eidolon @shaderphantom@awoo.space

Something I really appreciate, both for its accessibility and its ludonarrative resonance with the theme around Headspace, is that each of the main endings, particularly the Good ending, is accessible without completing arbitrary tasks earlier in the game. The final decisions are ultimately what counts, and it doesn't try to obfuscate the impacts those choices will have.

The game also doesn't force you to experience other endings if you don't want to, just to get the Good ending. It respects you for not being ready for more pain, and pacing yourself.

I feel like this is particularly important given that OMORI is published in a time period where people are extremely isolated and vulnerable to reclusion.

Really impressed that Steam's concurrent player count for OMORI during the day in the US and Europe has reliably been around 2.5k since release. That's a strong showing for an RPG Maker horror game.

I have been sitting here in silence since the ending for 10 minutes. I am in awe.

OMORI is the most moving and painful narrative piece I've ever experienced.

[halo announcer voice] ODD PAW.

PLAY PAW.

OMORI is good shit 👌

so I've been playing FF8

happy 20 years of Phantasy Star Online!

FF8's junction system is fuck-busted

In monochrome melodies,
Our tears are painted in red
(bleeding to the edge)
Deep inside,
We're nothing more
Than Scions and Sinners
In the rain
Do Light and Darkness fade
Oh...

heard there was games

Aria action pose 🦇

character belongs to pinnapop on birdsite

#mastoart #art

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-r2BCiWtLM earworm track

https://youtu.be/EiDczV9lrkU THIS IS A FUCKING BANGER HOLY SHIT

Ugly unfair feelings being foisted into conflict and people trying to figure out how to deal with them in raw scenarios where there's no turning back. Vulnerability where it doesn't feel like things can work out. Scenarios where people's bad feelings are acknowledged but not coddled and they are forced to confront them. Gimme that shit.

I'm sick of happy endings. Give me stories where people leave conflicts half resolved and personally broken, figuring out how to pick up the pieces and move on as the resolution. That's the real shit. No more "everything works out in the end" that shit's fake

Thanksgiving and Christmas are going to kill a significant chunk of this country before a new administration can even do anything about it.

Oh, also, I have to self quarantine again probably. That won't stop my family, of course.