i adore you video games that reconstruct the idea of the fourth wall, i adore you video games that make you think and question and imagine just for the sake of it, i adore you video games that redefine the entire genre. i adore you,
i love when narrators forcibly enter the story as a plot-influencing character. i love how the story ascribes a physical manifestation to the narrative to the point that it is personified completely. i love how the lens by which we view the story is shattered by introducing a person with flaws and logical fallacies and causes us to wonder if perhaps they were unreliable all along, to consider how much of the story could have been changed through their eyes. i love when the narrator, who used to be completely in control of the narrative they told, has that safety ripped out of their hands by an outer force that positions them as the one to be consumed. i love when the line between the watcher and the watched is blurred to the point that we can no longer see who's truly telling the story
if i had a nickel for every time there was a fun first-person puzzle/adventure game where you're led through various puzzles and challenges by a disembodied voice and theres also a corrupt company id have 3 nickels, which isnt alot but its weird that it happened three times
I can’t be the only one who thinks that those weird surreal worlds like ENA, Manifold Garden, Viewfinder and Superliminal are kinda like, the modern-day equivalent of the Fae, right?
Strange, alien landscapes; arbitrary rules and mysterious internal logic; a general defiance of everyday laws of physics?
An additional point ENA is nostalgia: Just look at the aesthetics wiki for old-school internet cottagecore: nostalgia for the wild and unsanitized internet/forest, an era where people in the internet forest could just do shit without corporations cutting down every tree and blocking every swear word online
hell, the old internet kinda is like a wild, untamed forest, old web design being as hard to navigate as the untouched woods
If this were a video essay I’d call it something like “The Internet is a dying Fairy Forest” or something like that
The violent urge I have to draw The Narrator and The Curator from The Stanley Parable, The Developer from Dude, Stop and Dr. Glenn Pierce from Superliminal all hanging out is so strong rn.