I don’t think we should be holding up Alan “Rape is an amazing Plot Device that Will and Must Show Up In All of My Works,” Moore to any level of “better than anyone else,” within the context of any conversation about literary or political anything.

I know it was a huge departure from the previous games, but I absolutely love the world building and how the game kind of wants you to fail a few times in order to get the best ending.

Well, Capcom seems very risk-averse nowadays so I can see why they wouldn’t want to throw their might behind a game that wasn’t a standout franchise even in its heyday.

Thank you, Mr. Tieryas, for another wonderful weekend of writing!

Too bad Kamiya hates Capcom, nowadays

I mean, that goes without saying lmao

Lu Bu has a tragic weakness known as Betrayal so I’m not sure I’d rank him that high up there

He’s never negated magical attacks, so no. There are also several dozen characters that can potentially kill him, a list of which includes not only alternate reality versions of Superman but also Darkseid, Zatanna, Dr. Fate, Lucifer Morningstar, and literally any 4th or higher dimensional level being.

Fayt Leingod from Star Ocean: Til The End of Time might be a contender for beating Fei, tbh. His power is meant to specifically be able to warp the laws of physics and impose them on other dimensions, as it was created to combat 4th dimensional beings.

I ALMOST would’ve gone with Ashura, tbh, but since he’s got a soft spot for women and iirc has the same superpower as the Hulk (gets stronger the angrier he is) that’s an auto-lose against Bayo.

Bayo would just swoop in and bitchslap all of Dante’s problems, so I don’t see why this hasn’t happened yet other than she’s too pretty and petty to care about him.

What I love about SMT is that it’s usually about a rebirth of some kind. A doing away of the old, which didn’t work—or was too corrupt to be allowed to exist—so that something new and different can come into existence, even if the events that bring about these changes are put into motion by people/entities that want…

Her entire SCHTICK is: “Look hot, kick ass.”

the writers assumed the audience was as dense as Simon and would need it repeated to them ad nauseum otherwise we simply wouldn’t “get” it.

Bayonetta.

You are consistently one of my favorite writers on videogames, just want to let you know :)

I mean, now we have to ask. Why’d you hate it?

SOMA was effing fantastic. I know that it’s basically a walking simulator with all the hiding and “puzzling” you do to open up areas, but the narrative really struck with me and the twist at the end seriously creeped me out in a way that more jump-scare reliant horror games never managed.

GT had the following:

Nothing about the game is “better” than the games it cribs from, though.