Mako: can’t live with it, can’t live without it. The energy source that powers the world of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is rich with subtext, simultaneously being a metaphor for oil and also a general warning on the potential dangers oꦡf scientific progress. It powers Midgar’s technology, but it will also turn you into a weird little freak if a scientist forces you to spend years s♓leeping in the green magic goo.
So, while it can do wonderful things, like provide electricity to the 🍎people of Kalm, exposure to it can also be dangerous. As a result, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth has multiple moments where you need to grab a vacuum and suck up excess mako.
Before I started playing Rebirth, I listened to MinnMax’s podcast discussion of the game and, during that episode, YouTuber Jacob Geller that there were multiple moments in the game that had him yelling, “How could anyone think this is fun?!” Geller didn’t mention these mako-sucking sections specifically, but as I began to vacuum green clouds up for the first time, I expected to have a similar reaction. It’s like moving a crate to reach a ledge in The Last of Us, but with more precision required because you have to navigate the vacuum so that it's on top of the little mako clouds.
To my surprise, I actually ended up enjoying being a mako janitor and am now mildly stoked each time a new vacuum section shows up. I can’t fully explain it, but I love these bits. It may be because putting things in order is a fun thing to do in video games. I love organizing Leon’s attaché case in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Resident Evil 4 and its recent remake. I felt the compulsion to close the fridge door every time I walked by it in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Guardians of the Galaxy. I wasted many a day in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Stardew Valley doing nothing but pulling weeds and brꦍeak♊ing rocks.
Those are more obviously organizational examples, but video games, at their most basic level, tend to be about creating order from chaos. Tetris throws you a wild array of blocks and you arrange them into neat orderly lines. Pac-Man gives you a maze filled with pellets, and you eat until it's clean. Shooters do the same thing, just more violently, presenting you with a corridor full of enemies and asking you to use your shotgun to empty it out, making it safe again. Open-world games give you a world to tame by activating towers and clearing bandit camps. The trappings may be different, but games typically return to the same dynamic: asking you to pick up after the developers.
Some just make the cleaning process more literal. It’s the reason that it isn’t all that surprising that games like Lawn Mower Simulator and Power Wash Simulator really hit for some people. They’re offering more mundane versions of the same feeling you find in Gears of War or The Last of Us, but with more bells, whistles and customization than they would have in real life. Unlike in PowerWash Simulator though, cleaning up mako is fast and pretty easy. The boxy vacuum is a little cumbersome to move, but you get used to it quickly. Square Enix throws some minor variations at you, like attaching the vacuum to a cord so that you can't reach the mako until you figure out how to open a gate, but mostly it's pretty straightforward. Still, I love it. Do I like vacuuming my own house? No. Will I vacuum someone else's as long as you wrap it in fantasy trappings? This article is either a cry for help or an answer to that question.
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