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Mar. 25th, 2012 10:09 pmSo I'm back! The road trip was awesome, the Library of Congress was awesome, all the fabulous ladies that I don't see nearly often enough and got to hang out with in DC on my way back were awesome (with special bonus points to ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
gramarye1971 for hosting me), and then I got on the bus home and collapsed in an exhausted heap for about twenty-four hours.
SO BASICALLY TODAY HAS NOT BEEN SUPER PRODUCTIVE, and I'm okay with that! I have spent most of the time I was awake doing a nostalgia re-play of King's Quest VII, which was my favorite computer game as a kid. There is a very easy explanation as to why it was my favorite:
Oh hey, the heroine is a lady!
OH WAIT NO. The heroines are two ladies, and one of them is a MIDDLE-AGED MOM looking for her daughter. That NEVER HAPPENS, and it especially never happens in video games in the nineties!
Heroine 1 is Princess Rosella of Daventry, who runs away to have ~adventures~ and finds herself accidentally turned into a troll and pursued by an evil fairy, whoops. She spends the rest of the game teaming up with a badass troll witch-nanny to save the troll king and also rescue her hilariously incompetent eventual love interest (whom she also rescued in a previous game, apparently, which I guess makes the fact that he spends every moment he has onscreen babbling on about her beauty and wit and courage and being otherwise brainwashed and useless pretty understandable.)
Meanwhile, Heroine 2 is Rosella's mother Valanice, who is looking for her daughter but is not apparently not averse to rescuing some ladies from tragic fates while she's at it. (Three over the course of their game, by my count. Plus two of their husbands and a sad dog. Valanice just really likes getting families back together, okay?)
I will be the first to admit that the game has its problems. I mean, it is SUPER NINETIES, and when Rosella moves around she does this terrible uncomfortable-looking fashion model walk that makes me want to bang my head against a wall, and there is a whole section about looking through the villainess' underwear drawer and making judgy comments about her cosmetics usage that is really, really unnecessary.
But it's still a video game about a mom and a daughter, and neither of them is an Action Girl or ever uses any weapon except their common sense and the occasional hammer and chisel, and that's not just okay, that's AWESOME.
(Predictably, fanboys hate this game. Rosella is too whiny, and Valanice cries too much, and the animation is too Disneyish, and it's the beginning of the end for Sierra. To these gentlemen, I say: MY CHILDHOOD TELLS YOU TO SUCK IT.)
PS. I also saw The Hunger Games and it was great.
PPS. I ALSO SAW THE FIRST TWO EPISODES OF KORRA AND MY HEART EXPLODED.
gramarye1971 for hosting me), and then I got on the bus home and collapsed in an exhausted heap for about twenty-four hours.SO BASICALLY TODAY HAS NOT BEEN SUPER PRODUCTIVE, and I'm okay with that! I have spent most of the time I was awake doing a nostalgia re-play of King's Quest VII, which was my favorite computer game as a kid. There is a very easy explanation as to why it was my favorite:
Oh hey, the heroine is a lady!
OH WAIT NO. The heroines are two ladies, and one of them is a MIDDLE-AGED MOM looking for her daughter. That NEVER HAPPENS, and it especially never happens in video games in the nineties!
Heroine 1 is Princess Rosella of Daventry, who runs away to have ~adventures~ and finds herself accidentally turned into a troll and pursued by an evil fairy, whoops. She spends the rest of the game teaming up with a badass troll witch-nanny to save the troll king and also rescue her hilariously incompetent eventual love interest (whom she also rescued in a previous game, apparently, which I guess makes the fact that he spends every moment he has onscreen babbling on about her beauty and wit and courage and being otherwise brainwashed and useless pretty understandable.)
Meanwhile, Heroine 2 is Rosella's mother Valanice, who is looking for her daughter but is not apparently not averse to rescuing some ladies from tragic fates while she's at it. (Three over the course of their game, by my count. Plus two of their husbands and a sad dog. Valanice just really likes getting families back together, okay?)
I will be the first to admit that the game has its problems. I mean, it is SUPER NINETIES, and when Rosella moves around she does this terrible uncomfortable-looking fashion model walk that makes me want to bang my head against a wall, and there is a whole section about looking through the villainess' underwear drawer and making judgy comments about her cosmetics usage that is really, really unnecessary.
But it's still a video game about a mom and a daughter, and neither of them is an Action Girl or ever uses any weapon except their common sense and the occasional hammer and chisel, and that's not just okay, that's AWESOME.
(Predictably, fanboys hate this game. Rosella is too whiny, and Valanice cries too much, and the animation is too Disneyish, and it's the beginning of the end for Sierra. To these gentlemen, I say: MY CHILDHOOD TELLS YOU TO SUCK IT.)
PS. I also saw The Hunger Games and it was great.
PPS. I ALSO SAW THE FIRST TWO EPISODES OF KORRA AND MY HEART EXPLODED.
