Critical Writing
Major Works:
The Beauty of Broken Simulations in a Mid-Pandemic World
Final Fantasy 7 Remake’s Notions of Gender
Honest conversations about games (and beyond!) are necessary to improve the medium as a whole. This means not just consumer oriented reviews nor beat-by-beat reportage, but a genuine curiousity into the perspectives that form games and the cultural products they produce.
I aim to be interrogative yet playful in my writing, examining intricacies from strange angles. The ability to be critical to a work means it is capable of producing a meaning that deserves inspection. So while I may sometimes be harsh in the ways I pull apart the most minute of details, I believe fully in what Harper Jay posited: Criticism is a kindness