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Gaming, 2013
Feb. 3rd, 2013 08:51 pmI stopped gaming in order to write my Yuletide fic, or at least stopped playing anything with a lengthy storyline - I have been able to free hundreds of tiny cubes from increasingly complex block structures in Unblocked, and I've also been slowly bashing my way through the dungeons on Thunderstone (which is a deeply annoying port of the Facebook app, meaning that I can only play it on my iPad when I'm online). I picked up The Walking Dead somewhere in the middle there and am really enjoying it, but I'm still only on the first (free) episode.
However. I am now playing Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch (I have terrible trouble with the English title, which for some reason I just can't say without ending up with ws everywhere), which is a JRPG with art by Studio Ghibli. It looks gorgeous and I love the game mechanics, and these delights are so far getting me through the bits of 1950s gender roles the storylines keep banging me into (one of the gimmicks is that people are having pieces of their hearts stolen. A man loses his enthusiasm for "day-to-day life"; a woman loses her enthusiasm for "keeping her house in order" (her husband, not offering to help: "What's become of that energetic young woman I married?").). All the wife characters I've seen so far have, in fact, been oddly Stepfordian. If it all gets too much, expect sudden updates on FFIX, which has great female characters.
( Game description so far, spoilers until the Temple of Trials. )
However. I am now playing Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch (I have terrible trouble with the English title, which for some reason I just can't say without ending up with ws everywhere), which is a JRPG with art by Studio Ghibli. It looks gorgeous and I love the game mechanics, and these delights are so far getting me through the bits of 1950s gender roles the storylines keep banging me into (one of the gimmicks is that people are having pieces of their hearts stolen. A man loses his enthusiasm for "day-to-day life"; a woman loses her enthusiasm for "keeping her house in order" (her husband, not offering to help: "What's become of that energetic young woman I married?").). All the wife characters I've seen so far have, in fact, been oddly Stepfordian. If it all gets too much, expect sudden updates on FFIX, which has great female characters.
( Game description so far, spoilers until the Temple of Trials. )
