real as hell, was thinking the same thing last year too. nice to get around to *so* many arcade games but it just felt like having six meals a day and only eating a small portion of each

Exactly how I’ve been feeling seeing the discourse, narrative techniques being stripped from their context and used as a descriptive checklist is such a stupid way to approach this stuff

I think it mostly comes down to the use of camera angle, with fixed it can play into the tension but being able to see them prior in F/2R feels like this lmao

Patlabor 2 is like a shot of cold air straight to the lungs, Oshii in his element