Assassin, the original party game this and all iterations of games like this are drawn from, has been a thing for several decades, so.

CGI would never be able to capture the aliens in the series, and/or it would be way to expensive to create the look of the Spartans + the Covenant with conventional make-up and prop work.

Bashcraft and other authors rarely read comments on smaller articles like this. There’s a difference between a lengthy blog post they write about something they’ve done original research/writing about and slightly rewording a press junket to push what amounts to a written ad to the site.

That’s not what a second persona perspective is, at all. You’re looking for the term audience surrogate.

The way I see it: Vaan is the audience insert within the Greek/Shakespearean tragedy that is FF12, and the true story is supposed to revolve around Basch, Ashe, and Balthier.

It’s based on the Ifrit from FFXIV

Final Fantasy XVI: Game of Witchering Thrones!!!

All very fair points, as well.

God, remember when John Boyega was so hype to be part of Star Wars because they’d told him, almost verbatim, he was the new star of the films?

AFAIK only the tops of the food chain will get anything resembling a bonus or something when it comes to a videogame selling well. The people underneath them, ie the majority of the workers who make videogames a thing, typically only get paid for the job they do up until the game is published and shipped to retail.

For further consideration (remove the space after the first period, cuz the image is fairly long):

but most of the stuff that you talked about blood purity is the philosophy of the villains.

I mean, Rowling wrote the films and is on record defending her decision and where the idea/name for the character came from. That’s, like. The most direct connection you can get lmao

I absolutely love him! The fact that he basically made a name for himself through hard work and sticking to what he does best really gives me hope that other potential VO-hopefuls can do the same.

Excellent point. And I’m sure people, again, are going to buy the game regardless—but, in my mind, the hope in having these conversations is to spread awareness and maybe clue people in on why others might be criticizing these decisions.

It’s been a spell (heh) since I’ve read the series, though, so there might be some things I missed previously that are super-bad in light of who JK’s revealed herself to be.

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There you go.