GameNotes: Blue Prince - Day 1

There is a game called Blue Prince. It is for lunatics. This is how I join them. I have always been an habitual and prolific note-taker and belong to an entirely normal number of notebook-related subreddits, and I began to apply that skillset to gaming after reading a Polygon article some years ago1; I’ve got a notebook full of my experiences with Planescape: Torment (the best game with the worst name!), the Resident Evil remakes2, Tears of The Kingdom, Chants of Senaar, and similar, but when I began to hear about this secret-riddled architecture roguelike in my feeds I new it was time to up my game, so I got a brand-new journal (per the game’s recommendation, actually) and set about A Project, which I will share with you here, one post per in-game day. All note-taking and taxonomical systems are works in constant progress and refinement, so this initial set is gonna be a bit data-dumpy and then I’ll gradually figure out what kind of information I should actually be keeping track of…