Best Action-Adventure Game 2023: The Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom

there are a lot of season finales that absolutely wrench the breath from your lungs and leave you broken on the floor, but i don't think there is any ending of a tv show in history that quite recreates the absolutely visceral impact of the blue lorry in the bbc merlin finale. like. the way it pans from the familiarity of avalon to the jarring realisation that the world is so different, but the things that matter remain, crumbling but sustained by hope and legend. how so much has changed, but merlin is still there, a relic of a time that should be in ruins, but remains defiant and out of place. the mundanity of our modern world that juxtaposes the legendary so sharply, and the sense of loss that evokes, like god. nobody was doing it like them.

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octopath being snubbed for best score is especially surreal like even if it isn't one of those big-time mainline game series that are typically showcased at the awards you absolutely cannot deny the unparalleled genius of yasunori nishiki's compositions. especially with the smooth transitions between the day and night osts in the second game and the individual character themes, the soundtrack perfectly encapsulates the scenic, immersive, and stunning atmospheres the game's world has to offer, as well as the intense emotional beats during each of the travelers' stories, and not to mention the godly boss themes, and it absolutely never fails to deliver. octopath is not just a game but a bona fide work of art in genuinely every aspect and it pains me to see it being overlooked like this. team asano features some of the most gifted developers in the industry and god forbid they deserve more recognition.

I think if they made SamxBucky canon it'd break me

funniest character dynamic on planet earth: divorce

im sorry but literally nothing is sexier than whatever the hell ianthe has going on during her necromantic duels with cytherea and silas. she makes an aegis of blood. she teleports from the floor to the ceiling and dissolves into a sheet of fat. she makes the air sizzle. she bites off a chunk off her own palm that she then spits out as a fucking missile. she grabs the blade of a sword with her bare hands. she says insane one liners like "i've tried the sister thing already, and i wasn't very good at it". please ms muir give us more necro duels i am begging

i was gonna watch the vgk-dal game to bandwagon the stars but then i realized that if i have to see hertl in that jersey even once it's literally my last day, and also mike grier's last day, on planet earth, so.

adventure time 🤝 utena

requiring so much trust from the viewer that there is a narrative payoff to all the setup that they will later deconstruct, a level of trust and dedication most people are not capable of, but those who have seen it in full know that it is the greatest show ever made

dear gods i adore horror tbh but i am way too sensitive to it

…and Lanayru Sand Sea in general

hhh found some photos of old disney trips from several years back and it just made me really sad that the parks are nothing like what they were back then anymore. i still feel like it was probably best in the 90s and early 2000s (from what i've seen in videos documenting that time frame, and from the few trips my fam went on as well), but i ended up visiting more often in the 2010s and i still really enjoyed it;;

i miss walking around and just drinking in the atmosphere and theming honestly. sucks that its a mess now and you're paying so dang much for lackluster quality and there's no room for spontaneous flexibility within your visit because of the stupid genie+ app and insane wait times for Everything. the fact that there's no real "off season" anymore because it's Always Busy is a terrible reality as well. *sigh*

YEAH........... YEAH..... LIKEWISE, NO NOTES AT ALL, THAT'S EXACTLY IT... Main antagonist deaths are often treated as "comeuppance," but that would be the ultimate comeuppance for Aoki. As it stands, the only people who actually suffer for it are Ichiban and Jo, and Ichi didn't even do anything wrong. Also please I'm positive there's more to wring out of Aoki and Jo for an essay 😭😭at the very least, I always love to hear your perspective!

"he'd made a social circle for himself where people predominantly liked him for the power and influence" <- incredibly Mine-core of Aoki btw (I also feel the rest applies a little in terms of Mine probably being very quick to write off people who Do care about him as not caring about him, as with Katase, but it's nowhere near the extent of the Arakawas)

Wait actually it's kind of funny... for both Mine and Aoki, I was so sure their endings would go a certain way. Mine and Kiryu'd fight Richardson off together and Ichi'd, I don't know, shield Aoki or hug him so Kume couldn't get to him in the first place, or after that INSANE direct parallel to Arakawa running to the hospital with Masato, he'd miraculously pull through like he did on New Year's. Tormented with visions of the better timeline... With Aoki in particular, it makes me want to tear my hair out because the moment of him choosing to put the gun in the locker was REVOLUTIONARY for the series, looking at the characters he was most heavily based on.

Anyway. Bottom line. These bitches need to hug it out. It was so evil Arakawa didn't hug Ichi at Omi HQ or on the waterfront like bro stop being """manly""" for five seconds you're ruining my life you're ruining your own lives

There'd genuinely be nothing more painful yet more satisfying for an antagonist than being confronted with the consequences of their actions and having to navigate life after having making those decisions, ESPECIALLY when it comes to mending the bonds that- for anyone else- would have shattered long ago. With Aoki being motivated by the want to be loved and appreciated for himself, it would've been nice to see him finally acknowledge that he did have that love and start to better himself as a result (however much he'd be able to while in prison anyway lmao).

The Mine and Aoki comparisons are so real though, I remember joking to myself about it days after beating the game but it just fuels my mental illness every time I think about it ☠️ I LEGALLY AM NOT ALLOWED TO GO OFF ABOUT THE Y7 ENDING I'VE DONE IT TOO MUCH it makes me so mad every time I think about it 😭 ESPECIALLY THE PARALLELS WITH ARAKAWA AND THE LOCKERS UGGGHHH IT COULD HAVE BEEN SUCH AN EPIC CONCLUSION WITH THAT... Arakawa running from the lockers at the start of Aoki's life compared to Ichiban running from the lockers and getting Aoki to the hospital so Aoki can restart life I'm Going To Kill Someone (myself) (in Minecraft)

Giggling, twirling my hair, watching Batman Begins

so. i just nearly died.

Idk if you’ve been asked this before, but like how do you feel abt Aki’s english dub voice? If not, who would you recast? (personally I hate it, I feel like it would a lot more raspy and youthful. He isn’t that old T-T)

the dub is okay, to be honest I hated it in the beginning but over time it's kind of grown on me, like it doesn't sound right but I get a bit of ironic enjoyment out of how silly everything sounds if that makes sense 😭😭😭 I think aki's voice is a bit too mature... he sounds like he's 20 pushing 45

honestly the whole chainsaw man dub is ridiculous, I don't know to feel about it but whenever I watch it I always end up bursting out laughing at least once per episode because of the ridiculous line delivery and dialogue changes lol