SJ Longthorne

"please don't do murder, we are a family" "I gotta though. Because the game hasn't shown all the flashbacks, you think it's because i have unfinished business about my psychotic father figure, but it will all be remdered pointless by two more flashbacks" "If you go im leaving"

gamers will literally watch two characters emoting hard and ignore the context and actions of their behaviors to stan them it's wild this ripoff of the walking dead is one of the most critically acclaimed games of all time for the vapid argument that "revenge is bad"

it reminds me of how people were like "promising young woman is SO GOOD" and the creator was like "no story, before my movie, has ever suggested that revenge... might be bad."

people will post fanart of joel and ellie being like ":) nice dad" and ignore that he literally doomed humanity because he's a selfish monster because their brain can't look beyond "these people hugged each other but with expensive graphics"

and if, as a critic, you don't say "this is as good as schindler's list" then one of the largest corporations on earth will send people to you to go "maybe you wanna rethink that HMM :)"

of course gamers, without provocation, will play a rockstar game and suggest no one has ever made a western story with the breadth and depth of that inconsistent, incoherent mess of a red dead redemption because they refuse to watch... literally any westerns

gamer desperation to be respected without engaging in any kind of media literacy results in people getting mad at anyone for suggesting games... might have a bit of work ahead of them. every game has to be this huge monumental work of genius that no other media could touch