Coping with Death through Elden Ring

I lost my grandma last summer. Even though my family should have been prepared for her departure, losing such a key figure in my life had a devastating effect on my thoughts. Two years of pandemic and the awareness of a brain of a 34-year-old man created a very bad mix. Tormented by the most common and human feelings about Death, I found comfort in an unexpected ally: a game that repeatedly puts the player in front of the Grim Reaper, Elden Ring.

Between the notes: A chat with The Last Guardian's Composer Takeshi Furukawa

Six years ago, I started my short but intense career as a freelance video game journalist taking courage and contacting Takeshi Furukawa for an interview. Takeshi is none other than the composer of one of the most intense and heartful soundtracks you can find in the video game industry: the score for The Last Guardian. The third game of Fumito Ueda and his team, genDESIGN, is something that never ceases to amaze me and for its fifth anniversary, I had the pleasure to have another chat with Takeshi, this time digging together behind the scene of the most iconic moments of The Last Guardian.

The following interview is a full transcription of a podcast we recorded on December 2021, spending an hour chilling together and talking about this incredible game that somehow kept us connected since its release. I have been guilty of failing to finish editing the video version all this time. Partly because my video editing skills are quite limited and a bit because a series of extraordinary events brought me here keeping me away from the keyboard for quite a while.