'Thou Possesses'? Oh, Come On.
Dec. 18th, 2009 12:08 pmThought of the day: wouldn't Romeo and Juliet have been so much better had the feud between the Montague and Capulet houses in fact been a massive Pokémon battle?
...I typed that out, and then I remembered that that was, in fact, an actual episode of Pokémon. Romeo and Juliet were Nidoran.
Oh, Pokémon. With canon like that, who needs crackfic?
I'm afraid this is going to be another entry about a game about five of you have played, because I cannot stop thinking about Shadow of the Colossus.
It didn't occur to me until some time after I'd finished the game, because at the time I was so caught up in the frustration of missing his hand and being forced to climb up the building he was wearing about twelve times, but now I feel like the worst person in the world for killing the final Colossus. Yes, he shoots exploding lasers at you from afar, which is rude, but when you're actually on him he doesn't attack you at all. You stab him, and all he does is examine his injuries, as would anyone.
And I took advantage of that and killed him.
I feel like a terrible person.
I - I am seriously considering signing up for Wander/Agro (OBVIOUSLY NOT IN A ROMANTIC/SEXUAL SENSE although one of the prompts in the table I'm considering is 'sex', not sure what I'll do about that) at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
1sentence. THIS IS A TERRIBLE IDEA FOR SO MANY REASONS. My strong point in writing is dialogue, and there is no room for dialogue in the tale of an almost-silent boy and his horse! There is so little material in the game that I'm not sure I'd be able to manage twenty sentences, let alone fifty! I cannot possibly match the beautiful, sparse feel of the game! Also, another prompt is 'chocolate' and I doubt that there is much chocolate in the Forbidden Lands. (Same with 'telephone', but I think I may have an idea for that one. NO NO NO I SHOULDN'T DO THIS.)
ONE THING THAT ANNOYS ME ABOUT THIS OTHERWISE WONDERFUL GAME: learn some grammar, Dormin. You can't just say 'thou' and then use any verb form that you like! If thou manage to accomplish what we askest - no, Dormin. No. If thou managest to accomplish what we ask. Admittedly, as Dormin isn't actually speaking English, this is probably the fault of the subtitler rather than the entity.
Here are my favourite colossus battle themes on YouTube:
A Violent Encounter (oh, my goodness, the voices from forty to fifty seconds in, amazing)
A Despair-Filled Farewell
The Opened Way
For full effect, those unfamiliar with Shadow of the Colossus: imagine that you are fighting a creature thousands of times larger than you whilst listening to these.
Also: have you ever wanted to see the opening and the battle with the third Colossus rendered in Lego? Of course you have.
...I typed that out, and then I remembered that that was, in fact, an actual episode of Pokémon. Romeo and Juliet were Nidoran.
Oh, Pokémon. With canon like that, who needs crackfic?
I'm afraid this is going to be another entry about a game about five of you have played, because I cannot stop thinking about Shadow of the Colossus.
It didn't occur to me until some time after I'd finished the game, because at the time I was so caught up in the frustration of missing his hand and being forced to climb up the building he was wearing about twelve times, but now I feel like the worst person in the world for killing the final Colossus. Yes, he shoots exploding lasers at you from afar, which is rude, but when you're actually on him he doesn't attack you at all. You stab him, and all he does is examine his injuries, as would anyone.
And I took advantage of that and killed him.
I feel like a terrible person.
I - I am seriously considering signing up for Wander/Agro (OBVIOUSLY NOT IN A ROMANTIC/SEXUAL SENSE although one of the prompts in the table I'm considering is 'sex', not sure what I'll do about that) at
1sentence. THIS IS A TERRIBLE IDEA FOR SO MANY REASONS. My strong point in writing is dialogue, and there is no room for dialogue in the tale of an almost-silent boy and his horse! There is so little material in the game that I'm not sure I'd be able to manage twenty sentences, let alone fifty! I cannot possibly match the beautiful, sparse feel of the game! Also, another prompt is 'chocolate' and I doubt that there is much chocolate in the Forbidden Lands. (Same with 'telephone', but I think I may have an idea for that one. NO NO NO I SHOULDN'T DO THIS.)ONE THING THAT ANNOYS ME ABOUT THIS OTHERWISE WONDERFUL GAME: learn some grammar, Dormin. You can't just say 'thou' and then use any verb form that you like! If thou manage to accomplish what we askest - no, Dormin. No. If thou managest to accomplish what we ask. Admittedly, as Dormin isn't actually speaking English, this is probably the fault of the subtitler rather than the entity.
Here are my favourite colossus battle themes on YouTube:
A Violent Encounter (oh, my goodness, the voices from forty to fifty seconds in, amazing)
A Despair-Filled Farewell
The Opened Way
For full effect, those unfamiliar with Shadow of the Colossus: imagine that you are fighting a creature thousands of times larger than you whilst listening to these.
Also: have you ever wanted to see the opening and the battle with the third Colossus rendered in Lego? Of course you have.
