Sean Gardner

@seangardnerxiv.bsky.social

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I had to put up with years of people going “I know Asmongold is rough, but he’s just doing a bit! So what if he’s a little toxic, it’s funny!! He has all this money and lives in filth, he’s keeping it real!!! Say what you will about him, but he has good takes on games!!!!” Worthless fucking cattle.

Zoh Shia’s real face having a perpetual slight blur baked into the model so it’s hard to perceive it even when it’s not thrashing around (which it never is) might be the coolest thing I’ve seen a Monster Hunter game do.

Not to continually harp on Dawntrail, but was there a point to Gulool Ja like at all considering he did nothing to humanize Zoraal Ja, had his role in Alexandria basically invalidated by Sphene becoming Queen again, and ultimately served as a glorified computer password? I like the kid, but… yknow.

I think between the hostile reception to a perfectly good Resident Evil movie and the FF7 remake adding a “skip all the gameplay” mode, the concept of people wanting to be part of a game’s fanbase out of FOMO rather than a desire to actually interact with the art form is really on full display.

We decided that Sean is able to bring Manami to and from reflections seamlessly with him using Ethos because she is always at the center of his mind and therefore has no difficulty going where he is.

“So… this means I can go too, yes?” The WoL thinks really hard about Alisaie around the time of Heavensward. She appears on the same rock as Alphinaud and Estinien, suddenly dying from poison.

Remember after freeing them from Vauthry, Alphinaud immediately lambasted the Eulmorans for their treatment of the disenfranchised without pulling any punches, and the message landed because he (and by proxy, the game) took an uncompromising moral stance on the matter? I think about that a lot.

I still think it’s really a shame that the last time Tural was meaningfully involved in DT’s MSQ was to hamfistedly walk back Koana’s parental trauma, a very interesting part of his character that made a point that some traditions are actually bad, and then perpetually shelve him.

The obvious reason some people are hoping that the woman in 7.56 is Ysayle herself and not her Fourth shard, unlikely as that is, is that Ysayle’s death was narratively unnecessary and has done so little to impact the story going forward, that it might as well not have happened.