Maybe. The YouTubers I see doing it are essentially roleplaying. It's a lot of reading into shallow dialogue like Pokemon or Animal Crossing, and I think it's hitting some button in my mind where it feels particularly inauthentic. Like overblown reactions that feel too rehearsed or planned.

Which is funny, because I can enjoy video essays that go on for hours, and those are also artificial. Maybe it's the lack of pretense of it being a deliberate planned work? But also if I wanted to watch someone play a videogame, I'd rather watch my partner play or just play it myself and listen to their reactions.

I think I'm running into something with my neurodiversity, but I don't want to be hasty and blame a part of myself if it's another reason I'm not enjoying it.

I remember playing p3 when it first came out and she called me out in a conversation where I picked an answer I thought she'd liked instead of what I felt. I started thinking more about dating Sims and romance subplots after that. Yuko is cool.

I just want Pokemon to actually do more of its early premise of humans and animals working together in community. I would love a team-based mon game, but I really just want to see Pokemon answer and explore the philosophical questions present in the series.

I thought Super Mario RPG had an exceptional and faithful remake. They only added to the game, but otherwise left the story unaltered.

Seeing these other remakes fail to do anything meaningful to justify the full price tag, I just feel sad. They could have woven in The Answer and FeMC with the lore expansion from the Arena games, but they're not even trying.

With the way the previous versions of P3 had transphobia and homophobia, I don't really want to retread a game that doesn't want to comment on itself as a flawed game. Like yeah, it brought features popular in other persona games, but I don't want to spend money or time on a low effort cash grab.

That's a pretty deep dive

My favorite part will be when the movie stumbles out of the gate and calls Link Zelda by mistake like an out of touch parent

True, but I think it's a flaw (not a huge one) that none of the main heroic characters openly agree or expand on the themes. It's good, but I sense it's from the writers not wanting to rock the boat too hard, or executive meddling keeping the themes less explicit.

And he successfully re-entered politics after all of his abuse got out. I guess this shit is nothing new for the US, but it's still really disturbing.

Unsurprising though that the people who fight so hard against bodily autonomy would also prey on the populations that lack bodily autonomy.