MzRie

Sonic the Hedgehog was the first game I ever played. I played, and beat it, at the tender age of three. I'm sure gaming at that young age has drastically effected my development. I wonder what I would be like if my first game hadn't been Sonic? Legend of Mana was the first game I played that really drove home the artistic possibilities of visual media. Everything in the game from the music, to the general design, to the combat visuals floored me. It turned the whole game into a fantasy storybook of sorts. killer7. I don't think I can say enough about Suda51 in general, but killer7 especially influenced my thinking. Its a piece of modern art. You have to adapt your thinking to it, and at the same time, it tempts you with the possibility that maybe there is no real answer. The only thing you get in the end is a curiously shaped, incomplete puzzle. To make a whole picture, you need to substitute elements of your own consciousness and subconscious as pieces. Before reading any tracts on modernism and postmodernism, killer7 showed me the limitations of traditional ideas concerning art, narrative, and our relations to the world.