My last one is a little longer than the two minutes, but I hope it's okay! It's one I think is funny and you'll appreciate Jo :)(long time lurker on your YouTube channel!)

It has the original director back! Its trailer art calls back to the original game's prototype!

CLOVER STUDIO IS REVIVED.

WE ARE SO BACK BABY.

The decibels I hit when I saw it was Okami were not human--
HOLY CRAP WHAT A DAY TO BE AN OKAMI FAN.

Other things I'm into:

📚Books (mostly assorted fantasy and supernatural fiction)
Anime
Nintendo Games
🐈‍⬛Cats (ask me about my menaces!)
Baking
Cooking
Gardening
🐕Dogs
🐟🦐 Fishkeeping (especially shrimp!)
📚History

I was really expecting when they opened the book with the bullying incident, it was going to be a bad pattern of bashing that particular character. It was refreshing that beyond that incident, there was such a positive message around her.

Yeah, it was very frustrating that so much of the book was spent with the characters denying the supernatural things happening. I really wanted a little more world building from the story too, what little we got did interest me a lot.

It was nice the bullies got almost immediate comeuppance though

The inclusivity of the book though and blatant denouncement of hateful rhetoric was incredibly nice and refreshing to read, however. Although I am disappointed the story wasn't quite what I hoped for, I'd give it a 3 stars out of 5. It was okay, but not for me.

The characters are very well written despite this criticism, but I wish they'd had more part in the action of the story. Until the last 50-ish pages of the book, they're kind of uninvolved.

I admit in high school I would have eaten up the school drama and setting, but I was left wanting here. (2/3)

And their candy-cane counterpart! (Slightly less nice photo)

I will add onto this tho that it has been like, at least a decade since I last played origins so I definitely don't remember everything 😅 I had a harder time getting into it though, especially compared to other entries and other horror games

Yeaaaaah, like both had some neat things but like, Origins and Homecoming (when they came out) were definitely the weakest SH games of their time 😂😭 between PH ordered on Temu in origins and like, the absolute crap 1 use melee weapons I had some Gripes(tm) with Origins 🤣

Yeah, I definitely agree with the overt movie aesthetics they were going for 👍I don't mind reusing certain enemies, but for a long while they absolutely threw PH into just about anything they could in some format or another. Origins was kinda guilty of this with both PH and otherworld too

I think he appears in game twice regardless of ending, and then a third time in that very specific ending...but otherwise yeah. He kinda has no reason to be there 😂 mostly fanservice appearances since he's the most popular monster of the franchise if I had to guess