ostensibly political but rly more of an aesthetic manifesto/individualist thing. doesnt bother to elaborate on "love" as the innermost principle of making good art as if everything including language were a sign for it. video games made by indies and industry devs alike r made for gamers (latently fascist white/asian dudes) and not real people with any remote amt of individuation. the contrast btwn part 1 and 2 (what games r v. what games can be) reads like stuff i myself and my friends have thought which is assuring. really the only thing undermining this is that this user thinks kingdom hearts is an example of a good video game when i cant think of much that screams culture industry distraction-generator louder than a disney + anime rpg. cool to know there r people on the earth

re other reviews on this page, ill say again what was sort of implicit in teh above: i am not so sure the femininity is the point as much as the strict adherence to self-determined/discovered values, which is basically wht "love" stands for. titling and style is provocative in a way thats super interesting to me

Reviewed on Feb 08, 2024


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2 months ago

i was mostly talking about how the game's/manifesto's writing itself made me feel, and how it relates to my personal experiences with feminity. i mostly agree with your points, anyway.

just please, don't google translate me, if that was the case.

2 months ago

no need to single me out in this website, either. i am nor fascist, nor white, nor a dude.

2 months ago

@mari_maciota im rly sorry wtf !!! u r not reading it like i meant it at all and i feel awful for not being clear

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2 months ago

im really sorry i misunderstood what you wrote and thought you were criticizing this for taking too narrow an angle when i thought the narrowness was the point. you do not seem like you want to talk about this very much and i'm sorry i mishandled using ur review as a point of reference (it was j the most extended discussion of what i thought was the dominant idea on the review page). i rly want to say emphatically that it was always super obvious to me you are not the kind of person in that sentence where i try to explain what the game is saying and what cultural phenomenon its criticizing, i feel worst about the fact that you thought i'd meant that. i meant for the parenthetical list to make "gamers" say something more specific, and not for it to say that anyone who plays video games somehow fits that description. i also was not implying that the bottom paragraph is directed at people the aforementioned sentence describes. if you like, i'll remove your name from that last paragraph, or, if you think it prudent, the whole thing

re how i read ur review: i grew up speakin portuguese so i can read people online with enough effort and context

hope this was brief enough and i didn't take up too much of ur time reading this. pls take care! at the end of the day ur review made me happy liek its so good to read abt someone being loved

2 months ago

a million deleted comments i took a while to write this anyways ill mention ya again now @mari_maciota. sorry, again

2 months ago

it's all right, sorry that I misjudged what you wrote too. at first glance it just seemed kinda of a mean commentary out of nowhere, you know? i mostly wrote about how the writing made me feel somewhat insecure about things outside the scope of it's text, and someone commenting about it in a way that seemed to not grasp it's intent made me doubly insecure. but as i said in it, this is not the best platform to write about this kind of stuff, anyways

i would prefer that you remove my username, but there's no need to remove your review.

noctis is a beautiful game, and it's nice to see it appreciated :)

sorry for any misunderstanding. if you want to remove this argument in your comment, i will understand lol

2 months ago

nah im happy to leave everything but the mention. sorry i got u upset, friend ^^