it's ben

I had to sit on this for SO long, but I finally just got cleared to gush about getting to work on NecroDancer!! It's been such a blast working with Danny and the other musicians, the team's been super sweet too. They brought me on specifically because of "all the weird stuff I did on MEATPUNKS" (Danny's words).

Anyway, here's my first track!! With @violinfairy's amazing (as always) violin playing!

since the official star wars account isn't on posting these here, i gotta share them here myself! enjoy, star wars fans!

Screenshots from Sea of Stars where a character says:

Oh sure, go ahead and refuse the call so we can all pretend it might not happen. Keep it safe and predictable! Any other tropes you had in mind for yer journey? How about buying linear upgrades from every single town where blacksmiths are somehow increasingly more capable the further up north they live?

Hey remember when Chrono Trigger spends several hours of its plot being a DQ-like fantasy RPG but never goes wink-wink-nudge-nudge about it, instead assuming that if you're playing this kind of game you're in on the joke and are willing to engage with genre tropes in good faith? This sure isn't doing that!

no seriously why would you put this dialogue in

i paid money for your fucking game, i know it's a JRPG, getting cute about it does you no favors because it makes it seem like you're ashamed you made a JRPG

please come up with a better use of breaking the 4th wall than bringing attention to how generic your own game is

noticed a really fun bit in Undead Murder Farce: it replicates a split diopter shot effect several times in the latest episode! love it when anime brings some of those odd filmic touches. i never noticed it until now so i skimmed back into the previous handful of episodes and didn't seem to catch any older instances of this effect, but still. really cool touch! i wonder if it was intentionally deployed here just in this new arc to help ground this little town in the alps as more "filmic" perhaps? (and, additionally, this show continues to rock. really excellent direction and art across the board.)