Liv Writes Words Again

  In the midst of the final boss fight of Helltaker, I said and I believe I quote 'I wish burnt pancakes on the creator of this game' as I tried to deal with the boss fight for the umpteenth time. Maybe the feeling that the shift from planned puzzle solver to real time attempt at rhythm game was jarring to me. Maybe I hadn't really be grabbed by the scenario of this game as deeply as others might have. Perhaps I was dealing with the frustration of how snap quickly I'd had to make judgements when before it'd been something however mundane I'd been able to take at my own pace. Maybe it was just frustrating and boring to my own perspective? All of them are I think true of the matter.   Helltaker is at its core, a vehicle for the creator to show off their cute demon and angel women original characters. It is at its best when it is showing off said cute designs and playing around with its semi 'I'll kill you or kiss you vibe' and to a degree t...

  In this tranquil moment, While voices surround me in the quiet, I wonder to myself, Palms twitching, Gripping the edge of my knees What would a doughnut taste like, With jam on the outside instead? It is not always the grand thoughts, That come to visit in the lonely moment.

  It good.   I've left the first line intact from a little note left by my spouse. It's a mark of xer memory in this instance and a reason I smile when looking at this review. And memory is where we must go, going forward.   How do you live? With regret? With anxiety? With curiosity and abandon? Or holding onto everything and never letting a shred of things go? Do you craft then burden yourself with all of the pain of a thousand worlds and tomorrows? Or do you forget it all and allow yourself to hold onto naught, losing a version of yourself to yesterday?   In some way, the film The Boy and the Heron, otherwise known within Japan as How Do You Live? Is trying to fulfil some of an answer to this; and also seems content to answer it in its own capacity and move past it, not truly staying to leave an answer that will satisfy those hoping for a complex answer or at least one that is spelt out initially by its ending. What it instead portends seems to b...

        In so far as expectation can take us, what makes a work transcendental? It's hard to define but likely it's what captures the elements that informed our passion, our excitement and the desires we once knew as children. What guided us as we first stepped into a world we were only just starting to understand and how do they stick with us, subsumed beneath the overwhelm of the now?   Fantasia 2000 is a film that as with many pieces has flaws that stick within the craw and keep us anchored to the mundane. The lack of any warning of flashing lights in a film that has intense scenes of it would be one factor. Some of its introductions from recognizable faces are confusing or distracting or simply seem to pull away. Either the chemistry of people playing off one another, even recognizable Disney characters is dulled or it feels a little awkward in transition. And some of the pieces, including the return of the Sorcerer's Apprentice or the Donald Duck...