Nocturne! Everyone’s nonwoke fave. Starts with a tech bro destroying the world bc he thinks he can do it better and spends the next thirty hours dissecting how power structures gatekeep in order to promote bigotry, isolation, and suffering. These losers side with the angels then get played in Hell

I listened to the soundtrack first somehow and that’s what led me to play the game! Still one of my favorites

My experience with learning photobashing was that it was already a makeshift tool used to accommodate the extremely unimaginative stakeholders in a project who refused to engage with sketches (in my very specific design field.) So framing AI as an improvement on that is

I think Pax Deorum, Tempus Vernum, and Cursum Perficio are how the LOTR soundtrack -> Enya -> metal thing happened to me when I was a teenager

The BoF artbook is really interesting for comparing styles across the series

Breath of Fire IV is a favorite of mine and my sister’s. The wind city music still gets stuck in my head out of nowhere