Look how beautiful this is.
I like exploring spaces as much as anyone else. It's one of the most enjoyable things to do in a video game, but I find myself constrained by my perspective sometimes. If some games are about power fantasies, I long for a complete view of the world I inhabit. Not just a world and a cute approximation of said world in map-form, I want to turn it upside down, crease it out, and shake the thing to see it from every possible angle. Like the knowledge that Earth is floating in space and is considered not just on its own terms but as part of something much larger. Like there's something more just outside of our vision.
I like rolling the mouse wheel all the way back and taking in a world floating on nothingness, or falling through what I thought was sturdy flooring and watching a land disappear above me. I am in a place, there is something outside of here, I just don't understand it.
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes is stunning when torn from Samus' perspective. Just a series of connected passages flickering in and out of existence, like the world does not exist unless you are staring directly at it; when you turn your back everything will disappear. And just in the distance is a glorious horizon that you can't reach because you'll fall and won't have anything to hold onto.
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