Man, this game deserved SO much more attention and MS completely dropped the ball with Mistwalker (and they would continue to drop the ball with exclusive and 1st parties). It had really great characters and a fascinating world.

There’s no way they ONLY spent $95 million on this movie. They are looking at the biggest flop of the year

Yeah, apparently people aren’t allowed to criticize creators because that’s “betrayal.” It’s basically the adage of “Just shut up and enjoy what I tell you.”

Yeah, those would be under “Worst Gaming Moments” rather than “Disappointing.” Disappointing requires there be some sort of hype for it.

Also, I’m keeping an eye on the white cishet lib Youtubers who will try to say “Well, she didn’t deserve al those nasty insults” a couple years down the line. Stephanie Meyer did not earn that defense and neither will Rowling. She’s worthless

Now would be a really good time to start pointing to other authors that are more deserving of our attention and money due to not being trashfires of people.

Okay, I’ll read the books while saying their author is a retrograde dumbass who makes excuses for transphobes and wife beaters.

Christopher Nolan: I‘ve been fucking with your heads for nearly twenty years now and you all love it!

I’m convinced that Nolan is also head of the wardrobe department and goddamn, he’s got some great taste

Pure shellshock

So wait for video cuz I sure as hell ain’t giving money to two hacks like Weber and Hooper

Yeah, and it wasn’t just Lightning; Kitase tried to make the game’s director, Toriyama, into the next golden boy for years and it was a goddamned disaster. Not only was he allowed two more chances with XIII’s sequels (which of course had diminishing returns in the story and sales departments) he also was allowed to…

Yeah, I save my “defenses” for games that have strong themes that resonate, were controversial, or flew under the radar. Square-Enix is one of the most coddled and privileged companies in the world; it’s like making defenses for Warner Bros.

The latest expansion for FFXIV

Yeah, I remember Toriyama (the director) trying to excuse the lack of exploration and towns by saying they would somehow get in the way of the story. Considering there had been plenty of RPGs released that gene (including Japanese ones, some even made by Square) that did have towns and exploration, that was him just…

-Looks at Motomu Toriyama’s track record-

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.