When Marnie Was There

[rynling]

In the process of watching When Marnie Was There, I depleted my entire store of tissues, and I generally keep a lot of tissues in my apartment. Seriously, I had to walk to CVS in the middle of the night to get more tissues because this movie made me cry. It was so beautiful.

The final game I own but haven't played on my PS3 is Ni No Kuni, so I took it out of its special edition box on the top shelf of my closet and booted it up in order to stay on the Ghibli feels train for just a bit longer. The game took ten minutes to initialize, and after playing it for thirty minutes I still haven't fought a single battle or even made it past the prologue.

I've decided to institute the "Eternal Sonata Rule of Next Gen Console JRPGs," which holds that if I play a game for an hour every day for two weeks and still don't know or care what the hell is going on then I can in good conscience give it up forever. I am not a patient person, and I only have so many fucks to give (and most of them just went to When Marnie Was There).

Comments

[renegadefolkhero]

Yeah. If the goal was to have an interactive Ghibli movie I think they did all right, but even at the best of times Ghibli is all over the place story-wise, so you're stuck with 50 hours of all-over-the-place instead of 2. Evidently they intended to make a game where adults could relive their childhood but I mostly just felt patronized by feelgood, which I doggedly ignored for 20 hours until I couldn't remember why I was playing anymore (original rationale: to convince myself I could still play a JRPG).

Criticizing this game makes me feel like I'm kicking someone's puppy (not even MY puppy, someone ELSE's).