Exactly. These guys can put what you're trying to say into words perfectly.
Me: ARGGHMAHGAAHD The Witcher 2! Politics, ASOIAF! Awesommmeeeee.
When what I'm really trying to say is perfectly put in KoP's novella xD
And it's even better when they spot things you miss, like Chris' 'social realism' when he assessed Samurai Champloo.
Okay, enough ass kissing xD - but yeah, you know what I mean 
Well, the funny thing is that sometimes people can't exactly put into words, the reasons why they find a certain game, movie, anime, tv show or book great. If we were to look at games like Metal Gear Solid, from a broader perspective, we'd think the fans would be raving mad. It's stealth game about a guy named 'Solid Snake' trying to save the Free World from a nuclear holocaust caused by nuclear-walking-battle-tank. Add that along with an array of characters with unusual supernatural powers, and you'd think it sounds absolutely insane -- But mix that up with a highly complex plot, with an array of historical accurate events, along with a few fictional ones, mashed together in such a way that you'd be unable to distinguish fact from fiction. We learn to it accept it. Post-modern writers have referred to this as Hyper-realism.
Metal Gear certainly learns towards the post modernist way of narrative at its strongest, with Metal Gear Solid 2, with an overly complex plot, putting the very fabrics of reality into question as the game connects the where the ingenuity was overshadowed by people's disappointment with the change of protagonist.
I think the greatest thing a game, anime or any medium of storytelling can do is provide new fashionable and intuitive ways to tell a story -- In Silent Hill 2, the story is narrated through the monsters, the empty town, your surroundings the notes you find, it's drenched in symbolism, without resorting to distracting cutscenes it leaves things up to the imagination and there's enough to material to work from that you'd be able to offer your own interpretation of the game's plot.
In terms of anime, I think Evangelion did do a lot of stuff for its time and you can argue it didn't do it to a required level of satisfaction. I think that's what's so great about it and the reason why I always compare it to Metal Gear Solid 2 is that they are both mecha, and carry a sort of mixed reception with them, and even to this day people are still discussing its meaning.
Anyway, I think the point I wanted to make was that I always tend to overanalyze things in any narrative that speaks to me on a whole another level. Not in a practical way, but through subtleties like the themes, the subtext and visuals, how it's set up. I try my best to reflect that in my own reviews or analysis or whatever you'd like to call them. Sometimes I generally just want to focus on the characters and how they affect the overall message the developer wants to convey.
Going back to what I said about social-realism. Well, that's how I think you can generally characterize anime as opposed to Westernanimation. I've said it in a few threads before, but anime tends to draw more cordial caricatures of its character, in otherwise fantastical or futuristic settings. Look at an anime like Code Geass. Its setting can somewhat be described as 'the nearest future kind' in alternate history storyline, to provide poignancy points for the viewer, along with fantastical things like supernatural mind-bending powers and mechs. Heck, even an anime like Dragon Ball Z and its predecessor has things plenty of subtext, like references to British Imperiallism through characters like Frieza, and the Saiyan races seems to be partly based on the brutal tactics of Ancient Rome, that would conquer other nations and kill all its residents, so they may replace them with their own people, like Romania.
There's also a more consistent and careful handling on the usage of sound and audio, which is excellent. Heck there are many thingsand I might get into all of it on Tumblr. I'll post some of my Steam reviews in there too
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). So yes, its a wonderful read whenever somebody does something like that
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