I took a peruse through Japanese twitter and saw about as many complaints as on English twitter. There seems to be this idea that Japanese audiences are like, too polite or something to voice angry opinions online. Whenever I see stuff in with that general sentiment, I think about how it's...
I mean, the whole themes being the magic/power isn't unique to Japanese storytelling either.
Dorothy didn't return to Oz because of some slippers.
...I'm finding this line of conversation very unconvincing as to why The Compilation has some really shit-tier writing.
I just played two Resident Evil games back to back, and that series is notorious about not giving too much of a crap about narrative and continuity and stuff. The FF7 franchise is at a similar spot where the sequels are just kind of made up as they go. The difference is that the FF brand has...
...not to interrupt the in depth kerfuffle about this, but uh... didn't remake already have a full CGI'ed cinematic in which the party sees a proposed future Midgar in a VR machine?
It's like contemplating the notion of canon in smash bros or something.
Though Nojima worked as a scenario writer in the Subspace Emissary in Brawl and iirc it was legitimately pretty enjoyable.
I started last night around 9 and went to bed after I spent the day today doing the rest :monster:
I feel like I didn't rush the game per se, but I definitely didn't backtrack for all collectibles/clearing every red room/etc. I explored when it seemed beneficial, but pretty much always had the...
I'm tentatively hopeful that Cid's character arc of becoming more of a better guy towards Shera will be handled more gracefully than its poorly-aged treatment in the original.
I do fear that they might lean a bit too heavily on crappy anime tropes that are still super prevalent. Whatever they...
Within a creative field, there always comes a time when a choice has to be made between working towards being the artist you strive to be, and being a well-adjusted human. Too many artists completely burn out due to captialism, as well as a lack of self-fulfillment in whatever environment they...
why would Sony pre-install a happy, nostalgia fueled game centered around collecting their old hardware, and then
do what they do??
its like my inner child is having candy flaunted in front of me, only for it to be yanked away when I reach for it :(