2/4/2024 0 Comments Tumblr gif scenery star wars![]() It's an art object in itself, really, and I've always loved seeing the finished document after an entire game's worth of record-keeping, filled with notes, scribblings, doodles, and secrets like a diary. Each map is a web of soft, thin lines, annotated with thoughts and symbols, accompanied by the small shreds of story that we're trying to piece together. The added bonus is that my partner, who's the one actually drawing the maps, has done a really nice job. There's a lot of backtracking in a metroidvania like Hollow Knight, and sometimes it's just really nice to be able to not only place a generic "go here" pin, which the game offers you, but to make a physical note that you would guess this area needs a dash/swim/shoot ability. So we've been map-making off-screen, creating to-scale replicas of Hollow Knight's corridors, towers, and all of its little metroidvania bits (you know, when you walk past a very obvious You Need An Ability To Get Through Here area) for our own use. That's not a flaw - it's a game about mysteries, exploration, and discovery, and it doesn't want to reveal all of its secrets. The in-game map is good, especially with the added complication of having to first find the map-maker in each new area, then make the map, but it doesn't tell you everything you need to know. Hollow Knight, at least for me and my partner (we're playing it simultaneously - him on the TV, me on the PC), has been an excellent note-taking game. I often play games with a notebook, but that's only because I'm often reviewing them, and I need to note down things like "this is very boring" or "every time X happens, the Switch fan starts making a very loud complaining noise", so I can put them in my review.īut rarely do I get to use a notebook for frantic scribblings, trying to piece together mysteries, work out narratives, and make maps - and even though that sounds tedious and potentially stressful, it feels massively nostalgic, harkening back to an age where games told you NOTHING, manuals sometimes told you some things, and ASCII-illustrated game guides were printed off from the internet in huge sheafs of your parents' expensive printer paper. Please don't look too closely, it is full of mistakes This is my notebook page for Return of the Obra Dinn. It's totally reasonable to expect a game to give you all the information you need within itself, with the exception of games like Harvest Moon, Animal Crossing, and Stardew Valley, for which a notebook is where you write all the things you can't possibly remember, like gifts, catalogue items, shop times, and where and when to catch fish. There are very few games these days that require a notebook to understand, and that's not necessarily a bad thing. but instead, as you can tell from the title, I want to talk about how Hollow Knight contributes to a legacy that has existed since the very first days of gaming: The need to take notes. And there's so much to talk about from that entire day's worth of playing! The melancholy, the audio work, the music, the cuteness. In fact, I've apparently played it for 28.5 hours, which is a lot of bug-time. Rise Of Skywalker: KLAUD Fancam, the mistake has been rectified, at least. The exchange gained over 140,000 likes and reblogs within a week, with the meme format going viral on Tumblr. On March 3rd, 2022, Tumblr user itsmissdorothy reposted tweet, with user the greatgbrumbolia responding with a Live Tucker Reaction meme featuring Klaud. In the following days, Klaud maintained moderate popularity on Twitter as a reaction image, with fancams dedicated to the character also being created. In the same thread, and other users posted similar memes, editing "Live Klaus Reaction" into various scenes featuring LGBTQ+ characters (examples shown below, center and right). The post gained over 4,900 retweets and 25,600 likes in one day. On February 21st, 2022, Twitter user posted a still image from Neon Genesis Evangelion, with a Live Tucker Reaction Klaud meme edited in (shown below, left). In the same thread, wrote that "All acts of queer love should immediately be followed by a slug monster reaction," with the tweet gaining over 860 reactions and 10,100 likes in four days. The tweet was accompanied by a cropped image of Klaud from the leaked poster and gained over 7,500 retweets and 69,200 likes in four days (tweet and image shown below, left and right). ![]() The character did not achieve notable presence in memes until February 20th, 2022, when Twitter user falsely wrote that Klaud appears in the film right after the first gay kiss, staring blankly for four seconds. On January 30th, 2020, Redditor Oobedoob_S_Benubi created a subreddit for Klaud memes that gained nearly 1,000 subscribers in two years. ![]()
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