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But we don't LIKE HIM as we do Tim. He's not going to get that money from us.

Yes. Unless the glasses are a personality quirk or he was raised by parents that wanted to go 100% natural, then it just comes off as a glaring inconsistency.

Simmer down weeaboo.

I could see the punchline of "guy prematurely ejaculates" a million miles away.

And when have we -ever- seen a Mass Effect character with glasses? (Battle visors don't count) It must be a Japanese creative liberty sort of thing, because it 100% doesn't fit into the Mass Effect we've seen thus far. That or it's a universal lazy shorthand to suggest a character is "brainy" or withdrawn. Neither…

And most anime is directed toward teenagers.

Please don't shoehorn every piece of western animation as being "only for kids".

Get a new emoticon.

Never saw a Mass Effect character with glasses before. Must be a Japanese thing.

Ha ha! RIM.

They probably hashed out the character details and then passed on the actual level design, debugging and what have you to the smaller DLC dev crew.

I don't think so, that's the animation for him to cast a spell, awkwardly positioned fingers and all. The style doesn't quite match, not to mention that the field looks like any number of plain outdoor battle fields from the game itself.

Woah, woah, woah, WAIT. How is Cloud from FFVII that well-rendered up there in the header image? What is that image from?

Not XIII.

I didn't say "by adults for adults", but "about adults for adults".

I want to see more actual movies like this: smooth 2D animation telling a story about adults for adults. I will definitely have to keep an eye on this when I eventually get an iSomething.

I don't know, but Heavy Rain wasn't it. Unexplained psychic links and characters suddenly knowing each other were pretty big plot holes.

You know, it doesn't matter how good the motion capture and grpahics are if they can't fulfill their mission statement of creating movies through the medium of videogames. I've yet to see one of their works that weren't filled with plot holes and cut content galore.

Anyway, all I know is that Japan has seriously dialed back the frequency of telling approachable, realistic, human stories in their games. I can't immediately think of them repeating the spirit of Silent Hill 2 or Celes actually comitting to suicide in Final Fantasy VI. Or they'll throw something as interesting (not a…