Past Presence Dragon Age is Forever By Emily Price • December 4th, 2024 If one of the biggest criticisms of Inquisition is that it overstays its welcome, then one of its best qualities is that it lets you live inside the dream for as long as you want.
Past Presence Dream Vacation By Emily Price • October 31st, 2024 The suburbs are conformity, and they’re also, for people around a certain age, parenthood.
Funeral Rites INTERMEDIARY MUND is Equal Parts Absurd Dream and Fantasy Nightmare By Emily Price • August 23rd, 2024 Unlike his previous work, cartoonist Ben Marra doesn’t see INTERMEDIARY MUND as a form of pulp, or only as adjacent to it.
Past Presence Most Media Memory-Holed the Pandemic. Not 1000XRESIST By Emily Price • August 2nd, 2024 Playing 1000xRESIST means stepping into the shoes of an observer to millions of people finding out in real time they’ve been exposed to a disease there’s no way to stop.
Past Presence Killing the Dragon By Emily Price • July 3rd, 2024 Both Dungeon Meshi and the Katamari franchise ask you to zoom in and look closely, keep your eyes peeled for small details, and never forget them even when they’re a speck on the surface of a massive star.
Past Presence Octopia is a Sweet Farming Sim That Rewrites Eastward’s History By Emily Price • March 29th, 2024 Simple stories don’t have to overcomplicate themselves to be good.
Past Presence What Time Loops Mean to Me By Emily Price • February 29th, 2024 Time loop games give us the opportunity to grow alongside the main character.
Past Presence Romanticize Your Life! By Emily Price • January 31st, 2024 If these things are the glue that makes real “mundane” life less boring, they are hollow pleasures.
Past Presence Object Lessons #3: Megadungeon By Emily Price • December 27th, 2023 What is a dungeon? This is the kind of question you think about when you draw your fiftieth square grid room that contains yet another statue and another random battle.
Past Presence Jenny from Thebes Review By Emily Price • December 5th, 2023 Jenny from Thebes is trying harder than maybe any previous album to create a specific place, but it still feels unmoored, somewhere between Greece and Austin.