re/enchanted
@reenchanted
Geek. Musician. Technologist. Writer. Game Designer. Follower of Jesus. Friendly neighborhood fact-checker.
We have a saying for this in Midgar: “Attack while it’s tail’s up!” Oops, game over. Ugh…I’ll get it next time.
Sam Fisher joins the battle! (Uh, you can’t see him in his title card because… uh… he’s very… sneaky.)
I always assumed G’doh, but I’m also American and assumed that’s how French people talk (I’m probably wrong). It did not occur to me until this moment that GODOT might be related to GO-BOTS. (Anyone remember these? I think I once a helicopter that transformed into a robot.)
This was apparently 2025, but it’s still a story worth sharing. These Sauron wannabes are not even hiding their intentions.
I don’t understand why the Church just won’t submit to the obviously higher moral authority of a particular nation’s government!
For many, I don’t buy it. Because: 1. A lot of things are legal that they don’t want to be legal. Asylum seekers, refugees, TPS, etc. 2. This administration canceled as many of those as possible. Our refugee acceptance dropped by 99% in 2025, and now the vast majority are white South Africans. 2/
Show off your profile header Just north of Paradise, at the border between US and CA. Why upside down? Cause I believe in an upside-down Kingdom? It’s how the world looks? I like the surreal idea of floating above the clouds with head in the sand? I just thought it looked cool? Beats me. Yes/and.
I don’t know, Pauline seems to be head and shoulders over most guys when it comes to theology. Or their physical location.
God’s priorities, according to Eric Metaxas, when He sees hundreds of thousands of kids dying in Africa because we fed USAID into a wood chipper instead of feeding those we promised to:
But even so, I’ll defend the original any day. There probably isn’t another game that inspired me so much from that time period as Twinsen.
Perhaps it’s no wonder that the cult classic is finally getting a remake these days. Haven’t played much yet, but I hope it’s good! From what little I played of the demo, it seems like it simplified the controls a lot and sanded off the rough edges but seems to keep the whimsy.
And speaking of characterization, Twinsen had *sass*. Sorry, Sonic. Crash. Spyro. You guys were all great, but Twinsen was in a class of his own.
Let’s talk sound. LBA had a gorgeous OST by Philippe Vachey with CD-quality sound. And you knew it was CD quality because you could play it in most CD players via the game disc. And, rare for that time, it had voice acting, which really helped the quirky characters come through.
Add all this to a fantastical world with a planet with twin suns and an ice wall equator, populated by quetches (humans), rabbibunnies sentient rabbit people), grobos (elephant people), and more, all rendered with some of the simplest, most appealing, low-poly 3D models ever made.
It did that all with a unique sense of whimsey & humor, reminiscent of the best of the then-popular but dying adventure game genre. Need access to a certain book at the library? Well, a guy there has been complaining about the water quality, so maybe we can taint it with cough syrup to improve it!
LBA (1994) came at a unique and awkward time in the transition between games becoming 3D. It did a lot of the tricks that blew our minds when FF7 (1997) came around, but did so three years earlier. ✅ Polygonal characters on pre-rendered backgrounds ✅ Cool CGI cutscenes ✅ Blow up evil tech centers