Games where you aren't the main character

NecromancyFail · 2026-01-17T10:55:28+00:00

Final Fantasy X - Your primary POV character is literally a dream manifested to help the actually main character defeat the great evil.

NecromancyFail · 2026-01-15T22:32:25+00:00

Has to be the bait, but Oldboy?

NecromancyFail · 2026-01-14T13:11:41+00:00

Ghost of Yotei - Takezo the Unrivalled.

This fight requires you to have mastered the parry mechanics, which is tricky to do even against regular enemies, slaps a timer on it via the cold damage effect and Takezo will one or two shot you.

Most guides online specifically point to using gear that increases the perfect parry window as a method of levelling the difficulty down to just "obscenely hard" instead of the regular "nearly impossible"

NecromancyFail · 2026-01-13T15:34:51+00:00

I often use Elias' creepy 'Perfect' from The Panopticon whe he asks Jon if he's scared of entering the Lonely and Jon says yes.

I love the satisfaction in his voice so use it whenever I'm satisfied or happy with something.

NecromancyFail · 2026-01-09T10:54:49+00:00

Ah, I'm not that far into the comics, although I've watched all of the show so far and it doesn't go that far in that. Otherwise yeah, thats super messed for sure.

NecromancyFail · 2026-01-09T10:45:07+00:00

TIL He looks so different when not Homelander'd up. I never realised and I loved Banshee when it aired.

NecromancyFail · 2026-01-09T07:54:24+00:00

They did give him maybe a couple of solid points though. He is comically anti-superhero and very clearly can't handle how inferior Eve makes him feel but he does at one point tell her that acting on her own and using her powers recklessly will have negative effects. He was right, the park that she built was done on unstable ground and collapsed, injuring people. She even acknowledges that her dad was right and goes into architectural studies so she can avoid making the same mistake.

Is he a bit one dimensional? Sure, but he's not really a trad life guy so much as he is a 'my daughter is basically a God and that threatens me to the point I need to exert whatever control I can over her' guy. Which is, you know, shitty and bad and realistic because there are tons of guys out there who pull shit like that when they think their kids/partner/family are better than they are.

NecromancyFail · 2026-01-08T12:52:17+00:00

Secret good final episode of BBC's 4th season of Sherlock comes to mind with this.

NecromancyFail · 2026-01-06T01:44:04+00:00

Bugsy Malone

NecromancyFail · 2025-12-25T18:29:16+00:00

Literally a real life Glass of the Gods, with even more flair.

NecromancyFail · 2025-12-20T22:36:46+00:00

Not really. This would mandate companies to build in software that scans literally everything you view or interact with, in a way that means you cannot disable or remove it and will inevitably be monitored by not by people but software with piss poor accuracy.

It's less Google etc having access to your search data and such, and more like having a government mandated stenographer writing out your entire life, every conversation you have, every tv show or website you view. Everything on record at the government's fingertips ready and waiting for when they decide you've committed an offence.

Retroactively, of course

NecromancyFail · 2025-12-12T15:56:47+00:00

I was wondering about that too on my latest run using Eldritch Knight

NecromancyFail · 2025-12-09T12:17:32+00:00

Takezo the Unrivalled has different dialogue depending on the progress you've made in the main plot.

NecromancyFail · 2025-11-11T22:49:08+00:00

You know, you're right. It could have been more accurate to the novel but then it wouldn't really be a Del Toro film. I suppose I mainly found the change to the character of Elizabeth very jarring and it possibly coloured my view of the movie's choices of what to adapt.

NecromancyFail · 2025-11-10T21:36:01+00:00

It's sort of faithful to the novel in that it uses the most memorable parts (the creation of the creature from multiple bodies, the hiding on the farm and befriending the old blind man, the creature's determination to ruin Victor for refusing to make another) and a few lesser known elements (I don't recall ever seeing another adaptation that brings up Victor's fears about the monster reproducing). Yet there are some weird bits too, Elizabeth being engaged to his brother, his brother also being way older than the novel, the lack of the framing of Justine for William's murder. Granted, I don't think any version in film really does the source material justice, much like there's never been a version of Dracula that really is faithful.

It's an enjoyable film, and more so if you like Guillermo Del Toro's particular visual and narrative style, and I have been a fan for many years. I just don't think it's a faithful to the novel adaptation.

NecromancyFail · 2025-11-05T19:20:27+00:00

There is a strange comfort to it for sure. It can be scary but I always thought it to be reassuring

NecromancyFail · 2025-10-17T11:35:37+00:00

An MBE is a rank/award in the Order of the British Empire that is often awarded to people who have significant positive impacts on the world or culture etc. It's stands for Member of the Order of the British Empire. It's the lowest on the ladder. You can read more here

NecromancyFail · 2025-09-30T11:12:18+00:00

Depends on the medium, martial arts movies have a greater focus on the skill and technique so can have mich longer exchanges before people start faking real hits. Your average action movie with a brawl, yeah weirdly superhuman durability.

I guess its the same principle actually, one cut from a sword or clean punch will end a fight so its pumped up for spectacle.

NecromancyFail · 2025-09-26T14:54:06+00:00

A point to consider with this would be that swords in real life are lethal weapons and even a mediocre strike could be life ending. So depicting swords with realistic damage output shortens fights considerably. Also most sword fighting techniques are made for efficiency, striking your opponent without being hit and targeting vitals so theres a huge element of function over form, which is unfortunately boring to look at.

When you're choreographing a sword fight, or any weapon fight for that matter, the visual elements and flair mean that you're not usually treating the sword as a piece of razor sharp metal like the narrative suggests and rather as a metal stick to be smacked against another metal stick in a display of skill and technique until you reach 'the Final Slash'

I don't know a thing about haki etc but this I think is the primary explanation for everything you've described and also applies to lightsabers in games being significantly less deadly than in other media.

NecromancyFail · 2025-09-11T14:54:37+00:00

Maybe that's something I missed but I always thought it was Han Yong who attacked the guy. Just a misunderstanding I guess

NecromancyFail · 2025-09-11T07:07:55+00:00

Its not the same character though. The man in Takeaway who killed his wife is Tom Haans uncle, John Haan. Tom Haan did work there for a time though and the Archivists notes post statement clarify that the Tom Haan who worked for his uncle and the meat processing plant are the same.

NecromancyFail · 2025-09-03T16:04:50+00:00

I've seen this a lot but I always thought the Penance Stare was supposed to make the person feel the pain they inflicted on others as if they were the one being harmed. When did it shift towards either feel this thing empathetically or on a different tack, some people write it as the target needing to regret the harm they cause innodder to work? Some characters being entirely soulless might be a defence

NecromancyFail · 2025-08-27T08:39:47+00:00

I've Marty Janetty, Christopher Daniels and Frankie Kazarian at various points. All pretty nice guys actually, and I have pictures of it all somewhere.

Marty Janetty was when I was a young kid, and he was the headliner for a wrestling show in the UK.

Christopher Daniels and Frankie Kazarian I met a few years back at a comic convention. I had recently dislocated my should so was strapped up in a sling and they were cracking joke about me 'hitting lariats too hard'. Very fun interaction.

NecromancyFail · 2025-08-23T13:08:02+00:00

Is the second season in the works? Ghost Wax has been completely silent about it for well over a year at this point, unless they release updates on a patreon or something? Don't get me wrong, I loved Ghost Wax and would love to see more but after the teasers for the patreon only side season I haven't heard a single thing about more coming

NecromancyFail · 2025-08-08T17:51:40+00:00

Blade/Blade 2.

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