After learning what they are it makes the game great, completing big sidequest in game finding secret items gives you access to some wishes

ultimate weapons
piles of stat boosters
or 10 croquettes

Eventually the dragon granting you wishes can be recruited and turns out he just loves food

Game probably did deserve goty it is great, I just have beef with a lot of its fans as well as winning indie game because that's defining indie as a marketing gimmick

I also don't think any of the games nominated even deserved art direction awards but that's a different point

Small core dev team of new devs

Few devs who have connections to pull in millions in fundings

Contract small independent musicians for ost

Hundreds of contractors to actually make all the assets

Published by company worth billions

Pokemon is now an indie series

I feel insane every time an e33 fan praises the game for adding minigames and stuff to combat as if that isn't 30 years

doesn't matter

That's already what it sounds like when a new player first discovers the performance feature

That's how I sit at the computer

It's better not to because now I have spreadsheets on my computer and hate who I am

Scaring people who haven't played Radiant Dawn a picture of Ranulf and asking who he has a paired ending with

Shibuya "YouTube video essay where they describe the plot" cut

Me to the couple that showed up to watch JJK in matching Gojo and Geto shirts