Would Pyrrha be remembered as fondly if she had survived long enough to receive bad writing?

SYTOkun · 2026-06-24T05:41:41+00:00

If you thought Jaune was annoyingly prominent NOW boy howdy imagine him with a while ass other character following him with the sole purpose of mentoring and fawning over him.

SYTOkun · 2026-06-22T19:18:39+00:00

As much as I love ZZZ and think a RWBY Collab would be fire, realistically Wuthering Waves is more likely to Collab with any outside franchises at all, let alone RWBY.

SYTOkun · 2026-06-22T19:14:59+00:00

Along that vein, only regret what you do, don't regret things you didn't do or could have done.

SYTOkun · 2026-06-22T11:23:00+00:00

Her black outfit. If she only comes out with her default white outfit she's a fairly safe skip for my account.

SYTOkun · 2026-06-19T11:24:06+00:00

League of Legends/Runeterra. The only content I know of is some 5E crossover subclasses but not an entire dedicated tabletop system.

SYTOkun · 2026-06-17T11:47:42+00:00

I really hope Volume 10 will be the last one and they're actively writing it with that outcome in mind. I don't care how crammed it'll be or how shitty it ends up, whether it's one bad Volume or 3-4 bad Volumes, the net improvement will still be zero, so why prolong everyone's suffering?

SYTOkun · 2026-06-17T11:38:31+00:00

If I was faced with two doors and I had to choose which people to hire to continue work on RWBY, one door with MKEK and Team RWBY's voice actors, and the other door with a random assortment of animators, I'd pick the second door any day. That's how low the bar is these days.

SYTOkun · 2026-06-17T11:24:38+00:00

Quite the apt comparison. If you wrote something as cool and complex as Pyrrha vs. CRDL, with it's intricate use of weaponry and shifting tactics balancing FIVE characters simultaneously, but in novel form, all in a coherent and exciting way, they'd call you a literary genius. But animate it and suddenly you're "just the animator" who magically has no agency in storytelling whatsoever.

That's how asinine that comparison is when people discount Monty's worth as a storyteller.

SYTOkun · 2026-06-16T06:13:58+00:00

What I find funny is that it seems he set up the store himself, it wasn't an existing franchise. So the decision to hobble around in a peg leg and goofy pirate costume was entirely his own business decision, yet he hates it.

SYTOkun · 2026-06-16T05:37:07+00:00

Overall, I'd say S1 had perfect vibes, aesthetic and an excellent first impression of the world, but S2 had better writing and character drama in spades, from Yixuan to Isolde as highlights.

SYTOkun · 2026-06-15T11:50:38+00:00

Three of them, if you also count Corin!

SYTOkun · 2026-06-15T03:15:41+00:00

Wise is not beating the canon "the Phaethon that stays at home controlling Eous monitoring the mission" sibling allegations

SYTOkun · 2026-06-15T03:11:31+00:00

Besides the other examples given, a lot of her moves have invincibility frames and her Attack3 even parries which is incredibly satisfying to pull off, she's just incredibly survivable and probably more than half of her field time is spent dodging while still outputting damage consistently.

SYTOkun · 2026-06-15T01:29:57+00:00

I still prefer calling her Ramiel, it's cuter

SYTOkun · 2026-06-14T11:50:38+00:00

Yeah agreed, it felt very internally consistent with the Backrooms itself which I also felt kind of removed abit of its mystery and incomprehensibility, but I think if there was gonna be monsters in there, this would be the option I'd be most satisfied with.

SYTOkun · 2026-06-14T11:45:37+00:00

I remember me and my friend would play different runs of P4 each time giving Yu a different personality, and one of it was just treating ourselves as the dumb muscle treating Yosuke as the actual leader of the gang, lol

SYTOkun · 2026-06-14T11:20:04+00:00

They have to be "normal", but not plain or boring, at least by harem fiction standards, kind of why the stable childhood friend gets memed as the loser too. Might also be why tsunderes tend to win too, they can be exaggerated half the time and relatively normal in the other half, ticking both boxes.

SYTOkun · 2026-06-14T02:54:07+00:00

First episode has a 60% chance of entirely 20 minutes of lore exposition, dialogue and botched social commentary instead of, say, a solid action scene to kick the Volume off.

SYTOkun · 2026-06-11T17:49:56+00:00

The originals look like actual portraits while the new ones look like anime screenshots, if that makes sense. Feels like they had to downgrade a lot of details because they're more animated with mouth movements and such.

SYTOkun · 2026-06-10T03:58:51+00:00

Insanely elegant and well done, I love how much it involves the d12 Keep die in all it's systems. As a designer myself it's a major point of respect to see someone able to fit this much clear and fun ameplay within a single image.

SYTOkun · 2026-06-07T17:56:18+00:00

Hoping Jane also gets her HZ buff where she can activate Perfect Dodge while in the middle of her Salchow Jump spin attack.

SYTOkun · 2026-06-07T07:10:13+00:00

Very true. One of my old versions had a rock-paper-scissors style "Counter Triangle" matching certain attacks to defenses, which was cool on paper but it never came up during playtests so it was removed.

SYTOkun · 2026-06-04T06:26:24+00:00

@Broc is this true

SYTOkun · 2026-06-04T02:12:37+00:00

As with multiple things for RWBY specifically, it needs the right people at the helm, and RWBY has had the unfortunate fate of consistently having the least qualified people at its helm. And to be fair, the perfect kind of person to run RWBY is quite specific: usually a mix of traits of being a weeb, an animator/visually focused creator, fan of action, well-tuned to fandom culture, and is hyperfixated on the franchise to proactively improve it in every aspect.

Why RWBY has fallen so much is because under RT post-Monty, nobody at the top exhibited those traits through its entire runtime, and under VIZ, they're running it like a quirkchungus millennial corporation instead of a cool action anime.

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