Comrade

Alan holding a military laser shouting “LLLLYYYYYYYNNNNNEEE!!!!”.

Love the Cells At Work OP:

What I love most about this awful, awful article is that it is so pompous while making so many unambiguous errors. There is no debate over whether videogames were invented by the military (they weren’t). Arnt Jensen has not been “held aloft by the industry as a kind of auteur”. Or the idea that brain training games are a “booming industry”, and not a fad that peaked a decade ago. This guy basically played some games when he was a kid, and then nothing for decades (except some basic brain training apps on his phone), until for some reason playing only Limbo and Inside. Then he decided that he was entirely equipped to judge the entire medium based on that experience.

Behold! https://thebaffler.com/salvos/game-theories-hallman (Okay, it’s just the worst non-bigotry videogame article ever written.)

By the way, on the 8-4 podcast from two weeks ago at one point they casually use the term “shadow drop”. It’s spreading!

Someone mock up an edit of Three Lions, but instead of “football” coming home, it’s “Final Fantasy VII”.

I think the PC version is just the original port back from the 90s. SE have yet to make one that works properly on modern machines.

Double post, sorry.

That fixed it, thanks.

Anyone got a weird black border around the screen when they play this? They didn’t mention it in the Digital Foundry video so I feel like it just me. I’ve looked around for an option it might be tied to but I can’t find one.

English VO is fun for nostalgia, but the Japanese VO is better in every other way. It’s still not amazing, but at least people sound like they’re actually human now. Turns out Goro wasn’t supposed to have severe mental trauma after all.

You don’t have to go there at all. You get told to find “Charlie” and that the guys running the jacket shops might know about him. If you go talk to those guys they will just tell you he turns up around 7pm and you have your next objective. However, some of the other people you might ask around the town will mention Nagai Industries (the yakuza front) and then this is the topic Ryo will ask about when he talks to people. Eventually you find Nagai, and the gangsters there tell you to go talk to the jacket guys. So it’s completely missable, and I always did miss it.

I recommend playing these games with a decent guide (I suggest this one) because there is loads of stuff that’s extremely easy to miss. Today I found a small yakuza sub-plot that I hadn’t no idea was there despite having played the game many times. There was an office full of mobsters!

My mum died on Monday, and as the only son of a single parent (although a good bit older than Ryo), this game is oddly therapeutic as I’m sort of living a similar situation to Ryo in the game. Although I haven’t resorted to hassling random passers by and shopkeepers to see if they know a cure for cancer yet. On a more light-hearted note, I noticed that Fuku-san mentions that he started training with Ryo’s Dad when he was 15 and that he’s been with him for ten years. That dude is 25! He takes orders from a 16-year-old and keeps his money in a piggy bank! Fuku-san needs to sort his life out.