Increasingly elaborate paradoxes that require increasingly elaborate solutions. Time Travel is the wikia of science fictional plot devices: infinite information without contextual meaning. Time travel opens infinite possibilities time travel ties it all in a bow in the end so none of it happened. Time travel is fascinating time travel is fucking stupid. It is indisputable that time travel is complete bullshit, but it comes up again and again in science fiction because it is compelling bullshit. I don't think it's good or interesting - everything that happens in Blazblue is incidental, assuming it happens at all, and most things that happen in Blazblue don't! I always say in narrative design less is more, but sometimes, terrifyingly, more is more, and Blazblue is the most. I know that every screenshot of the Blazblue wiki proves my point about Blazblue, but this also gives us an opportunity to talk about time travel. Mercury is a time-displaced clone of a person who was in the past the love interest of the main character, thrown back in time from the present, at which the point at which he was the future Celica A. Are you okay? Like, but, are you really okay? You should feel like it's okay.Ĭelica A. This was someone's idea and someone wrote it and to that person I really want to say: Honey. I don't blame you if you didn't read that whole paragraph but there's a sentence towards the end summarizing: Mai feels isolated, the weight of her father's expectations make her feel like a puppet, and that is kind of a lot? The literal narrative is her living as a woman makes her feel like a person so find another way to read that I guess? Maybe the greatest value of unwieldy overwrought multimedia franchises is that things like this swell up in them. The specificity is what devastates me, there are a million works of fiction that are like, "whoa, haha what if I could turn into a girl wouldn't that be cool I mean weird," and whether that's sublimated desire bubbling or personal projection is whatever, but I feel like an extended narrative about resocialization is just a lot, compared to the usual story that stops at the magic pill or whatever. I try to be cautious about reading sublimated desires into fiction, it's easy to read too much into things, to project what you want to see, to feel like you know an author when you're only seeing this single slice, but with all that in mind, oh my god? This is so overwhelming? I love knowing more about it even if it's all the functioning of completely made up plot devices that have no relevance to the real world, and no meaning other than the way they interlock together.
#AD INFINITUM GAME WIKI FULL#
You can follow a hyperlink and read a full and detailed explanation for whatever fucking nonsense that the Blazblue wiki throws at you, and of course, obviously, it is just going to be more fucking nonsense, but somehow my brain is fully compelled by it. Another part of me spent several hours browsing the Blazblue wiki, and that part of me wants to slightly disagree, because I loved it? Part of me wants to correctly say that this makes Blazblue VERY stupid. I'm not exaggerating very much? Very seriously, and very literally, this is actually the storyline of Blazblue, and the characters coming up with ways to find a solution to the setting's dream logic kind of seems to mirror the creative process of writing Blazblue. What Blazblue is ultimately "about" are characters trapped in a recursive loop of time, creating fictional solutions to fictional problems as an ad infinitum mirror of the creators of the games making shit up to explain other made up shit and solve cliffhangers and dangling plot threads. It's truly ridiculous for how obsessively it makes sense out of itself as a game about anime characters fighting each other, it doesn't actually need to make any sense, or at least, nowhere near the amount of sense it tries to make. It is absolutely too easy to make fun of the Blazblue wiki, so easy I don't want to make fun of it? I ended up not being very successful at this but if you only focus on how ridiculously nonsensical the Blazblue wiki is out of context, it's easy to miss how ridiculous the context itself is, that it's more overwhelming and strange that Blazblue does make sense than that it doesn't make sense.
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