video game things that made you want to inhabit a world
also, I was 12 when I played this and I genuinely thought every party member was a girl, so I gave them girl names. Sometimes you look back and ask “how did i not know”
The Lynchian dad in Zelda Link’s awakening who tells you « I’ll be lost in the hills later, so keep a look out for me » and who does end up needing to be rescued in the hills later
A long, long time ago a friend looked over my shoulder while I was playing Final Fantasy Tactics Advance. A Moogle was speaking in a scene, and, as you might expect punctuating every sentence with “kupo!”
My friend interpreted this as being like the equivalent of a latino guy saying “ese” and now sometimes I read Moogle dialogue in the accent of a guy named Hector on an episode of Law & Order
I did watch Top Gun and Final Countdown every day from ages 3-6 so the VR missions really intrigue me even if I will never have the living space for VR.