Tetsuya Takahashi: "i skimmed the abstract of like 5 different philosophy books and arthur c clarke novels and i'm here to just vomit all that back at you for 70 hours without saying anything meaningful about any of it"

Me: "sounds bad"

Tetsuya Takahashi: "i've also included kung-fu and robots"

Me: "sounds sick"

Yoko Taro: (furiously taking notes)

Reviewed on Mar 11, 2021


9 Comments


3 years ago

just so as not to leave any doubt, I really do love this enormous himbo mess that has never heard of subtlety once in its entire life

3 years ago

Sometimes the "punch you in the face with themes" philosophy is the best philosophy.

3 years ago

ain't here to incite conflict but i definitely found this mess of ideas profoundly meaningful as a teenager...! just putting that out there. i was probably the ideal target audience, though: suburban kid raised catholic who already liked star wars and evangelion searching for deeper cosmic significance. all that stuff about the wave existence (collective unconscious) spoke to me. it's true, it is a total mess of influences and references, though i just had to object a lil bit to that "nothing meaningful" part.

3 years ago

you had me until yoko taro
xg has literally nothing in common with drakengard or nier

3 years ago

they both have shit gameplay
chandler has a problem reading things literally

3 years ago

i know what they're trying to say. it's just low hanging fruit at best

3 years ago

cope yoko taro fan

3 years ago

go play more sonic adventure bombad