There are games with objectively better photo modes, yes.
But also Webfishing has that initial lure of listening to an audiobook or podcast while playing, which inevitably sidetracks into me trying to get avant-garde & weird with my screenshots—setting up spiffy lil mushroom compositions & chasing storms around the map.
There’s also something to the lo-fi, pixelated aesthetics of the game feeling like they’re failing to constrain something really sweet, and amplifying that thing in the process. Like a spearmint secret burning the inside of your cheeks. Or the dun shadow of a screen door, eroded by the light of dawn.
