"It's so about the sort of chosen one narrative thing who gets to save the world gets tosave the world and that's so a part of girl gaming," she says. "If you're an animal crossing head and if you're a pokemon head you are a chikari head yeah." The game is in a very long quiet conversation with an old net the super Nintendo game called earthband, he adds. It has these lovely elements of classic nintendo games but it's also completely its own according to him.
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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