Game Center CX - Umihara Kawase.
Team ICO
ICO
Shadow of the Colossus
The Last Guardian
I've never loved anyone as much as I love Ursula Le Guin
this is fucking beautiful
hysterical to me
cryptmaster soundtrack (by me!)
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hi friends! my moody soundtrack for the game "cryptmaster" is releasing alongside the game on may 9th! i drew inspiration from my childhood years playing AD&D in the basement of a game shop, while giallo horror movies played on a CRT in the background.
i'm extremely excited for how both the game and the soundtrack came out, it was super fun and i had a blast working together with stemage on guitar and catton arthur on bass. thank you so much for your support!
UHF (1989) // Dir. Jay Levey (Written By: Jay Levey & "Weird" Al Yankovic)
kids version
every fucking day brother
A trees growing up in abandoned silo, Oklahoma, USA,
The 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie is obviously not without its flaws: its production was not only hell for the actors but it was also, frankly, dangerous, and in retrospect it was definitely not the sort of film Nintendo wanted to attach their flagship franchise to. But much more so than the 2023 film the film understood that film and video games are two completely different mediums and that gameplay as it is shown in a video game is mostly a contrivance to grant players agency over the action. You can't make a film about an Italian man jumping on turtles and driving go-karts because jumping on turtles and driving go-karts are simply means of utilizing the language of video games towards telling the story. A video game movie that simply translates the act of gameplay (down to a progression of "levels") into film simply turns the player into a spectator: the interactivity lost the viewer is reduced to a passive recipient for what would undoubtedly be a fun set piece to play but does not serve any major narrative function,
The bank robber on the phone with the hostage negotiator: Please just send the SWAT team in to kill us all
unfortunately the United States’ position as a global hegemonic superpower and a capitalist nation means that something like narrative cohesiveness is not rewarded, and pretty sparkles and brand recognition are ultimately shameless cash grabs that create a pristine, hollow product devoid of meaning outside of the associative to those that pay attention. the identity crisis of late stage capitalism is that we are so estranged from our own identities that our media doesn’t stand for anything, especially not our own authentic experiences
The bank robber: Oh god not you too
Return to Action
“You’re hurt? Too bad. You stop fighting when I say, and not a moment sooner.” —Satoru Umezawa
Artist: Jeremy Wilson
This played before or after Tenchi back on Toonami’s the Rising Sun.