madimpossibledreamer

“I thought I told you to get here straight away”
“Old man this is Kamurocho do you know how many bullshit things happened every two feet along the way?”
“...I suppose you have a point”

Okay, am in fact watching Shinri play SH2, and. They are doing a lot better than I expected, but also, uuuugh I don’t like their direction with Eddie either. The over-the-top sinister vibes + the fatshaming take they’re going with it is not cool. So far, they're doing fairly well with the mental health issues but they’ve got more writing/direction decisions to go.

I haven’t watched a playthrough of the new Silent Hill 2 yet (that might have changed by the time I post this) but everything I’ve seen says it is surprisingly good and Bloober didn’t mess it up. I would like to point out that that doesn’t mean we were wrong about Bloober before, merely that people and teams have the capacity to change and listen to criticism. I am not just parroting statements I’ve heard elsewhere. I liked Layers of Fear the first time I saw it, but on a rewatch I did notice a lot of the ableism (I’d been previously oblivious to it and still overuse a lot of ableism to this day but am trying to improve). I watched several playthroughs of Blair Witch (unfamiliar with original movie) and was bored enough that the only thing that kept me going was that I was trying to watch all of Mark’s and MrKravin’s work, right up until the end in which I went “you are the monster, the only way to stop it is to kill yourself” and went ‘wait huh??’ Every character and the plot was really judgmental and not very sympathetic to PTSD sufferers. The Medium was boring enough I didn’t even make it through the first episode of Gab Smolder’s playthrough, so I’m sure I’m missing some context. I did watch the entire part with the, uh. Was it called Child-Eater? And the flashback, and then the ending, and went ‘this is telling the same message as Blair Witch’. I came to those conclusions independently and also it killed any drive to go back and actually finish watching Observer. After hearing they did well on two of the games in their library, maybe I’ll actually go back and finish that one too. I also saw some ‘this is exactly like DmC’ comments by the usual suspects and just had to roll my eyes. Yes, the bugbear that people can’t let go of ‘customers not spending money on something that wasn’t made appealing to them based on marketing’. DmC turned out to be a decent game, but the issue there was that it wasn’t made for fans of the original as the endless mockery from the PR team made clear and wasn’t meant to be. You could like both, but in the same way you can like both thrillers and romance novels or both vanilla and chocolate or strawberry. Fundamentally, the flavor is just different. You cannot and should not attempt to make something that appeals to every single person in the world, because you have a target audience (of people who like vanilla or chocolate or strawberry, for instance). Here, SH2R is turning out to be a very good game that appeals to the fans, and the criticism might have been a good thing because it seems like they were actually humble enough and cared about reception enough to listen—to the remaining members of Team Silent, to the fans—when crafting their game and did, in fact, want the original fans as their target audience.

also this is wild because I legit had been considering writing a spinoff(?) of Slayers’ Mad Whelp with him ending up in Sunshine with amnesia so the parallels are fascinating

A lot of people for Crow Country were like “what the hell who says Mara can’t smoke” and I’m like...her doctors? Have you never actually had to deal with doctor’s orders forbidding you from doing certain things with a health condition? You’re lucky, but...legit, have you never even heard of that? (Honestly, my first thought was cancer, but.)

Crystaahhl describing her dream of finding Edgeworth dead in his office and I’m just like...it’ll turn out fine but maaaaan is she not ready for Justice for All, aaaaa.

I was in the mood so I went back and watched a few House Flipper let’s plays, and, uh. It’s not the same. The game is exactly as I remember, but maaaaaan the classism and sometimes the sexism is not even hidden, but it’s on full display. Stains are gross and even a bit leads to calling things a “pigsty”, which is messed up in its own right (as that could easily lead to racism too, particularly with how many minorities make up lower classes). There was one house where the parent got a divorce and disowned her kids and the guy was going on about how sorry he felt for her for losing her kids (?!?) right up until the point he found an unmade bed and then went ‘you know, she was probably a horrible mother’. I actually like the trend since the pandemic where people realized we don’t have to pretend we’re all perfect robots. No shade on you if you personally like things to be neat and tidy; we all have different preferences. But it’s good that we’ve stopped shoving women in boxes quite as hard, because I’ve seen my mom’s anxiety spike every time we have someone over and she doesn’t have time to vacuum for the fifteenth time and move a few things that show the house is lived in out of the way, and it’s not intrinsic; she thinks she’s an absolute failure of a woman and wife if she doesn’t. It seems a lot like a way to keep women busy and “in their place”, even if they work or do other things with their time, and it sucks.
And of course I didn’t notice any of this stuff when I was a kid. Well. Not that I was a kid. That was 10 years ago, which is a long time, but still.

so the ninja sidequest is kinda cringe, but--I find it absolutely fascinating that Yagami just looks at sex appeal and goes 'huh?'    so while i'm not sure he's fully ace, he very definitely might be on the ace spectrum

kaito and yagami in phasmo thooougggh