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What a waste of potential.

Clearly you aren’t aware of the Bara genre...

Yes, I’ll take one ticket to Japan please. Round trip? Nope.

Uh, really, its not. Anyone with intuition can figure out that following the whistle and sillohet of Tidus will unlock the Good ending. The extra ending is really arbitrary in and of itself, so I don’t see why you’re making a big deal of it. It’s just a bookend to mirror the Zanarkand introduction of the first game.

The perfect ending is really superficial though. The endings that count are either choosing to follow the whistles or not. Thats what decides if Tidus comes back or not. Its completely up to the player. The 100% ending is a bonus to the ending that brings Tidus back.

You do know that X-2 was in the works prior to the merger? Enix and Square don’t mix their development teams. They share a board of directors, and a bank account, but that’s about it. You’ll notice that Enix has never done a DQ sequel. Enix is actually the weaker of the two in terms of presence. They’re a cautious,…

What made it so interesting is it was the first time that a Final Fantasy game allowed you access to more than just your current class. Rather than forcing you to pick just one class or arsenal and praying you were suitable prepared for whatever random encounter came next, FFX-2 allowed you to have a wide range of…

X-2 came at a very strange time for me. First year of highschool, hitting the worst of puberty, and facing death in the face for the first time with a terminally ill family member in the house. X-2 was a welcome retreat from a super serious day to day life that always felt like it was going to fall apart. So despite…

Its Square. They will continue to try and make sure every Final Fantasy is available to the widest possible audience. They’ve been doing this since the Wonder Swan, and will continue to do so as long as the company exists. No point in acting surprised.

In all fairness towards some of your points, X-2 gives you choices. You can choose to let Tidus stay dead if you like, and let Yuna embrace a future without him. That was sort of a large message of X-2: Choosing what to do with the future when presented possibilities you hadn’t been given before. Nearly every mission…

Honestly, TBG has taken off itself in a big way. Now that we have a culture where anything can be consumer-funded, more and more independent games are coming out. Now these cost a lot of money to produce, and aren’t exactly eco-friendly with all the cardboard and paper required. Taking virtually? Saves money on…

This is pretty much where Microsoft’s VR can probably take off big time. I can totally see a new wave of interactive table-top gaming. No more flat maps, peices getting lost, or piles of paper, or the DM constantly hidden behind a screen.

I really don’t get this “Out with the old, in with the new.” treatment every time a new console comes out. My SNES still hasn’t even collected dust, and I hear about people selling a (relatively) good last gen console just to get a new one.

I’d also like to note that this fan film ironically lacks any sort of subtle or tension. We see the monster, we know what its doing, and if you’ve played the game, you know exactly what will happen. That isn’t exactly horror. No tension, no scare.

I suppose it should be a worrying statement that I played the hell out of the Bushido Blade demo, just to abuse the ‘cripple system’. Unlike it’s sequel, which was one strike to kill, you could literally cut your opponent to to size and watch them limp around after you, desperate for vengeance to the last virtual…

Until we have better gamepads or gamepad adaptors for cellphones, I’m never going to spend more than a few dollars on a Mobil game because I don’t expect a proper gaming experience with touch screen. I have never encountered a touch screen game that was more than a tap-fest that I didn’t ultimately hate for wonky…

My mother ‘almost ‘ got me in a divorce. Practically a teen pregnancy, and my father barely 21. My mother is on record of being the worst of the worst; Manipulative, selfish, self-martyring against a world she feels never gives her the due she feels she’s owed by default. My dad booked it back to his parents when he…

I’m not that impressed from a horror angle. It has good CGI production value, but it’s major flaw is really the thing that is the downfall of most CGI that isn’t the absolute top of the line: Lighting. Bloom, glossy reflective surfaces, ‘not really dark’, and artificial grungyness that feels ironically clean and…

Oooh boy. This is gonna go interesting place. (Not really.)