SHINAN'S PROFILE

I'm quite fond of the hub. The idea of hanging out and learning to know the characters there. This is why I loved Harvest Moon even if the original technically didn't really have much depth to it it was still lovely to just hang out in that town.

There's also something about really learning an area well. I remember in San Andreas the starting neighbourhood was such that eventually it felt like "my own" and the sprawling driving around in other locations never felt nearly as homey as that original place. (GTA4 also did this fairly well, with that original street with the train above it that always felt like home)

Of course it takes a lot of work to create a hub world that feels deep enough and sometimes it might be easier to just run through a town where you only see the most surface level elements before chasing your targets. And even the most well-designed hub will feel stale eventually when you are grinding side quests or something that don't progress the hub story and it feels like every time you talk to any character they're still worried about tomorrow's weather.

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I watched Godzilla, it was fine.

Which Godzilla film?

The one from 1954.

(like Frogge I also want to plug my letterboxd account, even if I rarely write reviews over there)

In the 90s people used Comic Sans earnestly.