I want the rivals in the main games to be more like this.

I recently met with a workmate and he started ranting about how he’s not racist and it’s fine to say the (English) n-word while getting mad at video games with his friends.

He’s a silly one. M R James’ writing scares me a lot more.

I hadn’t realised until a couple of years ago just how comically fragile Lovecraft was - even by his own day’s standards. I knew about the racism and general xenophobia but simply not to the extent it was.
Apparently Shadow Over Innsmouth was inspired by his discovery that he had Welsh ancestry.

I get it. She’s got that Elvira look going on.

This made me cackle, I love it!

That’s a shame. Hope whatever replaces it is good and embraces the escalator design on the outside.

Those trashy kids with their fuckin delicious food. Losers!

Hinox

That’s a great example considering the traditional depiction of a kasha is....not like that.

In no real order or amount;

That’s a weird lookin fox. Its face is bald. 

I think I have been spoiled by Breath of the Wild. Which, sure, also succumbed to the open-world trend of “oh it’s just the 20th korok puzzle”.

The magnifier light for the Gameboy Colour. I played Pokemon Blue under the sheets while pretending to be asleep, and made it through Rock Tunnel that way.
 This sounds weird.

I’ve watched the first season of RE:Rise so am aware of the twist (that’s what made me change my mind about the whole real vs super thing). It was ok, I certainly preferred it to Build Divers. But I do miss the gunpla aspect of the first two Build Fighters shows.

Yes, it’s the blurring of them that I’d forgotten because a ton of mech shows these days contain aspects of both that lead me to just ignoring the distinction entirely. That’s why I was caught up on strict definitions of the genre (the military stuff being why I thought Virtual On was more “real robot” than the game…

“Feared for my life because a human hand slapped the back of my van”.

I think the distinction for me is that Virtual On is a militaristic training sim which ties more into the mecha being real, and Build Divers heavily emphasises the isekai MMO game so that in-canon they are basically toys. I know the series subverts that somewhat but it really had to lean into the fantasy in order to…

I’d have said it holds more in common with super robots. Even if it’s part of THE real robot franchise.
Or, more specifically, I’d say it’s a mix of both since they’re not completely separate. It feels much more like a Super Robot genre in tone. I think part of this, for me, is because the technical aspects don’t…

I get where you’re coming from, but genre-wise it’s just another isekai. No “real robot” stuff.