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Hear, hear! High time the genre grew beyond leaves of non-diegetic notes arranged like so much lore salad.* Recreating FROM’s formula blindly, w/o consideration is meaningless.

*Doesn’t describe every Souls[like] per se, but it is an accurate assessment of the field as a whole (unfortunately).

Friend made this. Tried early build, kept me up all night.
If you like Lynch and expressionist cinema, play this.

Santaragione are also good eggs and for this to have happened is pretty shit.

Can pre-order here: www.gog.com/en/game/horses

The original game director for Milano's Odd Job Collection graciously worked together with us to make this re-release happen. He even gave us never-before-seen concept art and development materials that we translated and included in-game!

"Releasing localized versions of Japanese hidden gems in the West and to give them beautiful physical editions is an idea that excites us." - Red Art Games on Romancing SaGa: Minstrel Song Remastered International and Square Enix on the future of 'SaGa': www.rpgsite.net/interview/19...

After spending years focused on adventure game development with 2017’s Thimbleweed Park and then 2022’s Return to Monkey Island, Gilbert said that he was “thinking about something new” for his next game project. But the first “new” idea he pursued wasn’t Death by Scrolling, but what he told Ars was “this vision for this kind of large, open world-type RPG” in the vein of The Legend of Zelda. After hiring an artist and designer and spending roughly a year tinkering with that idea, though, Gilbert said he eventually realized his three-person team was never going to be able to realize his grand vision. “I just [didn’t] have the money or the time to build a big open-world game like that,” he said. “You know, it’s either a passion project you spent 10 years on, or you just need a bunch of money to be able to hire people and resources.” And Gilbert said that securing that “bunch of money” to build out a top-down action-RPG in a reasonable time frame proved harder than he expected. After pitching the project around the industry, he found that “the deals that publishers were offering were just horrible,” a problem he blames in large part on the genre he was focusing on. “Doing a pixelated old-school Zelda thing isn’t the big, hot item, so publishers look at us, and they didn’t look at it as ‘we’re gonna make $100 million and it’s worth investing in,’” he said. “The amount of money they’re willing to put up and the deals they were offering just made absolutely no sense to me to go do this.”

Had a lot of fun interviewing game design legend @grumpygamer.com about his career, but I'm sad we're not getting this abandoned, Zelda-like "open world RPG" project, apparently because the world of modern game funding is incredibly brutal.

arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/...

Tsui Hark's PEKING OPERA BLUES. 3 different women become involved in a plan to stop the President proclaiming himself the Emperor of China.

#4kuhd #preorder #terracottastore

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#tsuihark #brigittelin #hongkongmovie #hongkongfilm #moviecollector

Final Fantasy TRPG: Legend Edition by Mildra The Monk, Xanatrix Zadare A customization-centric interpretation of the long-running series of Final Fantasy TRPG fan projects.

I spent 4 years making a final fantasy #ttrpg
mildra.itch.io/finalfantasy...
It's free, and nearly 800 pages long across three books.

Course, all of these technically still apply to the title as-is, so it's not exactly a tragedy ;). Just feels as much like a non-native English speaker case as much as it is intended to emphasize the mirrored Ǝvil A Ǝvil connotation.

If I didn't before, happy you have led me down the path of enlightenment.

And Live A Life!

Not only that, but the thematic implications. If it followed after Give A Strive, would be a near match for both Live a Lie & Live Alive. Feels like we ended up with the Charlie Browniest "I got a rock" result instead.

Every time I see it, I am sad it *doesn't* rhyme with Give a Strive, real missed opportunity.

But yes, I know it's two Strives.

SOUP ROOMS by Kite Line, KIRA The latest in SOUP-like room tourism technology.

Huge thanks to everyone in the SOUP GROUP for their support, enthusiasm, and incredible patience with me on this project. SOUP ROOMS literally would not have been possible without them.

More SOUP-like experiences will be arriving from us in the future.

Stay tuned!

kiteline.itch.io/soup-rooms

I made a few rooms for this extremely cool project, go check it out!

Room 237 (2013) - Blu-ray Disc (UPDATED) - FILM FREAK CENTRAL **½/**** Image A Sound A- Extras B- directed by Rodney Ascher “A story of the supernatural cannot be taken apart and analyzed too closely. The ultimate test of its rationale is whether it is good enou...

Have you ever read the late, great Bryant Frazer on ROOM 237? A review that resulted in a funny/aggravating correspondence with one of the movie's participants, who also showed up in the comments section and continued to e-mail us every once in a while.
filmfreakcentral.net/2013/12/room...

I did a new set of subtitles for Arrow's just announced release of Peking Opera Blues coming next year. This one required taking certain creative risks to properly match the film's tone and energy (so I guess we'll see if that pays off).

Note: I Believe this will also be released in the US on the following day but there is no confirmation of that yet.

***ANNOUNCEMENT***

Coming on March 23rd on Blu-ray in the UK from @88films.bsky.social as part of their #Japanarchy Collection: #HelterSkelter (2012)!

Note: I Believe this will also be released in the US on the following day but there is no confirmation of that yet.

Eleanor Parker and Dennis Morgan lean in for a kiss against a forest background in THE VERY THOUGHT OF YOU.

My annual reminder that THE VERY THOUGHT OF YOU (1944) is possibly the loveliest Thanksgiving movie ever made. It has everything: romance via Eleanor Parker and Dennis Morgan; blacklist interest via co-screenwriter Alvah Bessie; great DP in Bert Glennon; and an underrated auteur, Delmer Daves.

Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’

Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’

This, right here, is the exact moment that leads to there being an “Orange Catholic Bible” in the post-Butlerian Jihad Dune future.

YouTube video by Peter Pringle The Epic Of Gilgamesh In Sumerian

I firmly believe you should not do “of all time“ unless you mean it, and Best Pop Songs of All Time could only be improved by Akkadian and Sumerian

youtu.be/QUcTsFe1PVs

Got 2 of my productions jobs on this list of @88films.bsky.social March releases, Mika Ninagawa's SAKURAN and HELTER SKELTER. Will bleat closer to release, but you can be sure they involve @blondekwaidan.bsky.social @theneonbanshee.bsky.social @jslaterwilliams.bsky.social @violetshrieks.bsky.social

I sympathize with folks who maybe can't play specific games, but there's no legitimate argument otherwise. You haven't played the game, unless you've actually played the game.

Four decades on, Juzo Itami's "Tampopo" remains unsurpassed as a wicked and delicious social commentary on Japanese society told through the lens of food. 👉 ebx.sh/pC51Lw

Wong Kar-wai's Gorgeous, Captivating "Blossoms Shanghai" Arrives on the Criterion Channel | TV/Streaming | Roger Ebert Wong Kar-wai's Blossoms Shanghai is finally here. It was worth the wait.

"Once you start watching it, you will be hooked,” promises @petersob13.bsky.social about Wong Kar-wai’s thirty episode series, BLOSSOMS SHANGAI. Streaming now on the Criterion channel with three new episodes dropping every week:

"Ghost Icon"

I love this.

Credits for Brent Porter (3D art lead) and Catherine Menabde (2D art lead) are shown here. There's a lengthy description of what they did, with a pastiche of various Demonschool characters underneath, messing around with a computer.

We did something different with the credits for Demonschool. We used this format: name, title, lengthy description of what they did. Often you see credits in games where you don't know what the credited developer was actually responsible for. We wanted to give people proper, actual credit.