Sundays are spent digesting turkey and/or roasting nuts. Before you take a break, read this week’s best articles on the game.
On Eurogamer, Christian Donlan wrote about Brewster’s return in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, the bird that defies too much video game logic. A really cool look at the seemingly pointless interactions in the game.
Witness. I’m excited for Brewster not just because he’s an old friend, and not just because his cafe is the perfect video game venue – wooden bar, polished surface feel, brick lovely feathers and pendant lights. Not even because when Brewster returns, so is his melancholy, melancholy soundtrack. No, I’m super excited for Brewster because he breaks a lot of what I think has been established as video game logic up to this point. You pay for an interaction with Brewster which, on the surface at least, seems largely pointless.
For Jalopnik, Adam Ismail wrote about Racing Lagoon, a game that was previously inaccessible to Western players for 22 years, until a group of fans fixed that. Not only is it an interesting look at a forgotten Square Enix racing game, but also at the challenges surrounding localization.
“What makes Racing Lagoon is the synthesis of its parts,” says Hilltop. “Sure, games like Midnight Club have a story and cutscenes, others have an open world, and others have some customization features. But nothing has the whole package like Racing Lagoon. . [Square] really put in the effort behind all these different aspects, nothing is just thrown aside. Even today, it feels great to win a close-quarter race and be rewarded for taking over your opponent’s engine. “
For Rolling Stone, Alexander Darwin wrote about Anthony Bourdain’s Lost Diary. Bourdain posted anonymously on a martial arts forum as he practiced Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. They are humorous and eye-opening stories about his battle against sweaty warriors, as well as addiction.
After 45 minutes of lounging and burping, it’s time to roll over. Someone put on Rupert Holmes’s “Piña Colada Song” and instantly the 270 lb former wrestler was knocked over by his girlfriend, furiously leaped over my guard, slapped me on the side control, and hit the weight. his into my jaw. He was wearing a new but dirty Atama gi. It feels like a piece of cheese against my cheek as he grinds against me. I could hear my teeth making terrible sounds and was certain that my crown would explode at any moment. Jabba The Wrestler was eaten at Subway. I can smell the pre-cut, sour, rancid onion on his breath, which sadly doesn’t mask the horrible miasma of the swampy ass rising from his sweat-soaked thighs his stink. As my teeth gave way, the music turned to “American Pie” by Don Mclean. I pray for death but I am already dead.
For The Washington Post, Nathan Grayson wrote about how Twitch and McDonald’s stars teamed up and entered the metaverse together. A look to the future?
That IRL event showed the limits of the intimate, intimate live-streaming project that served as the foundation for the appeal of streamers versus the more conservative, traditional stars. . After a certain point, the star is the star, no matter how cold and approachable you make yourself seem. If there were enough eyeballs to track your every move and enough hands to reach out and touch you, you’d have to become something else – something removed from the general public, if only for your own safety. your own safety and sanity. It seems that even a virtual space, not limited by the physical world, can’t completely change that. No human can be everywhere at the same time. But a brand can, in a way, be – at the expense of being an authentic, face-to-face person.
This week’s music is Frappe Snowland from Kenta Nagata’s Mario Kart 64. This is YouTube link. A winter trip full of nostalgia.
And there’s Sherbet Land from Mario Kart: Double Dash for good measure, composed by Nagata and Shinobu Tanaka. This is Youtube link. An updated winter ride, but no less nostalgic.
Finally, I just want to say thank you. Thanks for reading these Paps, for commenting on nice things, for discussing stuff, for just switching to RPS and clicking on the words. A bonus thank you for reading any of my nonsense. I hope you have a Merry Christmas, a wonderful New Year and stay safe there.
See you all in 2022, slowly!
