![]() ![]() Joe because they’re blue or don’t speak English. I don’t care about collecting 1,000 Unobtainium to build a JCB for bulldozing loads of trees inhabited by indigenous people who are deemed expendable by G.I. *Googles “how to do words good*.Īvatar’s inherent innocence, juxtaposed with the immense gravitas its stories bear, creates the perfect scenario for the kind of storytelling that, for once, can only be properly facilitated in interactive media. The whole premise is such a spectacular juxtaposition of the military-industrial complex with spacephilic techbros that I feel stupid just writing about it. The only thing worse than Pandora’s box is Unobtainium, the mysterious substance that loads of super army soldiers have devoted zillions of dollars to obtaining via intergalactic travel. ![]() I mean, I knew it was going to be the movie with the blue people. The fact Ubisoft was making it alone led me to believe that “Untitled Avatar game” could only lead to one thing: a game based on a film with a planet called Pandora and the line “now we’ve opened Pandora’s box,” which made me want to throw my popcorn at the screen when I was 14 years old - and believe me, I like popcorn too much to waste it. I like Korra too, mind, but ATLA will always be top of the pops in my book. The Last Airbender is one of my favourite shows of all time, to the extent that my entire right bicep is covered in a tattoo of Iroh sitting on the hill at Ba Sing Se - what an episode! - and I watched the entire series in full three times over the course of the pandemic. ![]() Like a lot of you, I chose to believe that there was a game based on Aang and the gang on the way when I heard that an Avatar game was currently in development. ![]()
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