Ben Lindbergh

Yes, you're right.

It's pre-narrative.

It's anticipating the narrative that is to come.

The storm cloud's looming.

Actually, it's nice to have an Annapurna banger.

being back because, you know, it has been a bit because there's been a ton of turnover there, right?

And turmoil.

And so it's nice to know that they still have a game like this in their quiver.

And I was also pretty impressed.

This is a small thing, but even though obviously they had a music budget here, it was not an unlimited one.

And there is a finite number of songs and it's pretty impressive how they figured out how to seamlessly loop the songs and

Because you're in a particular scene and one song will play continuously.

And you'd think that that would be jarring because you get to the end of the song and wait, does it just start over again?

And won't you hear when it just skips to the start of the track?

And somehow you don't.

They managed to make that seamless so that the song just keeps playing.

endlessly, and it sounds somehow natural.

So that's a small little technological feat that I was pretty impressed by.

And there's an artistry to this, whether the stop motion design of the characters in a non-stop motion world, different frame rates might potentially give you some sort of seizure, but I got used to it.

And I think there's a lot to love here.