living like WWE, get the belt put it on me
u gotta be kidding yourself if u think i’m giving up easy

i’m not sure what i had expected from minute of islands. i guess that may have been why it stayed on my wishlist for so long until a friend of mine graciously gifted it to me for christmas
the art is what pulled me in, like how could it not?
a beautiful arrangement of colour and giants. and you. and the weight of the world.
the almost 6 hours i spent playing, no matter how slow i was moving or the times the game stops you to say “hey, take a look” i felt like i was almost done. i felt like i was GOING and i was going to achieve my goal any second now, any minute

everyone saying the puzzles aren't great are right. but they're largely inoffensive and won't get in your way too much. i'm clumsy at all platforming and i did ok. if you don't like the art and if you don't like exploring you won't like this game. while they don't force you to go out of your way ever, they will ask you to walk back to the beginning of an area in order to leave to the next zone. it didn't bother me but i know it would bother some people. similar to a small-scale Hob you make a few shortcuts and you'll get out just fine

yeah I used to have friends. yeah i used to roll deep
til I ruined my health, ain’t been getting no sleep
i got sick of myself, i got sick of these dreams
getting bigger my eyes start hallucinating

you play as a young apprentice named mo who is stubborn and bratty and refuses to let anyone get in her way. she will do the right thing, the right way, on her own. always on her own
the land you all called home is decaying, the air is thick and noxious and you're getting sick. you'll run into family of yours who stayed behind (for you) while the rest of civilization fled. there is no time to sit with your uncle for a glass of homemade wine, no time to join your sister for a pot of stew.
mo will work with the giants, mo will help them power their machines and mo will cleanse the air again. there is no other way. if you stop you fail
if you stop it's all your fault
and then your grandmother asks for a favour and you get the chance to reflect

CURSING OUT FUCK THE WORLD IN EVERY LANGUAGE NOW WHO FEELIN JADED? I AM. I CHANGED INTO SOMEONE I CANT FIX

the final act of this game is definitely where it all starts to come together for me and mean something. i didn't like mo, but i think that's the point. i didn't like how slow the game wanted me to move and the way it would stop me as i finished single pieces of puzzles that i already thought had taken me too long. but again, i think that's the point. it's all against you, it's all against mo and there can only be so much time. you can't save the world, it's not going to wait
there are things bigger than you and you can run from your fear for only so long. SO long that there are people close to you ready to mourn you at any moment because you're always fucking running
but it's bigger than you, it's huge, it's tremendous, it's giant

play it or don't. but i can say that after wanting to play it for 4 years or something, i'm glad i did even if i probably won't be playing it again

yeah i did it all me