Your questions are easy to answer: Marina has boobs.

That’s literally all.

All other aspects of their design are irrelevant. No matter how much people say otherwise, I can promise you that.

Look at Marina. She’s... weirdly sexualized for a game like this; her design prominently centers on her breasts which are super out of place considering no other female squid has boobs whatsoever.

I’m sur the intention wasn’t this but the game screams furry porn fodder.

“After a solid 20 years in development—or roughly twice as long as Final Fantasy XV—Grimoire is out today.”

Eh, I dunno about this. He should have highest standards, period. He’s a professional and he is expected to hold his composure on these types of situation. That is that. Being rich and having a very active public image (at least within his job’s context) has drawbacks. Something something power something…

Why were you asking in the first place? Why do you care? Just play it if it seems interesting to you, or don’t play it at all. That’s always been the core of a Final Fantasy game. Final Fantasy X had a water sport, Final Fantasy VII had a snowboarding and a biking sequence — both of which were plot crucial. Final…

I’m sorry but I don’t buy that a semi-functional human being that’s not completely socially retarded cannot distinguish between a “pretty boy” and a woman. Be it in a Final Fantasy game or anywhere else.

I realize some countries are stupidly self-centered in their culture and anything even remotely foreign to them “all…

Do you really think she looks like a powerful martial artist?

Not invoking the rule of realism or anything, the protagonist doesn’t exactly look like a powerful swordsman either, but let’s be real; she’s a sexualized character who was made specifically for that purpose (thus the heart shit and the bunny outfit) — that…

You haven’t even had normal sex and you’re already going for the kinky shit?

I’m happy that’s the first thing you consider about a character: How fuckable she is.

Nope, not at all objectifying of you. It’s all a feminist myth.

> “or victims of hundreds of zippers.”

Instead, we get victims of Toriyama’s complete and utter incapacity to draw something that doesn’t look like either Goku, Bulma or Vegeta with a different hair style.

Bias is such a fascinating thing to see in action. 

Nothing. It’s a traditional series. There is literally nothing outstanding or that hasn’t been completely perfected in other series.

Maybe that’s why people like it, coupled with the awful, same-y designs of Toriyama who, unfortunately, is still very connected to this generation’s nostalgia.

Jesus fucking Christ, can Japan make one [1] character who is a young woman and also simultaneously not defined by how pretty or how sexy she is?

We had Lightning a billion years ago, can we get another? Kinda sick of these games catering to the massive mass of sexually frustrated Japanese men already.

It isn’t canon. It literally can’t be.

They’ll forcefeed that idea to you, it sells copies, but it can’t be. And I have a very strong feeling that P3's writer (and creator) also agrees but doesn’t have much of a voice in the matter.

> “I’m referring to Minako/Hamuko/Shiomi or whatever the protagonist of P3P’s female route is officially called. “

There is no “official” name. The “official” description of the games is that you are the protagonist. That is the name of the game on a literal sense: The protagonist is you.

The “official” name is whatever…

I’m probably alone in this but I have to admit it hurts me just a tiny bit to see this series pander in this way.

I don’t normally mind “milking”, videogames are a product no matter how you slice it and something’s got to pay the bills — and they’re not cheap bills either. But seeing a series so initially beloved for…

Read: You don’t want to pay for it.

The hardware isn’t discontinued and neither is the game. You can buy a PS3 online. You can even buy the digital copy of Demon’s Souls on PSN, like right now, for peanuts.

But we all know that your interest is... “preseeeerving” it for the future, am I right? That’s what emulators are…

I’m sorry. You literally just noted that you’re obsessed with buying shit you positively don’t need, calling yourself a “collector”, and then you say you feel “guilt” over scalping other people?

...Y’know, using the money you’re supposed to cover expenses with?

...Instead of buying crap for a videogame collection?

I’m…

They aren’t pissing away money, if this was an endless supply it wouldn’t sell nearly as much.

Perceived rarity sells things. It sells things fast. These things are emulators; if it cost them more than 30 bucks to make, I’d be shocked. This is the easiest and quickest buck Nintendo’s ever made and they’ll continue…

American people fucking terrify me.

My favourite RPG is Shin Megami Tensei III: Lucifer’s Call. I think it’s called Nocturne in the US. The game can be punishingly difficult if you try to play it “your way”, so it really feels different to the typical JRPG stuff which is (at least for me) usually pretty faceroll. Even Final Fantasy, which people tout as…