No mention of the 168 children that were killed when they bombed an elementary school on the first day of the war. Liberals keep dismissing the lives of Iranian children just like they’ve spent years dismissing the lives of Palestinian children.
FF16 was such a bait-and-switch.
We all thought it was returning to classic FF roots with the more pure-medieval setting, until the game came out and it turned out to be a cynical attempt to cash in on Game of Thrones' popularity, but had come out long after GoT had shot itself in the foot and people had started to hate it.
Still not the worst bait-and-switch the franchise ever pulled. That was FF7 Remake.
Mishima’s whole deal is way more aesthetic fetish than any real lived experience.
He never actually knew war or real conflict he spent his whole adult life in this pacifist, post-war Japan that was trying to move on and get rich.
A gay aesthete who reinvented himself as the last samurai in a Japanese society that didn’t want any of that warrior shit anymore. It works like crazy on guys who are desperate for some kind of meaning or purpose.
For the Korean War, he experienced it as this young anti-communist writer in Japan while the country was cashing in on all the US military orders. Never set foot anywhere near the fighting. He was just sitting at his desk, talking about the big world tensions, and building up his own personal warrior myth at the same time.
It's odd especially when it comes to RPGs that people have this tendency to separate individual aspects of games as if they're divorced from one another, instead of one messy but whole piece of art. The music 6/10 story 7/10 combat 4/10 mentality ig.
Will never say exploration in XIII was a draw but generally find the repeated arguments on both games' linearity to be missing the point of either entirely. Personally don't think XIII has poor level design bc it does its job of serving the narrative being told.
FF has a tendency to bring these circular arguments about but again: X is a pilgrimage, XIII is an escape. The Calm Lands and Gran Pulse are coincidentally set at similar points of the story, but serve different purposes.
need to foster a media career so can reach the level where it would be possible for me to tell onew directly I'd like to fuse with his body like a male anglerfish