I absolutely loved this! Love Animal Crossing & video games on the whole - in grad school I wrote an essay arguing that video games (I chose "Breath of the Wild" as a case study) offer the most perfect experience of Tolkienian enchantment because they are entirely immersive in a way that a film or book can't exactly be. I wish they would get more attention as art forms and cultural artifacts.
I absolutely loved this! Love Animal Crossing & video games on the whole - in grad school I wrote an essay arguing that video games (I chose "Breath of the Wild" as a case study) offer the most perfect experience of Tolkienian enchantment because they are entirely immersive in a way that a film or book can't exactly be. I wish they would get more attention as art forms and cultural artifacts.
Your essay sounds fantastic. I am sure games will in time come to be studied in a literaty/critical capacity.
Happy to oblige 😊