New years Eve 2025
When I speak about Pokemon, it’s not all I’m including in that word. It’s been steered toward, many times in psychic life, when voices and psychic nodes where abundant, and definitely somewhat harmonious. Yes I speak directly on the hacked ROMs that open them up, but I really do see it as more than it in itself – its at the center of, probably hundreds of thousands of games that fit the format, where genuine challenge or a steep learning curve, or developed skill of any significant kind is not needed, to do what the game wants you to do. So when I say that game’s title after you hear this message, know it’s free to be limitlessly applied to the realms of, and touching upon low-skill, well-polished titles, that know what they are, and stay grounded in that, and that format, specifically. To name a few off, I’ll cite this recent surge of “survivor” games, such as Vampire Survivor, which caught on like wildfire and has countless clones of every sort now, popping up, doing their own thing with what’s now established turf. Lurking outside this I guess you could put any turnbased RPG: Golden Sun and classic Final Fantasy. Its the type of game that’s unpretentious, simple and does its job. List about a hundred off in your own head, of this essential element within the game, and you’ll see its ubiquitous. Every game needs a format, just many many of them do it with ritual as the first priority. This can be grounding, and it can be stabilising, but its no street fighter, or racer, or first person shooter or souls-like. So when I invoke it, its not an accident or a slip from grace, but a retreat to more of a lake, of such meaning as what I’ve described. Simple task, simple development, mild challenge, routine, ritual, ritual, ritual. That’s pretty much all I have to say on it.
The Humble Rock Dove 