Also, it’s kind of funny how much they pushed Lightning when in fact the real protagonists are Vanille and Fang

It’s not so much Lightning is bad (she’s mostly just kind of bland and inoffensive) as Square kept trying over and over again to make her the next big thing. It’s like how you see movie producers or studios try to push some generic white person as “the next great leading man/woman” and audiences just don’t care. If…

Yeah, they basically tried to screw Nintendo out of their own money and Nintendo was not having any of it.

And the thing is, we could have forgiven that if the story was worth telling and the characters were engaging. Neither of those are true; you’re just stuck with worthless people who act like idiots in a plot that’s just dull.

It’s because Yoshida has such a cashcow that the executives can’t bully him. He’s got equal authority with guys like Nomura and Kitase so he can say what he wants without them throwing their weight.

They TRIED to make her Cloud, but forgot there was already a female Cloud: her name is Aya Brea from Parasite Eve and she’s fucking great because while she has BROAD similarities to Cloud (who’s also great) she has much more distinction and wasn’t just made to remind people of someone else.

It’s trying to do a “Cahiers du Cinema” thing, but unfortunately I notice a lot of these critics (mostly pasty white, cishet suburbanites) pick the WORST examples. Twilight for instance got unfair misogynist flack...but it’s still a misogynist, racist, creepoid series and Stephanie Meyer is an overly-privileged…

I would say it was with XII when that spiral downward began, but XIII really cemented FF from being this rebellious, innovative series that wasn’t afraid to do new things into an utterly safe, cowardly series (save for XIV). A lot of it has to do with guys like Kitase and Nomura who seem to believe that FF has a…

I would say 15 is more competent than 13 in terms of, well, EVERYTHING, but it’s also WAY more boring if nowhere near as grating.

Good. Judd can go straight to hell

The only ones that jumped out at me were Bravely Default II and No More Heroes II. Everything else was blah

XboxSeX

honestly surprised by that one; I figured it would be Death Stranding or Smash Bros

it’s mostly Yoshi-P who’s been pushing it because he was a huge fan of Tactics Ogre which was also made by Yasumi Matsuno.

Vagrant Story is Dark Souls if it actually had a narrative

Considering how FFXII went down, the only way it happens is if he gets zero interference from the executives. So yeah, not gonna happen

It’s almost like he doesn’t actually want them to have authority he can’t control.

If there’s one thing I’ve learned about old men it’s that they can’t stand younger people calling them out because they know they don’t have a rebuttal. Gatoh knows he’s got nothing which is why he lashes out. Fuck him

Another techbro turns out to be a pile of shit. It’s almost like there’s a pattern here

The thing that absolutely BAFFLES me is how EA keeps trying to avoid putting stuff on the Switch. When people are scrambling to port stuff like The Witcher 3, Overwatch, and Doom to the system then the fact that EA hasn’t tried to do the same with, say, Dragon Age Inquisition or Battlefield it’s fucking bizarre. Heck,…