KIDNEY

I suggest game developers invest in arcades soon. We're in a social environment where home gaming will become less accessible while tech companies are desperate to turn a profit, internet crackdowns & slop will condition people to be offline, and gamers will need a social space.

okay the ocarina remake justifies itself like an hour in. You beat the first boss and suddenly it starts hitting emotional beats in its cutscenes that the original either didn't or couldn't. it's actually quite impressive

those secret theatre couple reels hoo boy

Nintendo might just be the only platform publisher where every single one of their in-house subsidaries exudes complete creative confidence. Outside of Japan, you only really see that sort of AAA courage in studios like Valve and idSoftware.

listening to portishead for the first time and i see why i fuck with deadlock so much

The only thing better than Lateralus is Pitchfork's 1-star review of it

imo this kinda confirms how insecure Aonuma has become in his ability to make games, which obviously comes with helming a franchise that spent over a decade being criticised for either being too iterative or too different

we need to take a note from cyberpunk and bring the term "cyberspace" into our modern lexicon. It feels like the right to define the strange, heightened, non-real Other World that we're transported to from within our phones

Got to that point in uni where you actually need to be passionate as well as talented now I'm nervous as fuck

Showcase scene partner drunkenly texting me asking to spend casual time with her for "character building"

it's almost unbelievable how slow it's burning and i kinda love it