"I started playing games, you know, with my brothers when I was six or seven," she says. "For me, I fell in love with games with the Pokemon games and I'll still buy every single one of those games when they come out." The author has been reading Kataku for more years than she can count but to finally cross that bridge was really special. 'We're chasing that feeling of being a child that is touching the surface of another world'
Gaming used to be for everybody, like Lego. But somewhere around the early noughties gaming became extremely gendered, with first person war shooters dominating mainstream gaming and “girl” games arrived. We talk The Sims, Harvest Moon, Pokemon, Stardew Valley, tv and movie franchise games, horse riding games, a little bit of Zelda, and a little bit of Skyrim. We also discuss Gabrielle Zevin’s Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, and finish with recommendations for new gamers. Recs include:
Wandersong
Chicory
A Short Hike
Cult of the Lamb
Boyfriend Dungeon
Going Under
Wychwood
What Remains of Edith Finch
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