That Horrible Pen

I’ve wanted to be less excessively comprehensive in my coverage of games, so I decided to try out a “diaries” format, where I would challenge myself to cover one topic per day I spent playing the game rather than attempting to cover every aspect I could possibly think of, checklist-style. My hope was that the end-result would be more personal, selective, and interesting by virtue of the restrictions. Note that this piece contains full spoilers for the game in the title, as well as for its predecessor ( Sands of Time ). It contains some NSFW imagery and discussion, most prominently in the first section just below, on “Day One,” but also at the very end of the entire essay, in an image and its caption. There will be a content warning for discussion of IRL animal/human death on a later section as well. Know also that I’m discussing the GameCube version of Warrior Within specifically, played from a disc on the original hardware. For the equivalent piece on Sands of Time , click here ....