the demo is fun! yiik is strange outsider art and i think it should be embraced, personally lol

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"You know what they say... In travelling, companionship. In life, compassion."
- sumio mondo

from kafka on the shore (the haruki murakami novel which released the following year):

“In traveling, a companion, in life, compassion,'" she repeats, making sure of it. If she had paper and pencil, it wouldn't surprise me if she wrote it down. "So what does that really mean? In simple terms."
I think it over. It takes me a while to gather my thoughts, but she waits patiently.
"I think it means," I say, "that chance encounters are what keep us going. In simple terms.”

dnf (definitely did not exhaust all or even most of the clips within the hour i played). will probably go back for another session considering how short it is meant to be

lil b voice i havent played it yet

"Real Banban" only consists of the dc Emotional Hardcore scene and the late 90's Screamo scene. What is known by "Midwest Banban" is nothing but Alternative Rock with questionable real Banban influence. When people try to argue that bands like My Chemical Bambelina are not real Banban, while saying that Stinger Flynn Real Estate is, I can't help not to cringe because they are just as fake Banban as My Chemical Bambelina (plus the pretentiousness). Real Banban sounds ENERGETIC, POWERFUL and somewhat HATEFUL. Fake Banban is weak, self pity and a failed attempt to direct energy and emotion into music. Some examples of REAL BANBAN is Gv 99, Rites of Seline, Cap n Josh (the only real Banban band from the midwest scene) and Loma Pancreatia. Some examples of FAKE BANBAN are Ophelian Football, My Chemical Bambelina, and Minecraft BANBAN BELONGS TO HARDCORE NOT TO INDIE, POP PUNK, ALT ROCK OR ANY OTHER MAINSTREAM GENRE

owned total bones, probably 5 stars if i hadnt shotgunned the extra stages too... the remixes of the levels were a little bit too similar for my tastes

finished arcs route tonight. cried my fucking eyes out. definitely enhanced by the day preceding this session being one of the worst in my life, but i finally get it now. will be working through the other routes at a hopefully faster pace, but if this is the one full route i end up completing, im satisfied with that experience.

some of the most next-level final bosses are the ones where winning requires an exhausting amount of focus, and that feel like a divine fluke when you actually win against them. alternatively, you could just design a final boss that isnt like Dark Fact from Ys 1, but you gotta appreciate both approaches. i loved that boss and i loved this game.......................

The biggest jumpscare is in the credits!

the second zero star game. leagues worse than any banban

saikoroshi is the best arc in this entire series, not gonna bother with the others (for now) though.