I thought Nausicaa was my Dune anime

can’t help but feel that so much of the confusion stems from calling these things “games”, and conflating “play” as movement through a possibility space with “play” as competing or taking on some arbitrary challenge

Nov 30th:
NiGHTS into Dreams - Dreams, Dreams (Adult Vocals)

Dec 1st:
Christmas NiGHTS into Dreams - Dreams Dreams - Acapella

the first time I heard "open the country. stop having it be closed" was an out of body experience

more of a sigma trait imo

Noby Noby Boy set me free

Katy Perry & Justin Trudeau have officially performed the water ritual.

Games that are basically visual novels / walking sims, done well: Boku no Natsu Yasume, Yume Nikki, a bunch of other stuff I'm not experienced enough to list...

When something is legitimately and straightforwardly a "video game" though, it becomes a lot harder to call it "art" imo. That said, Rez.

Games that reject "gaminess" and aspire to something like "interactive software art": Noby Noby Boy, Everything, LSD...

Games that are aware of themselves as games, but make a lasting statement by contemplating/subverting that gaminess: Earthbound, Undertale, Disco Elysium, Soulslikes...

The works of thecatamites, especially 10 Beautiful Postcards and Anthology of the Killer

Kazutoshi Iida’s Tail of the Sun

Keita Takahashi’s Noby Noby Boy

Yume Nikki and its imitators

“allergies? not interested at this time.”