Ratsune
2021
Surprisingly the most easy to play final fantasy for me I've actually played, I didn't do the thing where I put the game on hold near the end and leave it like I did with others. Now I wanna play stranger of paradise but I'll just move on to 2 because I can't actually play stranger of paradise RIP really curious what it does knowing the ending.
2022
This game definitely deserves deeper analysis than what I'm gonna say on backloggd.com but I will say some things. First off, this is an extremely dense game in terms of what subject matter it chooses to focus on. I don't mean just the stuff you'd put in a trigger warning, at one point it starts using the term military-industrial complex regularly and there's this part where it shows capitalism as something that is worshipped like a deity, again in a very direct way. I've seen people say that some anime and games have anti-capitalist messaging if you look a bit harder but this one is extremely direct, the fucking motto of Earth's military is "Mankind will consume you". It isn't just about anti-militarism and anti-capitalism, those are some of the most blatant themes but it has a ton more. Extremely thematically dense game. I also like how surprisingly dynamic the plot is, there were multiple unexpected shifts and I greatly appreciate when a story does that.
After the new Layton game reveal I thought it was about time I actually start this series. This one's really good! Some of the later puzzles I didn't enjoy all that much but I had more hint coins than I knew what to do with by then so they weren't that bad. The art and music are phenomenal. Really excited to see where this series goes.
I don't like this in spite of the weird story, I like it BECAUSE of the weird story! fuck you! when the new characters with the designs that were more out of place than finding the hungry caterpillar in an adult bookstore showed up that was when I knew nobody is doing it like grisgris and that makes us all feeble cowards. the bizarre plot points like whatever the fuck was going on with the new teacher are my sustenance. that's why we haven't gotten more dead patient it would be too powerful.
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