Since no one else has mentioned it: Shin Godzilla. While I’m happy to watch some goofy movie about giant monsters punching each other as well, this movie brings Godzilla to his roots as an allegory for disasters. The movie was apparently influenced by the 2011 earthquake/tsunami and Fukushima nuclear accident as well as the classic Hiroshima/Nagasaki reference that inspired the original Godzilla. To top it all off, it was directed by the creator of Evangelion.

Code Veronica is exactly the kind of game that needs to be remade. It has important lore for the whole series, but it suffers from being a bit too… of it’s era

Metroid Prime. I only played it for the first time this year when the remaster came out and the music blew me away.

I wonder if Japanese companies not liking modding is somehow a cultural thing. I remember littlekuriboh, the guy who does the Yu-Gi-Oh abridged, mentioning that the actual Japanese creators of the show wanted nothing to do with him and his content when he met them at a con. While non-japanese people see editing official content as form of investment and passion (even if it’s a joke), the japanese mindset is that you get what you get and messing with it is disrespectful.

I’ve watched a streamer play this a few times throughout its development and it looks amazing. If anyone is familiar with board games like Betrayal on the House on the Hill and Arkham Horror, this is sort of a video game version of those with a Junjo Ito flair

An upright bass, because they are such a vibe.