Finished in 2014
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Persona 2 罪
Finished — 2014-11-09Started — 2011-05-16
Platform — PlayStation Portable
I played the P2 duology out of order, which was actually probably ideal. More late PSX-era graphics, more weird psychology, more Amano Maya, more Persona 2! These games are so emblematic to me of the strange, hip, geeky Japan of the 1990s.
初音ミク Project DIVA F 2nd
Finished — 2014-10-26Started — 2014-04-16
Platform — PlayStation Vita
I think Project Diva is the perfect artifact to represent the entire Vocaloid phenomenon. So many creative folks’ efforts went into creating it, but my favorite fact about this game is that the motion capture for when Miku plays guitar was done by one of my favorite bands, Gacharic Spin.
フェイト/ステイナイト［レアルタ・ヌア] extra edition
Finished — 2014-10-17Started — 2013-09-08
Platform — PlayStation 2
The joke was that nobody would want to watch a Japanese visual novel on Twitch. But a few friends ended up immersing ourselves in the day-to-day rhythms of this game together, and developed elaborate inside jokes and rituals for the narrative’s meditatively repetitive nature. I wish Nasu Kinoko was better at editing, though; I like drawn-out pacing but nearly every scene felt about 50% too long!
Nobody Passes — Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity
Author — Mattilda Bernstein SycamoreFinished — 2014-09-21
How to Live — A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at An Answer
Author — Sarah BakewellFinished — 2014-07-30
Who Wrote the New Testament? The Making of the Christian Myth
Author — Burton L. MackFinished — 2014-06-14
Delusions of Gender — How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference
Author — Cordelia FineFinished — 2014-06-09
The Beginning of Infinity — Explanations That Transform the World
Author — David DeutschFinished — 2014-04-29
The Righteous Mind — Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion
Author — Jonathan HaidtFinished — 2014-02-06