MobileSuitLilah

Quaint Witch, Sad Enchantress

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Incredibly based gay trans woman poster 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 | Lover of books, music, and video games ✨| Happily married to @milktea ❤️ | Icon by @peachparfait

Praise for @MobileSuitLilah

“Lilah is maybe the internet’s greatest poster…a unique and very funny sense of humor…her jokes are specific and experimental while still being accessible to a mainstream audience”
The New York Review of Posts

“Men you may not like it but…[Lilah’s posts are] what peak performance looks like”
— Virginia Woolf, author of Orlando

“I’m a huge admirer of Lilah’s posts to the point that I left my wife…only then did I discover Lilah is gay and had also never heard of me”
— Jonathan Safran Foer, an author I guess

"Lilah's posts were a huge source of relief during the development of DonPachi...it's no exaggeration to say Cave wouldn't exist without her posts"
— Tsuneki Ikeda


King of Dragon Pass Review
★★★★★
★★★★★

King of Dragon Pass is that rare pleasure, a game that feels fresh and almost totally unique 25 years later. From a high level, it sounds like a strategy game crossed with an RPG: using a simple menu-based interface, you must lead your clan to prosperity over the course of decades, managing your people’s wealth, happiness, and relationships with your gods and other clans. Several times a year, you’re faced with a narrative event that requires you to make a decision as clan leader. Along the way, you’re helped by a group of clan nobles who offer advice and guidance.

But where most other games treat culture as something intrinsically narrative, in KoDP, culture is gameplay. Set in the rich fantasy world of Glorantha, every single one of the game’s systems is governed by the laws, customs, traditions, history and religion of your people, the Orlanthi. It’s a complex harmony of gameplay and worldbuilding where learning the game means learning about Orlanthi culture and fully inhabiting your role as a clan chieftain. In so doing it carves out its own genre, cultural roleplaying. It’s practically a crime that this game was such a commercial failure on release and has exerted such little influence on video games as a whole.


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