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glitchfang · 1 month ago

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video games being respected and seen as a 100% valid storytelling device in deltarune makes me really happy. “lord of the hammer” got adapted into “dragon blazers” and no one is shrugging it off as the mindless video game cash in, they’re discussing whether or not its a good adaptation, and gerson himself sees it as a perfectly good way to engage with the story.

in fact there doesnt seem to be a societal hangup over video games being dumb or mindless slop for lazy people. noelle plays dragon blazers with her dad in the hospital. berdly is a gamer bro but that’s never shown to be a sign that he’s actually stupid, in fact noelle is just as big of a gamer as him. she just thinks hes annoying about it. hell, dragon blazers and blood crushers being a way for all the lightners to bond, berdly coming around to susie because of it, the suselle hangout in noelle’s house. most of tv time is you chilling with your friends playing video games, and ralsei (the “proper” one of the group) never once comments on it. and the fact that there’s a discussion about a book to video game story being a good adaptation shows that video games are seen as a valid art form.

toby fox loves video games so much that we’re getting a glimpse into a world that actually respects them enough to see them as art and devices to bond with people over rather than lazy slop machines. and i dunno, i’ve never seen anything like it personally. i wish we had that.

#the book to video game adaptation sticks out to me especially bc as a book geek and a gamer. lots of ppl love to act like theres an inherent #barrier between the two #books are for the real intellectuals while video games are for lazy slobs #me being a book geek was encouraged but me playing video games? parents HATED that for a while before accepting it #because they thought it made me look dumb. i was focusing on stupid slop instead of intelligent books #and even in college. i submitted a story abt video game characters coming to life and debating in a wir-like world #and several ppl during reviews had to emphasize ‘’well i read books so i just couldnt understand this story but i guess its fine’’#and im like. why do you have to do that. you can do both its fine #i remember a wc person i followed online was like ‘’wow i played a pokemon game and it turns out video games ARENT stupid slop??’’#like idk if it was just my area being more conservative and judgemental but ive felt that barrier my whole life #ive had ppl examine my interests and treat the gamer part like it was a flaw. ‘’you’d get straight As if you didnt game or whatever’’#i say all that just to kinda show my experience idk if i sound like a crazy person rn. but theres definitely some elitism in that community #so. ‘’a popular book series got adapted into an rpg and fans generally love it but just hated the changes’’ is INSANE to me #like. its treated as just as valid as a book to movie or book to comic adaptation #and yeah i know video game tie ins have always been a thing but dragon blazers doesnt sound like that #it sounds like a different take on the same idea that came much later #and treated as its own thing. yknow ppl arent exactly doing that with star wars video games #am i making sense #echoed voice #like. irl noelle would have to hide being into dragonblazers and itd be seen as a huge reveal that she liked it #whoa…. rhe SMART KID likes GAMES???#dr spoilers

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