There’s references to The Bouncer and Versus XIII here and there (Pence wears the Dogstreet brand from The Bouncer and the after-credits scene from KH3 is almost identical to the first trailer of Versus XIII), so it’s not out of the realm of possibility.

Black Cauldron would make such a hype video game location.

Most sandwiches need cheese in my opinion but that’s just, like, my opinion, man.

Well, this is where I have to remind myself that Nomura is not a storyteller by trade. He’s an artist by background. This isn’t necessarily or even normally a problem, for what it’s worth; in fact, some of the world’s best storytellers aren’t classically trained writers.

I hope you take this in the spirit it’s intended, but if I know KH, some of those things weren’t wrapped up afterall....

Hell yeah, glad they seem to be leaning more into the crazy side of KH in this one! 3 was kinda lacking in that department to be honest. I mean, the last 8 hours or so were great but going through some of the disney worlds was so boring in my opinion. The ones with original content were great but they basically just…

Nomura really wants FF13-Versus to happen, despite this franchise being his baby. You gotta respect that after looking at this aesthetic.

And here I thought Stranger of Paradise was full-Nomura - I was wrong.

Not Every Sandwich Needs Cheese

It is one of several Mila Kunis films that fails to understand her core appeal.

Resident Evil and Final Fantasy were mentioned on the outset, but to me those are examples of when the remake system works well. Both cover classic stories from a new perspective, arguably letting them live up to a more immersive potential than they could back when ‘high drama’ was a stocky, blocky Cloud shaking his…

I really should watch it at some point but it's longer than some feature length films and I already know NFTs are garbage.

No. It’s a video game blog and currently ER is basically dominating the entire world of video games right now. If the game wasn’t universally acclaimed then yeah, I’d probably think “not another one of these fucking articles” but considering it’s the only thing the entire industry is talking about right now it makes…

It’s possible to be self-destructive and still be big and badass.

Also, this isn’t fair use any more than me recording The Batman on my phone and posting it on the internet for people to see.

The truth is that there is a story, but you just don’t like how it’s told.

You said there’s “no lore to read through” and i told you where to find it.

It seems like you genuinely don’t understand the difference between world building and script writing. Dialogue is not world building, although it can frequently contribute to it. A world can be built without a single word being spoken.

I’m about 40 hours in, and I am enjoying it, but there are plenty of rough edges that could be sanded without ruining the Souls experience. A few:

You have a very restrictive view on what constitutes narrative and world building. RPGs have traditionally relied on very simplistic and straightforward methods of communicating with the player. The player is given a gods-eye view of the plot via scrolling text (or something equally forced) that informs them what…

Being sympathetic to the characters or understanding the plot doesn’t have anything to do with the world. The “bespoke universe” with “every corner has something to see” is world-building. Read some item or spell descriptions.

Before the talk of Elden Ring and all it’s details and talk about From Software, I never realized Kings Field was From Software. That explains why KF 2 (well, KF3 in Japan) was such a ball buster way back in the day when I first got the OG PS back in 1996.