BeccaBytes

Obsession does such a good job in the first part of the movie of capturing the frustration you experience when a close friend fuckzones you.

I love how Pokémon Red (FireRed in the ref photo) casually made a reference to The Fly. You know, the R-rated sci-fi body horror about a man who accidentally combines himself with a fly in a teleportation accident.

Hi Becca!! I would like to know your thoughts on doing a playthrough of the game Blue Prince; it's a puzzle game that I would say is somewhat like Outer Wilds when it comes to the kinds of things you have to piece together. Basically your grandfather bequeathed you his mansion and you get to keep it if you can find the hidden 46th room of the 45-room mansion, but there are many other secrets to be found

One of the best storytelling choices in Project Hail Mary is that Grace is portrayed as a person who’s fully capable of making friends long before he meets Rocky. The story doesn’t go for the “friendless loner makes his first real connection” trope. Grace already *has* friends and forms meaningful relationships with people like Eva Stratt and Carl (in the movie) and the crew (in the book) on Earth. The flashbacks are just as dedicated to highlighting that as they are to explaining the astrophage research.

I'm rereading my notes (for that video essay I'm working on) and looks like we got the "sunny is imagining the OST" idea at the exact same point of the game.

Omori is one of my favorite games I've worked on editing a let's play of because there's soooo much stuff in it that I catch in post, that flew by me when I didn't know... well... you know. I've never seen another game just work in as many visual metaphors as this one did, and then just HIDE THEM EVERYWHERE. Spoilers ahead! The most recent one was during the lake battle sequence, I caught something in it that I hadn't noticed when I first played the game.

Whitespace’s/Omori’s theme is also heard in the Celestial CD! Is Whitespace’s theme secretly based off of something to do with the Captain SpaceBoy comics/games… or is that just a hallucinated part? It’s everywhere. Phobia themes. Place By A Lake. Blackspace (distorted, but the rough leitmotif is there). Space Road 1979. Not-So-Empty-House. It’s certainly food for thought! I love how he’s not entirely a reliable narrator (early-game for the most part). We don’t know what’s real and what’s not. Just like him.

Is the music that we hear in Faraway Town in Omori actually diegetic music that Sunny himself is imagining? Diegetic sound in film/games basically means sounds that are actually happening in that world vs non-diegetic being a backing track only the audience perceives. The reason I think music like, “Finding Shapes in the Clouds” is diegetic is that it ONLY plays each day after Sunny settles into wandering around the town. On 3 days left you don’t hear it until after you go to Hobbeez vs on 2 days left it plays immediately after you finish the initial conversation with Kel. It’s not just sound that plays anytime you’re *not* in a cutscene, it starts at pretty specific times.