Mother set the mark for postmodern games. It was obviously postmodern. Mother is a Yoko Ono teacup-cut-in-half. It’s Takako Minekawa's song “Kangaroo Pocket Calculator,” in which the only lyrics are: “47 is a magical number. 47 plus 2 equals 49. 47 times 2 equals 94. 49 and 94. 94 and 49. The relationship between 47 and 2: It's . . . magic.”
We hear this, and think: “Funny. Cute.”
MGS2 is another level of postmodernity. MGS2 is Yasuharu Konishi’s seven-minute remix of the one-minute Son of Godzilla march. For four minutes, we hear a Brazilian woman narrate a Godzilla movie in Portuguese, with ambient sounds in the background. For three minutes, we hear the Godzilla march, techno beats laid down in the background.
We hear this, and think: “What the hell?”
More on this facinating topic in link. I, for the record, think that we need more post modern gaming. More fourth wall breaking like Eternal Darkness, please.
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