FFVIIR has at least one pretty-decent mom in it too, even if Elmyra doesn’t get much screen time.

I guess to answer it, it would require knowing if you despise “kids in media” or “kids in real life” because those are often very different things. Marlene and (most of) the other kids in the game feel like they were written by people who have actually spent time interacting and playing with children. Especially the…

The whole “afro hair is like a bird’s nest so we’ll make it a literal one” thing always felt *deeply* racist, and really at odds with an otherwise-good character

The bar was low, but he did indeed step over it for the “Best FFXIII character” title.

Kinja flatly refuses to load your other comment, so RE:
“That was the same queen from the first game...”

Their leader murders a child, and from that point, they’re treated the exact same as any other enemy. Including, nonsensically, having the same kind of heavy enemies, and then being the last major fight of the game.

Dear god.. I remember when I got to the “twist” in BI where the rebels are suddenly somehow just as bad as the slavers and I just... put the game down. Like, WTF, what were the writers even thinking

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See, if that was actually the case, it would have been fine. But it wasn’t. “Your” Rachnai or “random other” Rachnai doesn’t matter. They just get assimilated by the reapers regardless.

You know there’s a huge community based around hard mario levels, right?

I’m sorry that including other difficulty options apparently forces you to play those instead of your preferred hard mode.

Huh, yet another new account created just to defend Scott Cawthon. Lotta that going around today

https://skepchick.org/2017/08/popper-and-the-paradox-of-tolerance/

I mean, people legit criticized FFXV for the k-pop boyband look too, but at least there you had a setting where that fit in.

I mean, that’s not a BAD thing. But even in FFXIV, level 1 characters look like they belong in the setting.

That’s the best description for Blandboy McBuzzcut there that I’ve read all week

It’s a bit more specific than that. It’s “regular person from our normal non-magical Earth gets pulled into a parallel fantastical world and becomes the protagonist/hero there”. But yes, Evil Dead is basically an isekai story.

Exactly! ME 1 and 2 felt like your decisions mattered. ME3 they just tossed all that out the window. The only redeeming value was little character moments like the one in the article. The character writing was *so good* but the overarching plot let it down at every turn.

At least “Xbox Exclusive” seems to also include “windows PC release” so the loss stings a bit less.

ME3's sidequests flat undoing so many important decisions from previous games soured me on it worse than the colored lights did, honestly. “Oh, you blew up the collector base? No you didn’t.” “Oh, you killed the rachnai queen? There’s another one and it changes nothing.” etc, etc.