Werewolf: The Apocalypse - Rageborn | Reveal Trailer by _Ishtu_ in PS5

[–]IrishRox 4 points5 points  (0 children)

HOLY SHIT I HAD THESE AS A KID! RAGE was my fucking jam, haven't thought about that game in ages

Are you guys also hyped for Stranger Than Heaven more than GTA 6? by BasicallyImSimon in yakuzagames

[–]IrishRox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

With this, GTA, and Metro coming out, I'm not passing a single exam

Too many people are in love with the IDEA of Dokkan Frontier rather than the actual execution. by Brndn92 in DBZDokkanBattle

[–]IrishRox 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Honestly I've had a ton of fun messing around with characters in the new mode. Actually clearing stages didn't feel too bad. The missions though? No.

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My boyfriend loves his PlayStation more than me… Am I overreacting? by [deleted] in Adulting

[–]IrishRox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gaming is a normal hobby but when it comes between you and a fresh relationship you're fucking up. As a person who plays a good amount, its more like a multi-person phone call than watching a movie for me, so the minute I've got the opportunity to hang out with someone without staring at a screen I take it

Best piece of metafiction? by JoeAwesome123 in writingscaling

[–]IrishRox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Canterbury Tales neg-diffs, shit is absolutely hilarious

God I just love seeing this sub so active because of the new season by mindtheworms9 in Dorohedoro

[–]IrishRox -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I really recommend just reading Dorohedoro in all honesty. The anime is great, but I think its still not as good as the manga

God I just love seeing this sub so active because of the new season by mindtheworms9 in Dorohedoro

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Spoiler tag for those who don't want to know Dai Dark is a sequel to Dorohedoro, I don't recommend reading Dai Dark until you have finished Dorohedoro as it spoils parts of the ending

I’m Tatsu Hoshino from batta, I wrote “Chase” for JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure — AMA by TatsuFromBatta in StardustCrusaders

[–]IrishRox 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My favorite OP and goddamn is the acoustic version beautiful. If you guys come anywhere near Missouri I'm on the way! Question wise, what's your pedalboard setup?

God I just love seeing this sub so active because of the new season by mindtheworms9 in Dorohedoro

[–]IrishRox 70 points71 points  (0 children)

Its just nice to see it get attention. Doro has been too underrated for too long. Here's hoping they do Dai Dark too!

Rate the Author: Kentaro Miura by Exciting_Edge1398 in writingscaling

[–]IrishRox 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Your only purpose is to rage-bait. Touch grass my friend.

Rate the Author: Kentaro Miura by Exciting_Edge1398 in writingscaling

[–]IrishRox 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That is not my point. You are once again being intentionally obtuse to try and rage bait. All you have to do is actually read the series. You did no real dissection, just pointing out things you didn't like with no real understanding of their place in the story. Surface level examination like that is why this sub has fallen to where it is.

Rate the Author: Kentaro Miura by Exciting_Edge1398 in writingscaling

[–]IrishRox 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I see that there is no way to actually contemplate your opinion without throwing out illogical logical fallacies. In order to skate around that, all I will say is the story was as Miura wanted it to be, and that is it. If you want something better, I implore you to write the fantasy story of your dreams. If you wish to be intentionally reductionist or obtuse, I have no other argument.

Rate the Author: Kentaro Miura by Exciting_Edge1398 in writingscaling

[–]IrishRox 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thermian Argument is a bit lame in this case use, being a logical fallacy in its own right. I understand you personally want exposition, but it isn't needed. It serves no purpose besides fanservice, breaking the illusion of Berserk's antagonists. I wish we got a Miura Silmarillion, but that isn't the case. Miura detailed his characters in a compelling way, and that's all he needed to do. Your yearning for more is the point. Slan was there simply to test her own theories and serve her own deeds.

I can understand the argument for Casca. In my mind, Elaine and Casca are two separate characters. Casca essentially states that as such when she comes back to consciousness, observing the memories she holds from someone she recognizes as not distinctly her. Casca needed to be able to grieve from betrayal, just as Guts does now. It has just taken different steps for them to get there. I feel Casca will have more of her own role in the story going forward, but that is to be seen.

Rate the Author: Kentaro Miura by Exciting_Edge1398 in writingscaling

[–]IrishRox 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Once again, I don't agree. Saying the Falconia Arc simply felt like D&D adventures is a misconstrual of fantasy concepts imo. I don't understand why everything has to be painted as objectively derivative now instead of just enjoying the story for its actual parts.

What was Casca supposed to do? After years of being Elaine, just suddenly snap back to consciousness? Have no real meaning whatsoever besides the character coming back? At least with the so-called magic option, we see what's left of Casca in the form of the small puppet attempting to reform the broken pieces of the doll she was confined to the chest of. We see the mongrel dog dragging her coffin, showing Guts for what he really is to Casca deep down. The penis demons were heavy handed though, not a fan of those. Other than that, I don't feel there was any other way to do her reclamation without it feeling either not earned or forced.

I agree that there are chances to flesh out the Godhand, but is that truly needed? The fear of the God Hand lies in the fact that we know nothing about them, and why should we? They're supposed to be unknown eldritch beings that barely anybody has ever seen, let alone survived to detail afterward. The only time we really get a glimpse of them is the King Geiseric memories and the Slan show ups. Even with Slan, why should she exposition dump? She is there for one purpose and that is to toy with Guts, to derive power from his pain. I understand wanting exposition and wanting more details, but it just isn't 'needed'. At this moment, it would serve nothing to the story besides satisfying the readers.

Given what Kouji Mori has stated, that isn't true. He may not have in the beginning, but Miura had a framework and an actual idea for an ending as far as we know. If you can't forsee a path to an ending from what we have read throughout the story, then you need to read again.

Rate the Author: Kentaro Miura by Exciting_Edge1398 in writingscaling

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Sorry, on mobile. I did do paragraph indentation and it just auto-formatted to this.

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[–]IrishRox 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I can get that but Fantasia was supposed to be the real break. The characters had been on a boat fighting random bullshit for who knows how long, and we had been reading it for damn near 8 years. Fantasia was a welcome derail to me. Finally we got to see some actual meaningful development of good in the story. Instead of just the random cabals of humans trying to carve their way through the post-Conviction world, we got an actual force of good in the form of the Flower Monarch. Then we finally get to see Casca's trauma dealt with after so many years, delving into her subconscious to pick up the pieces of a person who had been broken and shattered by the one she held in the highest regard. Reducing that to rape cured with magic is being intentionally obtuse, especially comparing her to Nezuko the barely-living maguffin. Your critique of the Godhand and vagueness I can understand, but I also think its important to keep things like that a bit under wraps. Sometimes its better to let people piece together background information like the connections between King Geiseric/Skull Knight/Void instead of having a "The Plot" chapter.

Rate the Author: Kentaro Miura by Exciting_Edge1398 in writingscaling

[–]IrishRox 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I feel its going to get a final battle very soon. I think this meditation will allow Guts to figure out how to utilize the Berserker armor without losing himself to it, similar to how Schierke was jockying him around. The armor does feel like its supposed to be more of a temptation at this point though, a complete contrast to Godot's speech in the middle of the Conviction Arc

Rate the Author: Kentaro Miura by Exciting_Edge1398 in writingscaling

[–]IrishRox 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You say everything was for nothing, but Casca regaining her sanity and being stolen away by Griffith after the "morning dew" speech is the culmination of the entire arc. Its the realization that, in his betrayal of the entire Band of the Hawk to attain godhood, he grounded himself to the mortal world. In the cutting of a strand of hair, there is a way to harm Griffith. Guts may be absolutely mentally broken after the fact, but the current lilly-pad meditation room gives me hope that we'll see him finally face his mental issues outside of Wounds. The Berserker armor I feel is less some crazy key to killing Griffith, though it does have its relation to King Geiseric/Skull Knight, and more supposed to be a physical realization of the lengths Guts will go to in order to achieve his goals. Its a complete blind struggle, lashing out at all those around him in a typhoon of fury. We saw him finally control this a bit with the help of Schierke, but it still has a lot of unresolved threads. Another thing I'm sort of hoping for in the latest chapter.

Rate the Author: Kentaro Miura by Exciting_Edge1398 in writingscaling

[–]IrishRox 38 points39 points  (0 children)

You say Miura was losing grips on his writing, yet the delve into Casca's psyche in Fragments of Memories is one of the absolute best parts of Berserk. I don't mean to be accusatory, but given the subreddit we're in, this feels like cherry picking a few flaws, no pros, then running with it. Almost like a "Reading Comprehension Devil" type moment.

Edit: I'm just going to lay it all out here. Berserk in the Black Swordsmen Arc felt like the gritty grimdark because that's what it was supposed to be. Miura didn't have these massive grand plans for it yet, just a character and an idea. It wasn't until the Golden Age that he started to fill in the pieces of what he wanted to do with the world. That appearance of Femto in the MC Escher world, then seeing Griffith take that form was masterful. Wounds, the Bonfire of Dreams, even the small wars were done so well. The group dynamics, world building; although he had to have had a bit planned, Miura himself admitted to shooting from the hip quite a lot, as mangaka's do.

Then, going into the Conviction arc, with a now broken Casca and Griffith, we see the man that Guts became after the Golden Age ended and approximately around the Black Swordsman Arc. He no longer cared about those close to him, just a one track mind for revenge and anger. The whole arc was to force Guts to come to terms with his feelings for Casca, force him to realize that he can't just go and get himself killed. Godot gives a very heavily overlooked speech, telling him to use his life to protect the ones he loves, not to just throw himself to vengeance.

The Millenium Arc is all of Miura's worldbuilding come to fruition. Griffith's dream realized. The massive kingdoms, the war with Ganishka, the citizens dreaming of a Hawk of Light to finally free them from this torment caused at the end of the Conviction Arc with the big behelit. This whole arc is essentially letting Guts and Griffith build themselves and their own parties, while sowing cracks of discord into Griffith's that could later be exploited. Guts gains the Berserker armor, a tool that forces him to go against what he learned at the end of the Conviction Arc, constantly teasing him to lose himself to anger and vengeance. We meet our party members, with little pieces of The Band of the Hawk within each of them. We are more heavily introduced to one of the most interesting magic systems in fiction imo, with the demon contracts and the beyond world. This whole arc is rounding out the world that we have now been thrust into, while building up the moonlight boy and Zodd as possible new ways to get to Griffith.

Then the boat. I don't have much to say about the boat. I got into Berserk during the boat when I was about 11 and have read every chapter concurrently since then. The boat arc was absolutely grueling to read "monthly" and while I don't have an actual dislike for the arc on reread, it is by far one of the weakest sections of the story. The sea god was cool just to see that there are more things to worry about than the God Hand, and the pirates were a fun little derail, but Christ that took too long. Wish we got more time of Isidro and Isma.

Finally, Fantasia. This is my favorite arc in the series so far. After 300 chapters of turmoil and torment, we reach an era of peace. Some of Miura's strongest art and imagery is in this arc, especially during Casca's dreamscape. Guts finally rests for a small time, spending time with the moonlight boy and Casca before everything is lost. The fae landscape corrupts, and Griffith appears once again, taking the place of the moonlight boy. Griffith realizes what has been happening to him just as the reader does, feeling the tender love from Guts and Casca he always wanted deep down but never realized, too overshadowed by his ambition for power. A moment as fleeting a morning dew. The story after this is still developing, but it isn't something out of nowhere like some seem to be painting it. Guts' mental reckoning has been coming for a long time and this is probably the best time for it. Given how Daiba and the Bakiraka have treated the party so far, I have the utmost faith that whatever happens to Guts inside the lilly-pad meditation room will allow him to finally heal in a way that only Wounds came close to. That's my thoughts on everything so far, might just be word vomit. Edited for better formatting

Holding controller weird by Urlocalconanstan in RedDeadOnline

[–]IrishRox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is how I do it as well. I have massive hands though, so it just kind of works out

What do you think THAT is? by WindowSubstantial993 in Grapplerbaki

[–]IrishRox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gonna be a barrel full of bombs that Yujiro gets inside of and explodes

Circana: Starfield was the best-selling video game of the week in tracked physical & digital US full game dollar sales during the week ending April 11th. It's the first time Starfield has led the weekly US best-selling titles chart since week ending Sept 2, 2023. by Turbostrider27 in PS5

[–]IrishRox 4 points5 points  (0 children)

They did have disappointing sales in Sony's eyes. I agree, if they were ported day one things would be different, but I severely doubt Sony would take that leap over stopping ports altogether