fake ass ludophile bro i've only played two games from 1998

between this and other VNs like a bag of milk, i'm really intrigued by games that fuck with player agency as a mirror to character interiority. it's really terrifying how Bao's use of pronouns switches from "I"/"me" to "we"/"you" in final act. your agency means nothing under the weight of her ego.

finished Moonlight Duelists; really beautiful, really horrific. maybe the most harrowing depiction of SA i've ever seen. not sure if ryona is a genre i'm willing to keep digging into but i don't regret my time w this one. it's got a lot of heart in it.

marathon prolly has the greatest thematic/ludic coherence in any video game ever, unseen since the likes of. hm. well, splatoon 3, actually. (think about it)

revisited Horizon Zero Dawn for some side quests. combat is cool, but open-world games still remain an untenable structure of play for me, i want the series of interconnected levels and zones. i know you can do it. the cauldrons and bandit camps are fun!

pragmata looks like the cool kinda PS2 genre-mixing goodie bag game i'd enjoy playing for an hour a day after classes but there's not a single device in my home capable of running it. they want me to sell my soul to the devil in a paper bag to afford a new pc brother #imgood