I watched most of a video yesterday complaining about issues in the re-release of 999 and it was overall mostly good and I agree with the criticism, but there was a pretty constant thing the essayist and the streamers shown in the video responded and said that is fascinating to me
so the issue basically is that 999 was released on the DS and separated necessary information in the game between two screens. the top screen was where actual dialogue and spoken text usually showed up, but the bottom screen would have that same text but nestled within narration.
So script mode up top, prose mode down below.
now the re-release is being released on consoles with only one screen. How do you handle it?
well, they decided to have both screens able to be jumped between as you wish, and to force to the more information-dense narration screen every now and then.
but as the designers didn't seem to want to force that switch often, they also moved important information from the narration to the script.
the big downside of this is now that characters are saying these things
and thus, what would be tense scenes that would likely be silent on a movie is now peppered with the characters blurting out information that would be obvious to everyone just with a glance
this even happens when the main protagonist is completely alone
as a critique of the writing, I have no problem with this. it's more what the essayist and streamers say this makes them think of the characters: as crazy
I've recently taken the advantage of living mostly alone to talk to myself aloud more and y'all, it's not crazy to do so and maybe you should be having more of a rich internal mental space and enmeshment in it even if that means you sometimes say things aloud to no one but yourself?
yes, the scenario in the game probably means people won't be talking aloud, but it's not a sign of mental illness straight out
I honestly think this is sort of the spiritual emptiness of whiteness
I remember a cousin criticizing me talking to animals as "being like the devil"
it's as if whiteness drives people to reject their own multitudes and even internal monologue in favor of a view that whatever they say just be true or accepted simply because they say it
it ties into the basic view of treating mental health not by making people happier in their own minds but by suppressing external symptoms to be able to slot them in as workers
I don't know I don't want to dive too deep into this because it's definitely going to be a large part of Quoll and it's arguably the central thesis of it
but it's just I feel like people have a very terrible understanding of mental health and abuse and all of that due to the centuries of bougie psychology and psychiatry