I feel like I'm reasonably good at picking at a game on the gameplay level, as per what works and does not and why and surface videogame essayist stuff like ludonarrative dissonance (or the rare examples of ludonarrative harmony).
I may offer you my finest insight into video games such as "Lara Croft has some sort of father complex going on" and "Shadow of Chernobyl is unintentionally about life in the collapse of the soviet union" which even by my own admission feels shallow and trite. You watch someone like Jacob Geller or Noah Caldwell-Gervais and they have fascinating things to say even on games you wouldn't expect it, like NCG on Quake.
How do I become that knowledgeable? Interesting? Analytical? about video games?
Those guys are just interpreting that. Who says the devs intended one or the other? Especially when it comes to deeper meanings. FromSoft made Soulslikes in Berserk's image because its fucking cool to swing massive swords at unspeakable horrors. Not because theres heavy foreplay on the rot of society due to the actions and goals of our leaders.
what?
I think they're saying sometimes dresses are blue just because