dont listen to the haters in the replies. please continue kinkshaming

you might be thinking of like a specific console port or something? 

“To me this just reeks of a desperate and hollow attempt at legitimacy”

yeah like... literally the whole thing this article is about is the devs going ‘hey please dont get burnt out playing our video game.’ when *burnout* is a common issue people have with your video game, there’s no hiding the fact that there’s a problem beyond ‘lol just have more self-control.’ 

‘united states is massively successful in dealing with poverty and homelessness’ that’s quite a religion you have there, i guess have fun with that?

i looked it up and i actually dont remember if they’re good guys or bad guys or what. i kind of assumed they were good guys because i remember parasoul and umbrella both being framed in a pretty positive light. it’s possible i’ve been mistaken bc i just happen to really like parasoul lol.

actually i looked it up and i guess they are actually bad guys? lol oops. i kind of figured parasoul was a good guy but i guess it’s been a while since i’ve played the story

i dont think it’s a can of worms being opened, i think like the vast majority of people would understand why showing a schoolgirl’s ass bulging out of her panties is not really okay. (and of the people who think it’s okay, like 99% of them would be men)

basically 100% of the people who wanted the russian voice specifically wanted mike z. it’s based on a ~2009 blazblue tutorial dvd that he was a part of, so the value is not that it’s a russian accent, it’s that it’s mike z doing a mike z bit.

the characters are tied up with tentacles with their breasts bulging out

well, the characters who have this are actually good guys, for what it’s worth.

the russian announcer would have been voiced by mike z right? like that was the whole point of it. he’s gone, so that was no longer on the table.

mike z also made a very racially insensitive joke (literally about george floyd) that caused the devs a lot of negative attention. so that kind of contextualizes their…

honestly as someone whose favorite character is parasoul, my guess is they had a good amount of hardcore fans complaining about parasoul having a nazi-like armband. and most of the devs probably agreed that that’s weird

from what i saw in the changes though, it doesn’t seem like the ecchi was even toned down that much. like one of the changes was that they covered up a girl’s ass with....... a tentacle

it’s also some of the devs not being there anymore i think. like the original main artist is gone (which imo sucks in some ways, but... is sadly probably for the best).

those are big changes but they’re not ‘reinventing the wheel’ type changes. i doubt they’ll reinvent the wheel here; it’s not really normal for them to do that without a good reason imo.

doesnt seem like youre aware of how much homelessness and poverty there is in the united states right now. that would be some homework for you to do later maybe

i can confirm firsthand what is stated near the bottom of the wikipedia article, which is that it was provided to schools for use in recruitment

not sure how to reply; it’s simply not shifting the goalposts i think

as someone who has slowly been working my way through the whole series for the first time, ff3 and ff5 are definitely underrated in the west, and would be considered legendary games if they had been released in english originally. ff5 does have flaws but there are some things it does that are just too good to miss