The panel decides on a strict definition of “isekai,” finds hope for the future of video games, and writes a woke, political Big Bang Theory script. Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Tim Rogers, and Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.
I appreciate the attempt at Great Lakes geography, and while it’s true that WI, IL, and IN are linked by the Chicago metropolitan area, there’s no real Tri-State commonality. Chicago is too myopic, Wisconsin resents Illinois (“F.I.B.s”), and Indiana is just not a team player
I’m not sure if it’s just me, but the audio widget won’t display here or on the main site for me (have tried Firefox, Chrome, and Edge), and the episode isn’t showing up on Apple or Spotify either
(literally had to drop what I was doing at work to post this)
“isekai where the real game exists in the real world and they get get sucked into the game” is final fantasy tactics advance! If you remember, the whole thing starts because the characters wish that the world were like their favorite videogame series, Final fantasy
Mistake on my part; I actually finished and uploaded this episode a few days ago, but scheduled the publishing wrong. Should be in all the normal places shortly. thanks for the heads up!!
Generally I believe people consider it an isekai - it is just the modern stuff has especially leaned into it being a hard reincarnation with no way back.
The snobs myself included love to say Inuyasha, Fushigi Yuugi, and of course Rayearth like y’all said.
I always think of it in like Alice in Wonderland rules- it just has become much more formulaic since they started making ten million of these things.
it’s not exactly one of the greats, but i still love that someone took the isekai formula and went full-on bananas and made “Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon,” which is exactly what it sounds like
Adding to what seems to be a whole lot of popcorn prep recommendations. We just do ours in a regular pot on the stove with a tiny bit of oil. It’s easy.
Also on the Dino Crisis 2 topic, check out the recently released Rebirth mods to get it running good on modern computors. For the reasons Brandon mentioned, prerendered backgrounds don’t look nearly as good on modern higher resolution screens, but I sure do like 2 as a game more than 1. Rebirth also update the first game and it looks fantastic.
right, but alice (and fushigi yuugi and rayearth characters) couldn’t go back and forth to the human world like kagome could. that’s the big difference - she could just go in and out through that well (mostly) at will (much of the time).
