to check that out!

Yikes on Princess Maker 2! /comfort.

/cheer /cheer! It’s got Matt Mercer and Crispin Freeman doing voices for it too. Got a lot of promise in its foundations to instill the Yakuza mold with even greater storytelling greatness. Looking forward to seeing how it all turns out. 

Those videos are great. Especially about that Murder She Wrote VR episode. Ahh, early ‘90s idolization of all the possibilities of VR.

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So much potential for this to be amazing! And no BS license issues to rupture everything at the 11th hour either (/comfort Black Isle/Obsidian). Really the only reservations I could have about this concept is the potential to bite off more than one can chew.

Yeah, it’s a real shame about Phantasy Star III. I feel it’s the Dragon Age II of its time. A title that was rushed through production by the powers-that-be against the will of its dev team, salvaged from total irrelevance by an intriguing premise, yet still the creators were ultimately unable to cultivate that idea…

So true on Chernobyl. It’s magnificent but potent with its harshly wielded truths. I had to piecemeal it as well. I will say that no matter how dark it gets, it never forgets its humanity. Which both sustains its message and themes from getting untenably dark AND yet exemplifies the horrors being witnessed, because…

Any discussion regarding Heavy Rain for me definitely falls under the category of “I laugh lest I weep.” So much potential from this concept and resources wasted. But at least we’ll always have SHAAAUUUUUNNN~~!

Yeah, Chernobyl gripped me to the core and chilled me to the bone as well. Its truths are so potent, endlessly relatable, and just as you say, omnipresent in their existential dread, it feels like a cross between The Day After and John Carpenter’s The Thing to me. Only, instead of being terrified of the unknowing…

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I had a feeling those flashback sequences weren’t part of the original schematic for the movie. Oh well, agreed with above in that, conveyed in this quickly paced, impressionist manner, they were relatively unobtrusive (“OK, maybe not everyone rewatched the whole series before the movie, fair enough.”).

I’m so glad you ended up having a blast with the Enchanter series. I too found that trilogy much more fluid, consistent, and accessible than the Zork entries (iconic and wonderful in their own right though they still are). And just as you say, the magic system provides a solid backbone and scope to all you encounter.…

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Certainly! Always glad to give old school adventure game recommendations! Here are my picks for late ‘80s/early ‘90s—>

Welcome back! Glad you enjoyed the 2nd Metal Gear title so much. I suppose you could always play through emulated versions of Snatcher and/or Policenauts (Fan translated ROM only for that one) if you need a pre-MGS Kojima fix. Though those are gratuitously sophomoric (even by MGS4 standards) and have some very…

If you can think of a better way to transport a hamster to the future and then suck him out of a mouse-hole in that futuristic basement once he scampers in there... JUST so he’ll then be inexplicably care-free enough to run the treadmill wheel you needed him to zoom through in the first place, I’d LOVE to hear it,…

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