The Mainstream Indie and Metatext as Aesthetic

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Archagent Everlasting

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Published on January 31, 2025 3:46:05 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pugZ4HzXm1Y

Game:

Metroid II: Return of Samus (1991)

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I initially titled this "The Western Indie", but then the French got mad.

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Haze Anderson (Adventure), Quasimofo (The Stanley Parable, Eastward, Everhood), lucahjin (The Oregon Trail), Hundera (OFF), ManlyBadassHero (UNDERTALE), The Super Gaming Bros. (Metroid II: Return of Samus), Be Invoked (Drakengard), Welonz (Doki Doki Literature Club, Slay the Princess), ChristopherOdd (Bastion), ZackScottGames (Thomas Was Alone), Alex Haitz, buggyiscool (Braid), PlayFrame (Everhood, Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn), SighingSlider (Bad End Theater), BornLosersGaming (Oneshot), RetroBreak (Super Mario Bros.), Typhlosion4President (Super Mario Bros. 3), NintendoCapriSun (Metroid Prime), Keith Ballard (Transistor, Hades), Scott Manley (Rogue), Tonehack (Nethack), FightinCowboy (NieR: Automata), Chao11 (Everhood), Magemasher22 (Final Fantasy V), Six Characters in Search of an Author (Nathan Billis), XerBlade (Radical Dreamers)

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Ruins (UNDERTALE), Downstream (Braid), Phosphor (OneShot), Through Asphodel (HADES), Frogs are Friends (EVERHOOD), Maiden Song (BAD END THEATER), The Princess (SLAY THE PRINCESS)