Oxxidation posted:

best is when you hit that line just as the All-Out attack's splash screen pops up

Tales of Woe posted:

the paper mario ones are like 2 seconds long

Tired Moritz posted:

the music is also terrible, and I have no idea why people keep saying it's a good point in the game's favor.

Oxxidation posted:

it has some good songs, but the soundtrack is uneven and discordant because it's made up of guest artists contributing music to the overall product

that sort of thing might fly with homestuck, less so when you have music playing at all times

wafflemoose posted:

Yikes, that combat video. Yeah that does seem excessive. Definitely gonna pass then.

Zereth posted:

Based on what I've heard it also has several pretty loving lovely songs.

Electric Phantasm posted:

Remember you have to do a minigame for every action including the enemies. Have fun when the enemies start having AoE attacks and you have to do a timing minigame for everyone.

Morpheus posted:

Yiik does not have Paper-Mario-style combat. It has Sonic Brotherhood-style combat, but somehow worse, and that is a game with terrible, slow, boring combat.

Cephas posted:

I think new sincerity works if it's about exploring what makes a human being or a society good and lovable while staring unflinchingly at the things that put that goodness in jeopardy. When Wallace talks about it, I think the idea of new sincerity has more to do with a sense of ethics than a sense of aesthetics. It's about trying to break away from aesthetics that are cool and are safe in their emptiness of meaning, and about trying to honestly talk about troubles and things that matter. It's a pretty far cry from the hollow "more fun, more awesome" definition.

The clearest example I can think of for an artist who makes new sincerity work is Rebecca Sugar, whose stated artistic mission with Steven Universe is to instill in children the value that being kind to the people around you is strength and that healthily exploring your feelings is nothing short of a moral imperative.


My takeaway from the book was that (spoilers for a paul auster novel in the RPG thread) the first two stories were written by the protagonist of the third story, who has a deep flaw in his personality that prevents him from developing a sense of self-esteem or a sense of a worthwhile identity. The first two stories are about deciding to transform yourself into someone else at a stranger's request, and occupying a limited range of experiences as that person you've decided to become, presumably because you didn't value your life or your identity before that point. In the third story, the protagonist has a single, offhanded line where he says that he wrote the first two stories. He has a deep fixation on his childhood friend, whom he seems to view as a much more meaningful person than he is.

It's been a while since I read it, so I'm sure I'm forgetting some important details. I guess with MGS2 I can see a basic similarity with the New York Trilogy in how Raiden, who lacks much of a sense of self ("doesn't have a single poster in his bedroom"; traumatized child soldier) and ends up taking a strange mission that tries to transform him into Solid Snake.

HGH posted:

The more you describe this the more I just remember this.

EDIT: Woops, shoulda paid more attention.

Looper posted:

itt post about things you like, sincerely

klapman posted:

So for Wild Arms 3, is there some kinda tip system that lets me know where to go if I get stuck? The other day I quit immediately after it told me where to go and forgot by the time I started again, and none of the NPCs around had any tips.

CharlestheHammer posted:

I mean yeah that’s literally what cults are.

cheetah7071 posted:

The opposite of sincerity isn't criticism it's insincerity

The Colonel posted:

i mean

even bleak stories can have messages about holding on through hosed up tragedy and not letting it consume you whole

klapman posted:

So for Wild Arms 3, is there some kinda tip system that lets me know where to go if I get stuck? The other day I quit immediately after it told me where to go and forgot by the time I started again, and none of the NPCs around had any tips. Ended up wandering aimlessly in a completely irrelevant area until I looked up a guide. It's written with weird translations of the Japanese names for things so it's not a huge deal spoiler-wise, but it would be nice if I could just stay in the game if this comes up again.

I beat Chapter 1 and saw that there's four chapters in the game. I'm not actually a quarter of the way through already, am I?

NikkolasKing posted:

A lot of Japanese media I see in anime and video games is built on this "we must always have hope!" message, though. The world is terrible, people are cruel, life is meaningless and full of suffering, but you have to soldier on anyway because....uh..... (Don't think about that part) Just have hope!

al-azad posted:

Act 4 is the final episode and nobody talks about the final episode.

Looper posted:

itt post about things you like, sincerely

Endorph posted:

thats because you're playing games for children

and also usually the reason those games offer is because you have people who love you and want to be with you, which isnt a bad message honestly. you shouldnt live entirely for other people's sake but friends and people you care about are a large part of getting out of those kinds of funks

CharlestheHammer posted:

Well I mean that’s more a shonen thing and shonen are aimed at kids so it’s not exactly shocking they don’t go full bleak.

NikkolasKing posted:

Like, why is this a triumph? How is Shinji or anyone going to be happier now? He's just gonna starve to death in a couple weeks or something. (assuming that ending is perfectly literal and not metaphorical or some poo poo)

NikkolasKing posted:

The Colonel posted:

weird meme considering how few shows i can think of that this applies to

The White Dragon posted:

Endorph posted:

the 'new sincerity' thing just reminds me of

https://twitter.com/xoxogossipgita/status/1079107732827967489

if you constantly fetishize 'hope' and 'sincerity' then you create a world and a scenario in which any criticism and any distrust is bad and the result of a bad person

im 100% for the take that the internet and people in general are way too cynical and there's this weird cult of cynicism going on where a lot of people seem to think criticism is somehow more 'intelligent' than praise, but there's a difference between giving people an inroad to just, engaging with something as it is, and creating a groupthink where praise is somehow valued above criticism. criticism, distrust, and negativity can be sincere too. the hope should be for people to engage with things honestly and give them an honest chance, and be straightforward about their criticisms and praise instead of coaching it in memes and groupthink. it's not like you can't criticize marvel movies legitimately just because cinemasins sucks, as an example.

Looper posted:

itt post about things you like, sincerely

Looper posted:

itt post about things you like, sincerely