It 100% is. The games basically started with Kojima having people do caricatures of actors he liked as if he was casting them for a movie, and the name Snake was definitely derived (along with many plot elements from Escape from New York)

What the hell is with Maria dancing with Club Penguin dudes at the end of the trailer?!

I think since those words are all in English in Japanese, it’s a case of reverse weeaboo. They might know generally what each word is in English, but the same word in Japanese can convey different things. There is also definitely something cool about including vaguely programming-like jargon: see Fate/StayNight,…

They kind of pulled that move with Symmetra already.

For me that would probably go to Seymour Guado. God, that guy was an insufferable edgelord. Vaan may be an idiot with a pretty punchable face, but he’s a good kid at heart, and by Revenant Wings he’s matured into a believably cool person, which he largely wasn’t in XII. I just wish they hadn’t chosen to shift focus to…

“I’M CAPTAIN BASCH!”

Critical existence failure. Author dropped it months ago, busy with like 3 jobs

The joke is that reboot Dante got fired as a protagonist and works a crappy job trying to support a family. No game reference, just crapping on the dude.

No to mention d1 had plenty of stuff about guardians killing themselves repeatedly for hints of who they were and stuff. Awful writing done so that the new npc can be rebellious and iconoclastic... even if it involves completely making up a taboo for her to ignore. Damn, Bungie, you just keep letting me down.

Dissidia was fine, very accessible I thought, once you got the basic “bravery attacks are for building damage” mechanic.

The approach asks “hey I need some advice, if you’ll listen” first; that is the contact point. The situation itself is kind of irrelevant, but shows a (false) sensitivity towards how girls think by asking one respectfully. Most books emphasize that these words are just words to get laid, memorize or improvise off them.

The outfits and machines were godawful in that game. But I maintain the battle would have been a lot of fun if you could only issue a ‘go here, shoot/defend/whatever’ rally point type system to each squadmate and they ratcheted up the general difficulty a ton.

VC 2 has them pulling a pretty underhanded proxy invasion by strongly supporting the Gassenarls behind the scenes. The climactic fights are with airships supplied by the Federation and Federation navy cruisers inbound to assist the Gassenarl warship Baldren retreated to. They never sent a direct force, sure, but VC 2…

One thing I liked a lot in 3 was that we meet younger versions of several characters from VC 2. While some encounters were perhaps a little strained, most let us see another side of the Gallian conflict, and characters we know will become traitors and villains during the Gallian civil war of VC 2 fighting as heroes…

FW was a lot more vertical and 3rd person shooter imo, almost closer to Lost Planet 2. Both are post-apocalyptic, sure, but it beats trying to fight MonHun, Lord of Arcana, Final Fantasy Explorers, etc for making a fantasy setting exciting.

Dammit, Penny Arcade. Lupus is wolf. Canis is dog. “Lupursine” is both more accurate and the phonemes match better between “us” and “urs”

Pokémon Rocket Tag

Thr first Appleseed movie looks pretty great, but the quality dropped every instance. By appleseed XIII it was a choppy mess. The other Shinji Aramaki movies (Harlock, Vexille, Gantz) all look pretty damn solid generally. Obviously those movies are full features with a lot more budget, but I myself wish that this…

I was exaggerating certainly, but I still contend that the power of most walkers and the psychological effect a la rattlesnake cards (cheap death touch or similar) is so much more than most other cards of similar role.

It’s courting the same trends; yugioh frequently bans everything that’s working too well. Magic tends to ride things out more, but the backlash against Unlimited Cat Works made them emergency ban because they made too many easy overpowered cards available at the same time. People are still sick of Gideon in every deck…