Vista

Can't believe you can draw the Majima and Makoto parallels all the way down to "the brother they don't think they're ever going to get to see again has the same animal tattooed on them and in the same place as the guy who was responsible for sending them to be held captive and abused, and a crucial memory for them at the very beginning of this period of torment was asking this person where that brother was".

Driving around in first-person (usually a bad idea) in Cyberpunk 2077 as a netrunner build and using the self-destruct quickhack on NPC cars that annoy me or that run into me is the closest I can get to being able to explode bad drivers with my mind. It's like therapy. Oh you overtake me? You violate my right of way? Well your car is going to explode now. Idiot.

can I just say that we all owe Kojima an apology for Metal Gear Solid 2? He looked right into the camera and said “the future of information control will not be censorship, it will be drowning people in trivial noise and misinformation until people partition themselves into their own separate realities” in TWO THOUSAND AND ONE. Three years before Facebook existed. Kojima gave us the biggest Babe-Ruth-pointing-at-the-sky called shot of all time and we weren’t ready for it.

Raiden is a diegetic video game character who is an anxious millennial being told to replicate the past while living in different circumstances who is a parallel between the player obediently accepting the limitations of the game and a soldier taking orders. And he gets sexually harassed by the president of the United States of America.