I hope with some time new folks with a different approach, like yours, more personal altough responsible with evidences (but not presenting them as final truth signs) keep showing up, and changing the popular views about these games!!

And I hope ICO and TLG receive more love as well!!! <3

Ueda games are all about it for me, but we still think he's the only one with authority to say what his games are about, and we neglects our creativity as so. We call it "scientific investigation" hoping that if we find "proofs" in the game-object we'll finally be allowed to express our imagination.

The problem for me is that we all didn't learn yet that the art that comes to us is only half of the piece, and what we do when we interact with it is to invent the other half. And that invention grows forever as we contact others about it.

And I was part of that. When I wrote that fan article to share my interpretations of these 3 games, I wasn't able yet to notice how much biased I was for this aesthetics of "revealing the truth" that comes from history lessons and YT shallow criticism.

All that being said, I guess it's more of a ocidental culture problem of... you know, the same thing Marvel is using very well altough it's an older phononena, of fandoms trying to figure out "what >really< happened" in a historical approach. It's a problem of our education in general, I'd say. :(

So, from my perspective, I'll always agree with you on how people are probably too much insistent on looking at these games as a bigger intelectual construct, instead of just engage with each one for its particularities and proposals

but if someone look for "in time-space" connections... it's hard.

The same way it's difficult to assume the horns, clothes, etc, in ICO as continuity elements from SotC.

But again, in the case we decide to look at these stories as chronologically connected in a same world. It needs to be considered, I'd say, because its material aspects keep showing up.

Unless we assume TLG comes before SotC etc (which I'm not a big fan because of the tech in that world).

For that, you know, using the aesthetical aspects shared between these games, it's difficult to avoid assuming the dark powers of the other villains wouldn't come from Dormin as a source.

Speaking from the place of one of those folks who tried to interpret these games as part of a bigger single tale, I think it's a bit inevitable to take SotC as a more proeminent story. I mean, if you take it all as chronological, there is where we have the closer to a "origin" story, right?

Porque juntar sinceridade com suicídio é super o contrário. Sentir livremente é viver saudável.

O difícil é que na prática tu se torna alguém insuportável pros outros. Ou ao menos pros ainda apegados a esconder algumas coisas de si mesmos.

O bom é que você deixa de ser seu inimigo.

Tem umas duas semanas que comecei a experimentar isso, em variados níveis. E uma parada que tá parecendo mais clara é que pra se pôr assim em conflitos mais extremos, a gente precisa bancar ser kamikaze mesmo. "Sincericídio" eu ja acho que seja um jeito bem pejorativo de se nomear isso.

Adiciono agora algo, que também, sem qualquer intenção direta do autor, estará tendo agência na nossa construção conjunta de sentido.

Power bastard, pathetic master
I'm reliving Saturn eating
His flesh is everything of mine

Vindo de mim, do Deafheaven ou de uma IA, o objeto-texto fala por si;

Eu já havia dito antes: Criador e criatura são uma coisa só, que luta contra si.