Whales. Whales everywhere.
Veteran game designer James Montagna is directing this new project and apparently has a new outlook on game design after teaming up with Nintendo
The new Nintendo-focused emulator for the iPhone is now available with support for several classic systems.
Sued for what? It's just an emulator no ROMs are with it. ROMs are easy to get anyway, but with iPhone you can't just copy and paste like Android unless it's jail broken I think. Anyway Nintendo should be more concerned with their ROMs up to torrent for years for all of their concoles, but then again they can't do nothing about it, they never will and I love it. 🤣
Won't belong before Nintendo bangs on Apple's door to have the emu removed. Like I say you take down one six more take it's place. Problem is people are putting emu's on such stupid platforms. The good emus are the ones not on stupid platforms like a red target. The good emu's are word of mouth and keep a low profile.
Cord Smith, the former director of marketing for Compulsion Games' well-known title We Happy Few, has gone through quite a change since leaving the studio. This is represented by his new indie platformer Always In Mind, which takes players into a bizarre dream world full of fantasies inside the head of a little boy named Teddy. Sector got the chance to ask the industry veteran a few questions about his inspirations for the game.
Moby Dick.
The man likes whales, get off his back.
I wanted to reference an episode of South Park, but I guess its not PC, so I'll just leave it alone.
Its a Japanese thing, you wouldnt understand.
That's one of the first things that I thought about after the Death Stranding reveal. Whales will strand (beach) themselves for several reasons: sickness, child birth gone wrong, weather, sonar miscues, or following others (running to and from danger). There's no real link between whales and Japanese religions (though fish have prominent placement in many religious celebrations). There IS a cultural link that's kind of interesting in that, post WWII, whale meat was a main source of meat for many. Whaling was encouraged at that time in order to feed a country that was reeling from post-war food insufficiency. Part of the "reason" why the Japanese remain stubborn about continued whaling is this crazy sense of it being part of their ancient culture. (though, to note, that was more passive coastal whaling and not the far reaching industrial whaling we see today).
So, why whales? Maybe it's linked to the traditional myths surrounding whales. Even in Moby Dick, Ahab had a large amount of respect for the fight, the hunt, and what was lost while chasing the whale. More esoteric, whales are thought to be descendants of prehistoric land-dwelling animals. Maybe there's some commentary about the path of humans, being also mammals, and some link to whales. Overall, whales are majestic, somewhat mysterious, social and yet often shy. They are the largest species of animal, yet they are rarely seen. They live in a place that we have only begun to explore. (less than 5% of the ocean is explored, that's less than what we know about our galaxy!)
These are just some ideas. Though, knowing Kojima, he will take this to a level that we can only imagine. Or, it could just be that he thinks whales are cool.