I have many. Both games are phenomenal and I'm sure that I'd have that many more if I were to play them again. In particular, Heaven Will Be Mine's use of the mecha genre to explore the relationships between body and self, self and society, body and other, self and self, etc. is some of the best I've ever seen. I often feel like mecha series come up to that acknowledgement but disappointingly shirk away from it or leave it as unexplored subtext. HWBM not only goes there but draws the whole map of how anyone else who wants to go there in the future should go about it.

As someone also unsure about the future both personally and globally, all we can really do is try to set ourselves up as best we can and take care of ourselves and the people around us. We can't control what happens in the future but we can try to set our future selves up as best we can. Getting degrees and credentials is one way of going about it. It's hard but I hope your future self will appreciate the work you're doing now.

I hadn’t thought about this before but the medium does have a big impact in how I approach a project. The two biggest differences, in my experience, have come down to differences in how much control I have as a creator in how the audience will interact with the piece.
On one hand, blog posts require much less investment on my part but that comes at the cost of having much less control over the audience experience. I would liken it to setting up an art exhibit. You set it up, put it out there but have little control over what people do while they’re there. One of the first, and hardest, lessons I learned while in my PhD program was how to write with the assumption that someone is going to read the first and last sentence of every paragraph but nothing else. Everything in between is something extra for the engaged reader but the main ideas are the bread holding the sandwich together. I try to apply that to my blog posts as well.
In contrast, a video is more like a guided tour. You have near total control of how your audience is going to move through the exhibit which has its own costs and benefits. You can make sure your audience hears every part of your script but that also means you have to work to hold their attention. Unless you’re covering a topic they’re already interested in or you’re popular enough that your audience is mostly watching for you, those first 3 minutes can be make or break. For my own sanity, I don’t look at the metrics but I’ve heard that if someone is going to bounce it’ll probably happen in those first three minutes. After that, most people will stick around until the end. I write and edit with that in mind and it is stressful.
It also means you have to fill all that space. I have lost an embarrassing amount of time looking at a vacant 20 seconds of timeline and having no idea what to put there. I’ve gotten better at it though and try to write my scripts while thinking about the visuals. It does mean that some ideas get left on the cutting room floor because I’m not sure what visual to accompany them with but that’s what blogs are for.
Like all people who grew up watching their parent’s VHS tapes of The Muppet Show, I was cursed with a style of humor that doesn’t translate easily into text. With a video, it’s easy to get your tone across via pacing, visuals, sound effects etc. It’s much harder when it comes to writing. I spend a lot of time in editing thinking about the tone I’m trying to convey in my writing and how to set it via word choice, phrasing and sentence structure. It’s something that I do think I’ve gotten much better at over the course of writing those blog entries but I have a long way to go.
I asked my very handsome wife/editor about this and she pointed out that she even edits my work differently depending on the medium. If she knows that something is going to exist only in text, she puts most of her effort toward syntax and punctuation. If it’s a video, she lets those things slide and focuses on bigger picture ideas because she knows I’ll be able to get my intended tone across with voice and visuals.

-Ikou Nikki (Journal with Witch): From the same author as White Notepad and has a currently airing anime that's the best thing I'm watching. It's more central in side characters but there's a lot in there about gender, sexuality and neurodivergence. It's made me cry a few times!

-Bloom into You: I don't think I've ever directly recommended it in a video but it's good! Those Regarding Saeki Sayaka light novels are also good as hell. The third one is just about a perfect coda for that character.

-Watashitachi wa Moto Joshi desu (We are Former Girls): Another magical gender sickness story that centers on a character that is effectively an AFAB trans woman navigating what being a woman means to her. It's interesting albeit occasionally crass and comes with some CWs. Saku Jirou has another canceled series that covers some similar ground that I also enjoyed but it's even more graphic to the point that I wouldn't recommend it.

-Even Though We're Adults: A more recent Takako Shimura that reflects a lot of growth she's had as a writer over her career. I don't think she could have written these characters this well around when she was writing Wanding Son.

-Fantasy Bishoujo Juniku Ojisan to: Pretty fun isekai that does a lot of exploring gender identity albeit via a very winding road.

That's off the dome. I'll probably include this in a video at some point and try to think of some others by then.