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Anyway, y'all. Thoughts?

But, the more I think about it, the more I'm uncomfortable with that moment of happiness coming on the heels of total genocide.

Does celebrating scavenging a little shred of hope count as a win?

The really beautiful part of the ending is the music. Two different songs which each on their own had been tragic ("mother, I'm here" being a *literal funerary song*) combined into something joyous.

(imo the way newgame+ works, plus some slightly altered narration on a second playthrough, confirms that a rewind doesn't change anything)

Which is... interesting. The moment that sold it for me was Zia saying "all of my best memories... happened after the Calamity, not before."

That, plus the heavy implication that rewinding time would just result in it happening again, made that being the Good Ending pretty obvious.

This is a game where the Good Ending leaves 1 + 3/4th civilizations annihilated.

The second was at the very end of the game: finding Zulf injured and trying to carry him out. Gave up the last dungeon superpower and can't fight, and there's dozens of Ura trying to shoot you down. Chugged health pots but only had so many.

This was right after it had been revealed that The Calamity was indeed a weapon of genocide.

Right then, I thought I was gonna die, for realsies and not come back. And, in that moment, I thought that was a fitting outcome.

There's two moments in Bastion that have really lodged in my head as game design I'm not gonna forget.

The first was the in-game achievement/reward for killing n "beasts of the wild"... which (I think for most players) was completed upon first meeting and then killing an adversarial human.

It took a goal you'd been working towards and then subverted it to show the racist, imperialist nature of your society -- without any words spoken.

I want someone I can talk spoiler-y stuff about Bastion with.

When you're saving the galaxy, failure isn't an option. When it's a handful of people trying to save themselves, it is. And there's faces to the hurt.

Pyre having narrative stakes that are small and personal makes it way more tense for me than save-the-galaxy plots are.

Augh, what the hecking heck is wrong with my back muscles today. Hella knotted and achey and ibuprofen didn't help.

There's some traffic signs near my neighborhood that say "Slow down! Think of the impact you could make"
and okay that is the Worst Pun.

Now I want a really detailed biome map of the left coast but I strangely can't seem to find any?

Aww yeahh going camping in the desert just in time for a heat wave ☀ ☀ ⛱ ☀

@emanate Hey, I'm finally listening to that mix you posted last week and: it's good. Definitely going some interesting places.

AwooooO!