this is interesting to me. do you feel like something named with a pun should be humorous, else the title is bad/misleading?
thinking about my own internalization, puns don’t always read as “humor” to me, i suppose. almost their own category.
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i think i consider puns functional when used in this way. like not everyone is going to see “blue prince” and think “blueprints”, so you’ve got this extra bit of information that may or may not be gleaned by the audience. it seems like humor needn’t be involved at all in such a scenario
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It’s not mapped exactly like that in my brain. This one just doesn’t read to me in the English poetry way I think it may be intended to. Usually games with pun names are doing it for the kind of laugh that dad joke humor gets, so I am trained to interpret it like a bad pun I’d hear in my work slack that doesn’t make me laugh.
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yeah flower, sun and rain is beautiful. the endgame is literally doing mental arithmetic, just guys with multiplications on their shirts. it knows what it’s doing and it doesn’t care.
“blue prince” hmmm. something blue… blue crab (pincer). blue balls. oh. it’s blueprints. ugh.
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these are the sorts of conversations that get me going. it is close to me personally because lots of my music has pun names, spoonerisms, anagrams, all kinds of wordplay of varying inanity… but there’s no intent at humor (potentially complicating this is the fact it doesn’t reject humor either, and it’s certainly a valid way to experience a lot of my music). i think i just consider wordplay for wordplay’s sake a beautiful, admirable thing, thus thematic with my associated attempts at whatever beauty currently means to me. playing with language in the way the music contained therein plays with musical language? or idk. maybe i just like puns
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i’m all in on puns but “blueprints” is far too literal for what the game is doing and for how evocative “blue prince” is. colour prince, red prince, blood, prophecy, sad murder prince, night prince, blue blood, kind of blue. oh it’s just a reference to your game’s gimmick, okay.
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i must admit i know absolutely nothing about blue prince except for what’s been uttered here and i think i saw the cover art on the xbox app for a second
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I think its cute, it would be cuter if the game was good
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actually it would be a great title if the game wasn’t blue and didn’t feature a prince (?)
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this is exactly what I find tacky about this pun
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yeah it’s tacky and sophistry. meaningless except to signal how clever you are if you get the reference. my least favourite type of wordplay
thinking about Powderfinger’s D.A.F track, guess which chord progression it uses
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Bloop Rinse, I get it!
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Maybe I haven’t played enough yet but I just want to verify—people are also aware that Blue Prince does mean both “blue prints” as well as literally referring to the protagonist himself as the “Blue Prince”, i.e. the child of revolutionaries intended to oppose the red-aligned hegemonic order? Which is why the protagonist’s father stopped bringing him around the estate—because he thought Herbert was suppressing his neice’s history as a covert revolutionary, perhaps in ignorance of the estate’s own use by revolutionary forces? Maybe there’s a reactionary turn further down the line, but so far it seems like people are equating the flaws of Herbert as a character with the position of the game as a whole. (Other than the completely justified complaints about structural pacing; I would like to have a “yes I get this already” button for some of these multiple room dependencies.)
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I think that the in game narrative that justifies the name was the work of the same creator who named the game with some weak wordplay. which is to say, reeks of back formation
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When you know the true meaning of Blue Prince, you will regret your words and deeds
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Blue … prince. i get the pun now -_-
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“Blue Prince” : 
“Diddy’s Kong Quest” : 
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Blue Prince continues to surprise me mechanically and also I think I’m hitting a wall with how boring this setting and these plot revelations are.
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