Heh! when we were speaking I said as much and I’m delighted to see that when you google her name now, this comes up so people can find her.

This is such a great, amazing piece of writing to capture a really wonderful story, thanky ou so much!!

I legitimately have tears streaming down. There’s so much about this story that hits it out of the park. It’s like a mini version of Searching for Sugar Man.

Hey I’m actually the person who posted the thread on reddit! I just got messaged about it and I’m so happy someone with much better investigative journalism skills took up to contact her! Your article has made my whole year better!

One of the best investigative articles of game music journalism I have ever read. I have always wondered about non-Japanese singers and musicians working on Japanese video games. There is quite a contingent of ex-pats in Japan working in that industry.

I played Castlevania: Symphony of the Night many times and never…

You did the Lord’s work with this one, Ash. After the last piece on her, I set off to see what I could find, and came across some of the same things you did. I hadn’t realized how much I cared to find out more until you’d reminded me how much I loved that song. I’ll be honest, I’m surprised to see a follow up. This is…

I’ve only dabbled with jumping out of bounds a few times, but one of my favorites was an area in Final Fantasy XIV where you could enter a different zone without entering the loading screen. This is gone forever now due to the implementation of flying in all A Realm Reborn zones, but you used to be able to sneak out…

I’m about 30 runs into Hades and I’ve only made it to the double boss fight in Elysium. It’s very hard to see what’s happening in that small arena. I also messed up and dumped all my Titan blood into the shield weapon for some stupid reason. I wish there was a way to respec weapons. I'm really addicted to the game…

First up, son_limey came to visit this weekend and he brought his laptop, and Switch. The Switch didn’t get much use from me, but he’s happily doing his labor for Tom Nook.

What did get my (and LucklessWifeder’s) attention was Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout. I know almost everyone has been streaming it on Twitch, and it…

Maybe hit up GOG, they’ve got a lot of games cheap as chips (and cheaper still on sale) that were AAA or B-grade back in the PS2 era.

It feels like the “Endless game” thing started in earnest with Oblivion, which kicked off an open-world trend that lasted two console generations. Likewise the rise of modern roguelikes/roguelites came with the indie renaissance and Spelunky.

Big News! BIG NEWS! I Finally Won A Game of Tetris 99!!! 

uh no they don’t, if the console is set as your home console you can play digital games with or without a connection. source I had my internet drop for about 4 days last month and was able to play my digital games no problem (only ones that didn’t work were the GwG xbox one games and gamepass games (since both require…

The elements that say “Souls-like” to me are things like exploring a post-apocalyptic world, lock-on combat, ludonarrative synergy and a stamina bar.

The Nintendo ecosystem really is different this time around with the Switch. I hadn’t heard that Edith Finch was available for the Switch, but it seems like a lot of indie PC games are being ported to it. I haven’t looked into it, but it sounds like developing for the Switch isn’t the huge monetary investment that…

I personally found A Way Out to be an interminable dumpster fire.

You’ll have to start over with Obra Dinn, I think, but it’s so fucking worth it.

I’ve been rummaging through the PS Plus games library, games I didn’t jump at at the time but maybe there’s a gem somewhere?
So first I played Steep, the extreme sports simulator. The physics and the graphics are great. Snowboarding feels great, wingsuiting feels dangerous and fast. Oh, and there’s a rocket suit…

I’m in the trenches with you—I’m a warehouse worker for [REDACTED] Communications—so I definitely sympathize. Good job doing whatever it is you do; hopefully, it’s a useful and necessary service that simply has to be done with 100% workforce efficiency.

Well, thank you for performing your job at this time.