Immortality - I Believe I'm a Part of You

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The game ends with a one shot of the one looking directly into the camera, effectively at the player and saying, i believe i'm a part of you. The idea eing that like, because you were watching this, now they continue to live on through your memory of watching this experience. Yes, thereis nothing not cynical in this. That is a very cynical portrayal. But i also think that's funny, and i wish the game had picked it this more, because it's just not true. You could make the biggest show in the world, and in less than a hundred years, nobody will remember it. I mean, there are entire movies from the seventies right now.

We forgot to mention the announcement of Pikmin 4 on last week's Besties, maybe because we've been so content with Tinykin, which blends Nintendo's real-time strategy game with chunks of 3D Mario and a heaping cup of Dreamcast magic. After explaining why this colorful indie is worth a download (especially if you have Game Pass) we return to Immortality, this time without fear of spoilers. Plante finally gets to make use of all that time spent on the Criterion Channel. We also chat about Delicatessan and Disney Dreamlight Valley, the latter of which will get the full Besties treatment next week. [Ed. note: A small correction for the episode. True Lies is back on a streaming service! You can currently watch the James Cameron action-comedy on Hulu.]

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