Only if CK’s medieval soundtrack is replaced by early 00s punk and ska.
I agree for the most part, especially with your first paragraph. I would add that I think that FFVII is the only mainline FF that engages with and questions real societal issues in a meaningful way. These were also issues that are complex and still rare for AAA games to explore - the exploitation of nature and climate…
For sure, but it also says a lot that midway through production it was stretched from a 20 minute anime episode to a full feature film. I wonder how much better / more coherent it could have been if Nomura & Co had been planning that way from the start. It probably still would have been hot anime nonsense, but maybe…
Square: “It’s a meta commentary on online culture and gaming - Sephiroth’s the ultimate troll.”
You’re right - I had thought for some reason he was in charge of XIII as well as XV, but XIII was somebody else’s mess.
Yeah, I have those same concerns. (SPOILERS here as well) I’m not someone who needs the remake to be completely faithful, but in itself the act of having the party fight a god of fate and Sephiroth himself really throws off the typical plot escalation. The escalation in the original is so gradual and well done - one…
It doesn’t explicitly change it, but the open-ended nature of FFVII’s ending leaves a lot of options open for interpretation. Since one of the main possible interpretations was that Holy may have wiped out Midgar (and by extension, a chunk of humanity and likely the main cast) in its efforts to protect the planet,…
I completely agree - my biggest issue with Advent Children is that almost all of the characters feel like caricatures of themselves at best or completely misunderstood representations at worst, not like the beloved cast that struggled, grew, and overcame massive obstacles over the course of a global battle. Cloud was…
It’s just fucking insane. List of completely normal things I haven’t done in six months because it’s a fucking pandemic:
Ari: *writes a lovely article highlighting some great indie gems that people may unwittingly have access to already and could miss in a time when there are exponentially more releases than ever, and simply expresses the joy it’s bringing them in our current hellscape*
Very true! And on the topic of “why wouldn’t Palpatine have more than one backup hard drive clone of himself?”, maybe because the Sith’s version of immortality is so forced and unnatural, it corrupts and weakens over time, an imperfect copy of an imperfect copy, etc. So when they do find this Palpa-clone, he’s the…
I’ve been wondering this as well. I’ve been playing Smash since the original but have never been to an actual tournament (I’m neither good enough nor competitive enough), but I have a few friends who were really into that scene in college and I’ve read about it and watched from a distance out of curiosity. My personal…
Haha such a blast from the past. I was an angsty emo teenager who loved the first game and was SO PUMPED by that dumb commercial, and even then I thought the game itself was embarrassingly angsty and went too far with it. I’d love to hear the game developers reminisce about those choices in retrospect. But that combat…
As others have mentioned, the game looks pretty unremarkable, but what really stood out to me...what the fuck is up with this trailer music??? It’s so out of place that it pulled me right out of the action. A bland game about Greek mythology using a track that mixes James Brown, orchestral swells, and dubstep bass…
Honestly, I’d pay for a remake of Warrior Within just to witness that early 2000s emo fest and an overall tone that just makes no sense whatsoever within the franchise. I can’t imagine that game has even remotely aged well. Sands of Time and Two Thrones have a more timeless storytelling tone in comparison, but…
I’m sure motion capture is one of the most challenging aspects of modern development in a pandemic, which probably accounts for some of that jank, but still...those facial animations are not great.
100% agree. Scott Pilgrim is a great game, but carries forward tons of flaws and frustrations that have plagued the genre (especially tons of cheap hits from enemies). River City Girls is a better game with kickass flavor and style, and it plays like a dream.
Yes, it’s easy (and somewhat earned) to point and laugh at the dumb students putting themselves at risk for red cup parties and a social group they have to buy into. But it’s also incredibly disheartening to see university systems admonish a bunch of reckless and horny teenagers for failing to make rational decisions,…
What I'm really getting from this is that the SNES was one of the best values in console history. The bang per buck ratio is ridiculous!