You don’t have to separate the artist from the art. You can acknowledge that the artist, even aspects of the art are deeply problematic, without invalidating the joy it brought you, or ignoring the positive parts/redeeming features of the work.

fwiw, the Souls games aren’t difficult the way, say, Risk of Rain or Super Meat Boy are. For the most part they’re more about puzzling encounters out, rather than precision or reflexes.

I see it’s continuing FF7-R’s aesthetic of stunning character models in low-res environments :P

Which is weird, because VII was pretty much an iteration on VI. And I say that as someone who prefers VII.

I think a lot of it’s down to right wing ideas around rugged individualism (as well as bipartisan distrust in institutions).

Well yeah, but that hardly comes through because they’re silent protagonists; and it feels like that’s deliberate.

I got the impression the Mandalorians think of The Child’s “own kind” as the Jedi, rather than the little-green-muppet race.

“only it’s obsessed with Star Wars fanservice rather than “fixing” The Last Jedi with the worst fanboy ideas ever”

irl there’s a global pandemic happening right now, and a great many people don’t believe it exists.

More the point of the character than the franchise; but it’d be nice if they had a *bit* more personality. Hell, even supporting characters like Zelda tend to be pretty flat.

It’d be nice if their characters were a *bit* more than just ciphers/archetypes/mascots. I’m not saying Mario needs to bear the emotional scars of his endless struggles, but we’ve got like a dozen Links that are all pretty much the same.

Yikes, that’s a hell of a disparity between art and animation. Do all Vanillaware games look this bad in motion?

*cue

Outside of Trump, noone believes in his hair.

One that isn’t dying of Geostigma/doesn’t think he’s Zack :P

I was planning on making VIII my jumping-on point, would you recommend against checking out the older ones then?

I should track down my copy of this. I bought it years ago, lent it to a friend without playing it and never saw it again...

I always seem to spend more time setting up Retroarch and the like than actually gaming on it. It’s too tempting just to fire up one of my myriad Steam/Gog games.

That’d be the “bad association” part :P

“The guarantee of an SSD allows game devs to, for the first time, actually shrink games due to not having to duplicate assets on disk to account for performance of a spinning drive”