That’s the thing that I and everyone else seem to love about it, it’s a fantastic proxy for the feeling of playing the games for the first time and that makes it engaging for people who don’t know the story or characters. Because the story and characters have been mostly unimportant until recently, and that’s not what got most people hooked on the games in the first place. I mean it partly was, but mostly for me it was about surviving horrors against the backdrop of a rotten MIC conspiracy destroying the city it was born in, the grundle-tingling feeling of unraveling a deadly mystery.
When i think about the pure distilled feeling of resident evil, I remember being the last one awake at a third grade sleepover with the gamecube controller in my hand, too scared to walk into the village because I can already see an impaled burning corpse from here.
I know Kojima gets ragged on for being esoteric and weird (which isn’t unfair) but I really do idolize his ability to hone-in on a vibe and communicate it to someone consuming media.
Like I don’t agree with a lot of the choices he made in Death Stranding but damnit if it wasn’t at least memorable and dripping with a VIBE. I can at least point to the issues I have with it and go “okay I see /why/ they did that even though I think it was a miss” and that’s cool.
He needs a writing partner.
A writing partner and someone to spray him with a spray bottle when he does a bigot. The bottle contains pepper spray cause I think that would be the only thing that would stop him.
I think that’s called an editor
Both would be welcomed changes tbh
Everyone’s parasocial movie nerd friend, Hideo Kojima.
idolize his ability to hone-in on a vibe and communicate it to someone consuming media.
He really would be an incredible fascist artist. Luckily, he’s not. He probably wiouldn’t be Kojima if he was.
I gotta watch this, if it comes on blorptube on sundays I will
we watched a camrip a couple of weeks ago on Friday but I’d be into watching it again
In a month or so there will be better streams of it. I watched it on my pirate stuff but it was still pretty “cam corder in movie theater” quality
The film is about the dangers of being a gig economy worker.
Talk about lofty praise. I’d be incredibly proud if Kojima said this about my work.
Id rove an hour to the theater. Had the chance to see either Digger or Resident Evil. Saw Digger. Don’t regret watching digger but I did want to see this
I found it pretty good. I think I wrote down. “What if someone was more average dude then Ethan Winters and the T virus stuff was already cranked up to 11”
But if you have any major no nos with trigger ID def check out “Does the dog die”
Also this is the guy who did Weapons and Barbarian.
AI?
spoiler
Anytime I see: This isn’t a BLANK. It’s a BLANK.
My brain says AI.
Would Hideo Kojima, director responsible for the most verbose character dialogue in the fucking universe, really need AI just to put some words down about a movie? If he didn’t care enough to write the post himself, I feel like he just wouldn’t have posted at all.
Dude’s more passionate about movies than games, he’d have to be dead to be AI slop posting about dumb American movies.
Not trusting AI is a pretty big part of a couple of his games too
It starts off reading like AI but then it gets somewhat esoteric and you realize quickly it’s way to insightful to be AI.
that formulation was scraped from somewhere
It’s the microblog, listicle (list article) style of writing from the 2010s.
I think it’s a Japanese -> ESL thing. Notice all the commas, probably because he’s reformulating how he’d say it in Japanese into English as separate clauses.
