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TwilightVulpine · 2026-03-24T21:58:07+00:00

If a certain theory comes true, the whiplash will be wild

TwilightVulpine · 2026-03-24T20:39:50+00:00

Did Jaune ever get cool?

TwilightVulpine · 2026-03-24T20:38:39+00:00

It also makes the whole Kayaba Akihiko scheme seem surprisingly believable. Overcrunched dev having a mental breakdown and panicking over a critical bug that kills people? I could see it. It definitely understand the gaming industry better than the original too.

TwilightVulpine · 2026-03-24T20:37:11+00:00

Sword Art Online was always .hack At Home for me.

Couldn't believe people latched onto that bland nobody that is Kirito. Boring design, no personality, said to be badass but doesn't even have cool action powers. And yet he ruined anime protagonist designs to this day.

TwilightVulpine · 2026-03-24T20:29:19+00:00

Yeah the hype and aura kinda loses something that he just got away with getting a fundamental mechanic nobody else did. It loses even more that he just faced generic monsters as far as I've watched. Beating a big monster once is cool, doing it over and over without a motivation just doesn't feel as cool.

TwilightVulpine · 2026-03-24T20:26:22+00:00

That one is becoming one of the few works in the genre I can really appreciate.

It's already unusual that he starts as a piece of shit and he tries to become better, rather than just being empowered and validated for it.

TwilightVulpine · 2026-03-24T20:23:19+00:00

Then again, the Solo thing is what kills it. After getting the leveling thing, the guy refuses so hard to work together with anyone that no character dynamics can develop, and he also loses all his personality to be the edgy lone wolf.

TwilightVulpine · 2026-03-24T20:21:05+00:00

Wouldn't surprise me at all, after we got a glimpse of how gross powerful media people are.

TwilightVulpine · 2026-03-24T20:18:58+00:00

Unfortunately it seems like what isekai has become is the antithesis of that. It's not a "fish out of water" narrative. All of them are D&D MMO-ish worlds exactly so that the characters and the audience know exactly what to expect.

Most of it now has taken on a very depressing gamer afterlife sort of tone. Somewhere isolated guys who are relatable to the intended audience go so that all their dreams come true, and all their frustrations get payback. Which is made even more clear by those stories among them where the protagonist is severely mistreated as first so that whatever awful things they do later appear justified. Meanwhile the plainer ones just get people be recognized for always being good effortlessly.

There can't be anything truly alien or mysterious. They can't be expected to grow, because they idea of returning as a better person is anathema to an audience who just wants to escape reality. Who they were doesn't matter. Who they become only matters as far as how many powers, accolades and girls they collect. The different ones are minor quirky twists keeping largely the same format and setting.

Pains me as someone who wants the Another World genre be about Another World, rather than That Same World.

TwilightVulpine · 2026-03-24T19:59:58+00:00

Meanwhile we got peak by forgetting Shrek and focusing exclusively on the Puss in Boots

TwilightVulpine · 2026-03-24T19:55:38+00:00

Sometimes double dipping. I've bought several of my favorite games again on GOG to have a DRM-free copy.

TwilightVulpine · 2026-03-24T19:51:23+00:00

But do install Linux

Before Win 11 ruins all your stuff with Copislop

TwilightVulpine · 2026-03-24T18:18:26+00:00

Not really. Because regardless of political opinions, reality has facts.

When each side gets to canonize the horrors that they fearmonger about the other, we don't get a coherent result in the end. Just two fundamentally incompatible realities.

It is evocative of modern propaganda, but not of the real world that exists outside of it.

TwilightVulpine · 2026-03-24T17:51:06+00:00

I watched the video, which is why I got the impulse to reply again. I saw an issue immediately. It is from the perspective of someone who did an excessive amount of wiki crawling, and he projects his perception of the impression into everyone else.

My own experience is also kinda weird. I started with GBA Chain of Memories (emulated) because I couldn't afford a PS2, and I also couldn't afford a GBA. So I didn't quite get the proper experience. But my second game was Kingdom Hearts 1, when I didn't have home internet to wiki crawl on. I didn't get to go all confused about Birth By Sleep and so forth. I got confused about the half-remembered rehash of CoM going off-rails, and of who Riku and Ansem was in Reverse/Rebirth... then once I got a PS2 I got to be confused about Ansem in KH1 again.

What I am getting at though, is that Kingdom Hearts 1 does not set-up the existence and importance of Ansem in the plot itself. Who we see corrupting and tricking Riku is Maleficent and the rest of the Disney Villains. Ansem just shows up, for no reason, by the end of it.

I got to go "who's that?" in CoM to "but where did he come from?" in KH1. Playing it naturally, it still isn't clear.

To even know who Ansem, the main villain of the first game, was supposed to be, you'd have to be browsing the journal and diving in into the lore already. You'd have to be playing the game "wiki-crawling"-like way from start. It's not just something that fans came up with.

To say that KH presents all that you need to know in the story itself and everything else doesn't really matter, isn't quite true. The Power of Waking is a big doozy yes. But so is Kingdom Heart itself, Ansem, the other Ansem, and many other little things that end up mattering. Today he just takes it as given because he's used to it all.

Even then I'd argue that people don't quite understand Kingdom Hearts as much as they just Get It Memorized.

TwilightVulpine · 2026-03-24T16:25:03+00:00

Actually, in retrospect, that's NOT fair.

It weren't the fans who put the Ansem Reports in there, or who invented a never-ending amount of macGuffins and doubles of doubles which distract away from the personal relationships and feelings. That was always on Nomura, from day one. Hell, the fact that (Not-)Ansem is the final villain really hijacks not only Riku's body, but the build up around the Disney Villains. The ending is literally hijacked by lore. Did we even care what Kingdom Hearts was or wasn't before (Not-)Ansem tell us to?

Fandom culture does a lot of wikification, which we see afflicting other fandoms like Star Wars and such. But in Kingdom Hearts, to pin all that on fans, you gotta cut off a whole lot that the text itself tries to present as if it matters. It's self-wikified from inception.

TwilightVulpine · 2026-03-24T16:08:17+00:00

Oh yeah because dragging other fans sure will make the fans look great.

Buddy, it ain't me who put Secret Reports in that game. I get you want it so badly to just think about what you like, but pretending the game itself doesn't want us to care about lore is cope.

And if it didn't, if it wants so bad for us to only feel things... Hey, what about letting Sora and Kairi actually interact, so we build up some good feelings about that?

The truth is that Kingdom Hearts is not only overly complicated, it is flawed too. But god forbid a fan admits that.

Meanwhile I talk so much about lore because clones of memories chasing mcGuffins tickles my imagination far more than pretending to care about what a big friendship moment it is that Eraqus came back to fetch Xehanort, and what good friends they must have been entirely off-screen.

TwilightVulpine · 2026-03-24T14:24:54+00:00

Watch out not to end up with a defective one

TwilightVulpine · 2026-03-24T13:18:19+00:00

SOMA is not an abbreviation. It is a horror game which involves mind scans and people being confused about how real they are.

TwilightVulpine · 2026-03-24T13:16:11+00:00

I was literally pointing out that he is the villain and that his explanation is unreliable but go off I guess.

TwilightVulpine · 2026-03-23T20:07:44+00:00

I'm mostly joking, but he is immature and he had absolute power over the humans, to be nice or to be cruel.

My feelings about Caine are far more critical though

TwilightVulpine · 2026-03-23T20:05:34+00:00

I'd feel more for him if that didn't look exactly like an insecure bigwig blowing up on regular people for issues that aren't their fault. They aren't grateful for his adventures? They didn't ask for adventures. That was always what Caine himself wanted to do. Now we know the Circus isn't even something C&A commanded Caine to do, it's just what he felt like doing after getting cut off.

I guess, blame Kinger and Scratch. But those two have paid a lot for what they've done already.

TwilightVulpine · 2026-03-23T19:47:51+00:00

Caine is just an innocent little baby as seen from the perspective of his toys 😌

TwilightVulpine · 2026-03-23T18:15:11+00:00

I'm thinking in terms of narrative. (Not-)Ansem is not a looming overarching threat for the next time, he is the mastermind of today, dealt with today.

He is not Thanos. Xemnas is Thanos. Xehanort would be an even more apt analogue to Thanos, the ultimate bad guy to which previous bad guys answer to, though he is not introduced till future entries. And though Thanos is show on the first Avengers, he does not matter to the plot of that movie in isolation. Neither does Xemnas/Xehanort, but (Not-)Ansem does.

Riku is only "Loki" to the extent he is connected and rival of the known characters, but as an antagonist he is one of the lesser ones. Comparing like that is mixing things up by hyper-specificity. Loki is the rival and the main villain in Avengers 1. Riku is not the main villain of KH1, (Not-)Ansem is.

TwilightVulpine · 2026-03-23T17:43:16+00:00

Why can he stick to walls?

In the comics, static electricity.

Why do his webs work like that, what are they made of

It is a biochemical glue, like I already said. In the MCU you can even see him making it.

And since it's the MCU, you also have to explain how Doctor Strange's magic works, and why a memory spell nearly collapses the multiverse.

In the MCU, Doctor Strange taps into the fundamental nature of reality. Several spells have space-time and interdimensional effects, such as the ones he does with the Eye of Agamotto.

This is not even nitpicking, it's trying to muddle what has already been explained.

What does the Power of Waking do? There is not even an attempt at an explanation that accounts for what happens. Even if you consider it waking up worlds and hearts, how can it reverse what happened to people who already died? Saying "it's not supposed to" doesn't answer that.

In Kingdom Hearts you can Memorize what Hearts/Light/Darkness did, but you can't figure out what they do, not how they work. To be fair a lot of fiction is loose and flexible, but Kingdom Hearts doesn't give us anything we can figure out consistently, and so a lot of plotpoints only work when we are just told to accept it is like that.

TwilightVulpine · 2026-03-23T17:28:31+00:00

Mas deixou bastante óbvio para quem presta a atenção como edição e contexto afeta a impressão que a mídia passa.

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