On a Godless Planet:Volume3B Afterword
Afterword[edit]
“Okay, great work, everyone!”
“But I didn’t doooo anythiiiing.”
“The world would have to be ending for you to do something, so I say that’s for the best.”
“Anyway, I’ve learned several lessons. Socialization sure is hard.”
“Then let’s go to the arcade! That’s one way to socialize!”
“Goofing off is all you ever think about…”
“Oh, but the arcade does sound fun. We Norse gods love having fun, so I vote for that.”
“I like the crane that can grab snacks and that one with the moving panels you knock stuff off of!”
“But what kind of games will we play?”
“We could play air hockey. We can do doubles, which really helps get you fired up.”
“Um, yes! I’ll join you as a fellow Sumeragi-kun fan!”
“I think I’ll team up with either Anne-chan or En-chan.”
“Can you even…see the hockey puck?”
“You just get used to your boobs blind spot!”
“That’s my Senpai! Everyone playing will have a straight down blind spot! How wonderful!”
“Eh? I’m playing? W-well…I do appreciate…being invited.”
“When we went to the Daiichi Department Store’s arcade before, they had Return of Ishtar and I was like ‘so this is it, huh?’, but wouldn’t it be weirdly recursive for us to play that?”
“Yes, that recently caught my attention too. How many games use me as the protagonist?”
“If we don’t limit it to games and accept simple motifs, it has to be near limitless. And speaking of games, the Super Famicom comes out this November, meaning what’s commonly known as the Big Three will all be on sale. That will broaden what games are available in several ways.”
“With the increased expressive power of game consoles, the game worlds can show off a lot more different cultures.”
“With the limited memory and small bit depth of the images, they could make the different lands look different, but designing the cultures and residents to look different was a challenge. So lowering that hurdle to creativity is a good thing. Some of the ‘flavor’ will be lost, but the ability to directly ‘feel’ the game world really makes this era seem like a new beginning.”
“Meanwhile, Japanese fantasy games get really chaotic. Especially with the gear being taken from all sorts of mythologies.”
“That can’t be easy for the knowledge gods. Could they write the games off as a business expense?”
“I honestly have no idea what any of you are talking about.”
“Well, anyway. The work background music this time was JUN SKY WALKER(S)’s Ashita ga Konakutemo. It’s a bit of a surprise, but when you listen carefully to the lyrics, it’s about accepting everything that has happened while eliminating your anxieties about the future. It’s a reassuring song.”
“This time, we will ask ‘what best represented the dream?’ Up next will be the terraforming and the end of summer break. Please continue to follow along.”
2022. A morning of returning cold weather.
-Kawakami Minoru
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