dream worlds
May. 8th, 2021 09:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kradeelavI tend to dream in video-game worlds, when my dreams are the most vivid.
Definitely remember one or two pre-release FE10 ones, one that was the funnest combination of Spyro, Mario Sunshine, and Toy Story 2 ....
but Majora's Mask is the one I dream "in" most often.
it's some of the most surreal, haunting dreams that I remember literally decades later. No plot, really, but the visuals are distinctly stone-tower inspired, with the very exacting sort of creeping dread of the falling moon and armegeddon mixed with the ruination of an old kingdom. (I've even drawn two very brief scenes from one that came more recently around 2020...
... and there's still a bunch more i want to get down from earlier before time starts erasing that exquisite sense of encroaching dread (and the dead).)
The thing that got me to write this post was that out of any kind of medium or story .... FF7 has come the closest to capturing that weird sort of timeless, unforgettable visceral sense of tainted setting, and mood out the wazoo. Almost *smelling* the tainted blood spilt along Hojo's labs. The stink of survival-fear as everyone ran from the Sector collapse and crashed. The absolute unrelenting surreal horror of Nibelium... i'm still not over that one.
I think if I had played FF7 earlier (instead of like, a year or so ago), it'd feature just as often as MM does, if not moreso. As beloved as the characters are (and I was an OG Sephiroth fangirl), it's the setting that's going to get me to play the game soon again.
Definitely remember one or two pre-release FE10 ones, one that was the funnest combination of Spyro, Mario Sunshine, and Toy Story 2 ....
but Majora's Mask is the one I dream "in" most often.
it's some of the most surreal, haunting dreams that I remember literally decades later. No plot, really, but the visuals are distinctly stone-tower inspired, with the very exacting sort of creeping dread of the falling moon and armegeddon mixed with the ruination of an old kingdom. (I've even drawn two very brief scenes from one that came more recently around 2020...
... and there's still a bunch more i want to get down from earlier before time starts erasing that exquisite sense of encroaching dread (and the dead).)
The thing that got me to write this post was that out of any kind of medium or story .... FF7 has come the closest to capturing that weird sort of timeless, unforgettable visceral sense of tainted setting, and mood out the wazoo. Almost *smelling* the tainted blood spilt along Hojo's labs. The stink of survival-fear as everyone ran from the Sector collapse and crashed. The absolute unrelenting surreal horror of Nibelium... i'm still not over that one.
I think if I had played FF7 earlier (instead of like, a year or so ago), it'd feature just as often as MM does, if not moreso. As beloved as the characters are (and I was an OG Sephiroth fangirl), it's the setting that's going to get me to play the game soon again.
