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Cake day: June 3rd, 2023

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  • I’m gonna have to hard disagree on environmental storytelling. Not every story needs to be about a set of characters. Some stories are all about worldbuilding and mystery and discovery and that’s okay. It’s also okay if you hate those kinds of stories, but calling it “narrative homeopathy” just because you hate it is dishonest and arrogant. Some of my favorite books take place over generations with characters coming and going all the time and none of them really having any kind of narrative arc at all, but the story still ends up being one I enjoy. Does that not count as a story at all to you?




  • Ocarina of Time. I thought 3D games from that era had terrible controls and ugly graphics even by the standards of the time, and that’s only gotten worse over the years. Plus I just wasn’t really ever all that into the Zelda formula from the time between A Link to the Past and Breath of the Wild. For me Breath of the Wild felt like a return to form after decades of mediocrity.

    I don’t even really think Ocarina of Time is bad, exactly. I just resent the fact that it feels like everybody I know holds it up as the greatest game of all time when in my opinion it’s practically the definition of mid.