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Rob19ny
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Hikari is better, but this version of it (no matter the language) is the worse. Original version is beautiful (in regards to its use in KH, the BBS Jump Festa 2010 trailer is PEAK & the best use of it ever) and Ray of Hope MIX is a breath of fresh air that challenges the original.
Yare yare daze. Here we go again. We already know which side of the pond you're on. It was no secret with your obsession over Xenoblade 3 updates for a year and that it would cause you to spread misinformation when talking about Digimon Survive (which I had to correct you with the facts) some months ago. It'd be great if you just stick to reporting facts without letting your (let me put it in bold so no one misses the key words & misinterprets my post) personal feelings interfere with the reporting. On September 7, 2020, Tetsuya Nomura stated "Square Enix did consider ports for Switch, but found it was technologically difficult". There you go. That's the reason its not coming to Switch. 1 year later in October 2021, Ichiro Hazama stated "the decision to make cloud versions of Kingdom Hearts was due to the Switch's storage capacity". There you go. A Switch port wasn't happening due to technological issues, but Square Enix found a way to still release it on Switch. Kingdom Hearts is on Switch. Its done. REMOVED YOUR 'COPE' COMMENT, AS IT'S UNNECESSARILY HOSTILE FOR A THROWAWAY COMMENT
Here we go again. KH fans ≠ Utada fans. A tale as old as.... There is no honor. This has NOTHING to do with the Steam release. Utada released the Science Fiction greatest hits album on April 10th (a 25th anniversary career celebration). On April 10th, it was released on YouTube. In it is a re-recorded version of Hikari (Simple and Clean is the alternate version for English fans; Note that the lyrics are not a translation). When a new version of Hikari is made, typically a new version of Simple and Clean is made immediately after since the song has been tied to KH since 2002. KH coming to Steam near Utada's album release is a coincidence. It is just the 1st time this version of Simple and Clean is being released publicly. Nothing more.
You only have yourself to blame. The 1st game was perfectly advertised that it would be a collab between Final Fantasy and Disney, but the worlds are from Disney. The trailers literally only showed Disney worlds. The FF characters like Cloud, Aerith, Yuffie, were given different backstories (with references to their original games) and it was outright stated and shown that they were BORN in Hollow Bastion, an original KH world tied to the main story. How can you expect Midgar when the characters that were born there in their original games were alternate characters in KH? You weren't paying attention and you ended up taking yourself out of the series due to a lack of comprehension and bad eye sight. If you want to play in a Midgar world, play FF7. It was already in video game form prior to KH's existence and on the same platform (backward compatible on the PS2). |
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yeehaw
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I vehemently disagree on Mashima being a great character designer. The main guy looks like the protag of edens zero with red hair instead of black, the blond girl looks like every blond main girl he's ever drawn because he has a type, and all his characters looks like they could just be fairy tail characters
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Themaster20000
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My main takeaway from the new Silent Hill 2 trailer is just how unscary it looks. The fog isnt heavy and dark areas are way too bright, which really screws with the atmosphere. The toning down of Maria's sex appeal, completely misses the point and purpose of her character. It just looks like Konami saw the success of the RE2R, and wanted to replicate that. It just comes off as your standard action-horror shooter.
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ANN_Lynzee
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TWIG is not a news column; it is an editorial column. While our news team reports gaming news, Jean-Karlo discusses that news with his own personal insights. If you do not enjoy his insights and opinions, then this column might not be for you. You've been specifically warned in the past about commenting here like you're his editor, and several of the points in your comment reflect that same attitude while also being unnecessarily mean (like the Utada Hikaru fan comment or the annoyance about J-K sharing a few sentences about his XB3 playthrough). There is no correlation between J-K enjoying XB3 and making some kind of mistake about Digimon. I mean, J-K loves Digimon so this particular statement is also very strange. Our editorial writers' opinions are expected to have a factual basis, and if J-K had written something highly critical or negative based on misinformation or without a factual basis, he would be expected to correct it. What I've seen in the comments of his column is that he has always quickly made corrections when needed and admitted to his mistakes when they are pointed out. |
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FinalVentCard
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My contempt for Fairy Tail is already on the record--can you blame a guy for trying to be diplomatic to folks?  For real, I know Fairy Tail fans can be serious proselytizers. Dunno what they see in it, don't want any of it, but it doesn't mean I think less of them for it and I don't want to come off as thinking they're lesser for it. I lived through the era where "JRPG" was a four-letter word. I might think Fairy Tail fans need to read another book, but they don't deserve to feel bad for liking Fairy Tail.
I saw someone point out on Twitter that Maria's redesign is likely the result of there not being enough women on the dev team--which hurts because Maria's outfit is something a lot of women like. I do not remember the exact phrasing he used, but he pointed out that women do love "serving [expletive]" in leopard-print and crop-tops. It's more of an issue when that's exclusively the default for every female character in a game, and even then most folks will excuse it if the character a) serves enough [expletive] or b) the game isn't weirdly exploitative (see: David Cage). It's a shame because yeah, the outfit is thematically important to Maria's central character, and not even in a dumb "you will regret your words and deeds because this character breathes through their skin!"-kinda way. I like your comparison, it does seem like they looked at the Resident Evil remakes and tried aiming for their newer, more down-to-Earth aesthetic without really understanding it or applying it well. At least the outfit redesign isn't that bad; it does feel in like with the redesigned outfits Ashley and Ada got in RE4RE. |
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juaifan
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For the longest time the critique against female character design in games (or any nerd hobby really) was the result of it being a boys club and men never having seen a real woman before. It's the entire basis for communities like r/mendrawingwomen and especially noticeable in the anime community where people mistake female artists who draw ecchi for male all the time. This just sounds like someone either trying to pass the buck or trying to get the "they're taking away our sexy women" crowd to support the "hire more women" crowd by trying to convince people more women in the industry would make video games sexy again. The redesigns for Maria and the other female characters just looks like the typical de-sexualization of female characters that's been going on for ages now. No real different than giving Jill, Ashley, and Ada pants in the Resident Evil remakes and cutting out certain scenes in those games. Admittedly the fact Maria is still wearing a dress at all would actually put her above the Resident Evil remake changes. |
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