A fantastic evaluation of my third 2nd or 3rd favorite FF. To expand on one aspect; to describe IX as a return to the series medieval style underplays what completely unique art direction this entry has. Instead of basing the aesthetic off of either Yoshitaka Amano or Akihiko Yoshida’s styles, both being the go-to…

That’s a bummer to hear. I’m currently enjoying the shit out of the flawed, but oh-so-satisfying Bloodstained and was really hoping for another successful nostalgic reboot. It still looks fun, so I may still get it, but it also lacks the soothing medieval fife music of the ActRaiser’s overworld.

I’d be completely onboard for multiple movies about momo, the Nepalese dumplings.

I guess this game deals exactly with the myriad problems facing retail delivery.

It looks like this game takes place in the timeline immediately after the characters grew into their likenesses from the original trilogy, but right before they got their new shirts. 

I like how uniformly terrible all Arthur cameos look-so unappealing and contrary to the style of the show- that they’ve just decided to lean right into it.

I guess a world where an anthropomorphic dog can own a regular dog also has other undefined strata between public personalities and their non-legal infringing counterparts.

Well, shit if it wasn’t a well-made commercial.

Eating shitty fast food and being an unimaginable creep toward the one person who would deign to kiss me is a painfully accurate summation of my teen years.

The best part of the double jump is the soothing, almost ASMR quality of it. That tap, tap motion is meditative and I’ll just double jump my way across whole game screens for the sheer soothing assurance of it. 

The sole upside of this shit last few years is the never-ending opportunity to come up with a new way to insult the president.

Haha! Thank you!

He could have all the lost knowledge of the Great Library of Alexandria at his disposal and it wouldn’t matter one iota since the indolent and pathologically uncurious slug will never process a new piece of information again in his corpulent life.

For real. The fact that gamers acted as a back door entrance to reintroduce far-right fascism back into the forefront of American political discourse is pretty much says everything.

This is fantastic. Why the blended civ-building game was born and died with ActRaiser (1) is beyond me. The action sequences were such a great palette cleanser between kingdoms.

Also, it was super hard! Which may only have been a liability for me, but for as gorgeous as the game was, the difficulty minus the most interesting aspect of the first made the whole thing a real letdown. 

I think the main thing that’s surprised me about this whole shitshow is the sheer number of people willing to really throw down in defense of kids being filmed in the bathroom by a team of loudmouthed strangers.

On the one hand, as this book review beautifully articulates, Jill Soloway sounds like an insufferable person in their own right.

This banner illustration is fantastic.

This whole thing, from inception to execution, has to be the work of a neural network AI.