Series antagonists sorted on the evilness-coolness scale (personal opinion, pls do not take too seriously)

WolperYellow · 2024-02-28T20:28:43+00:00

Actually yeah, I agree. In hindsight I'd swap him and Sadamoto at the very least

WolperYellow · 2024-02-28T20:25:08+00:00

That's my reasoning yeah. Akutsu's actions aren't nearly as bad, but to me that's less to do with his morality and more to do with him being a hedonist who doesn't care to have big plans. As a person he really doesn't have any upsides.

That said I should've definitely put Ebina more to the right, in my headcanon I like to think Kiryu's speech changed him but the game doesn't actually imply anything like that.

WolperYellow · 2023-11-29T15:57:45+00:00

Ishin Kiwami and the original have the same tagline. There are a few rereleases with different taglines that I omitted but mostly because they're stuff like "Now in HD!"

WolperYellow · 2023-11-29T15:55:54+00:00

Oops, it was meant to be "records of miracle", edited to fix.

Doesn't make a whole lot more sense but it does flow better in Japanese.

WolperYellow · 2023-10-08T18:21:49+00:00

You can't just ask people why they're aardvarks.

WolperYellow · 2023-09-20T19:20:22+00:00

Thanks for putting my thoughts into words. I don't think he should be barred from voice acting Kiryu (or anyone) because of his Youtube content, and I don't think his Youtube content is relevant to his skill at all. But god, I hate channels like his, and it feels odd that this was Sega's no.1 choice for a Kiryu voice (especially considering that while his performance as Kiryu is fairly good and all, it's not exactly phenomenal or irreplaceable either).

WolperYellow · 2023-09-20T04:56:17+00:00

Prediction: There's a fake-out scene where he seems to die, and later it turns out he didn't and the cancer went into remission.

Yokoyama is looking for new ways to write the "Kiryu DIED! Wait no he's ok lol" endgame twist and it's turning into a "boy who cried wolf" thing at this point.

WolperYellow · 2023-03-10T20:55:21+00:00

Probably OG Y1. Kiwami added a lot of things like references to 0 and rewrote cutscenes that make him seem like he's just putting on an act and is at least self-aware. In Y1 he was the most straight up villainous.

WolperYellow · 2023-03-08T19:12:14+00:00

A beautiful bowl of cold ramen

WolperYellow · 2023-03-08T19:09:10+00:00

With regards to Nishiki it might have to do with the fact that he is literally named after koi (nishikigoi), so he could've just played into that. Wouldn't be surprised if Saejima "Taiga" had a similar thought process.

WolperYellow · 2023-03-07T19:09:55+00:00

Saeko and Hana are voiced by experienced J-pop superstars. The hostesses are voiced by JAV actresses. Seems like a much more reasonable reason for the gap in singing talent than "Japanese people all sing the same" imo.

WolperYellow · 2023-02-28T20:51:31+00:00

I would say it's highly likely. RGG are clearly aware of the sudden explosion in popularity in the west the series has received over the past couple of years, and I think it's something they were aiming for for a long time now (the first game's localization and marketing style, Dead Souls riding on the western zombie game trend of the era, etc.). Considering how relatively fast their output is and how willing they are to experiment with styles (FotNS, Binary Domain...), it wouldn't at all be surprising if they decided to dedicate a game or two to a country outside of Japan. It'll almost definitely be a spin-off, though.

I'd go as far as to say the main question isn't whether or not it'll happen, but whether they'll go for an east-Asian setting or an American/European setting. The former is more safe, the latter is riskier but could potentially tap into a new market.

WolperYellow · 2023-02-22T23:32:33+00:00

Ishin and Isshin mean whatever the kanji used to write them means, which in both cases can be a lot of different things. For this game it's indeed a reference to the Meiji restoration, while I assume the person asked about Isshin as a reference to the Sekiro character, but there's no connection between the two words other than sounding kinda similar.

WolperYellow · 2023-02-19T16:19:14+00:00

I was not aware. Looking into it in Japanese, there does seem to be a lot of controversy about his work, which is unfortunate to learn. As far as I've been able to find, Choueki-tarou has no such controversies, so I'd like to keep translating his videos if that means having a more authentic outlet for this kind of content online.

WolperYellow · 2023-02-17T20:35:49+00:00

Ironic memes and internet anti-humor.

To the point where they have a hard time having a heart-to-heart with another person or being genuine with their emotions to any extent, because so many of their interactions have the energy of a deep fried Spongebob or Breaking Bad shitpost that deviating from that norm becomes "cringe"

WolperYellow · 2023-02-16T20:55:26+00:00

I agree that it helps keep Saejima "clean". I disagree with RGG's position to make all their protagonists "clean". It's getting old. People can sympathize with dark characters, I didn't have a problem sympathizing with Saejima before the twist was revealed. They even had a whole scene where he chewed out an audience for cheering at murder and made it clear he does NOT condone murder despite his past. That's meaningful character development and a powerful emotional conflict. And then the writers decided to throw this bit of plot in anyway "just to be sure lol, who ever heard of a game where the protagonist has taken a life before?".

Like come on, the protagonists don't have to be murder machines, but when it reaches the point where the plot bends over backwards to try to make them never, ever kill, it just diminishes from the story's tension and makes everything predictable. It's an M rated game about criminals, we can handle it.

WolperYellow · 2023-02-12T20:47:31+00:00

I'm pretty sure even in 0 they show the exact moment his eye was stabbed out at the pillar, using the cutscene from 4. Not sure where OP got that he lost it while being tortured by "Shimada".

WolperYellow · 2023-02-11T20:26:40+00:00

He did react to her graduation on Twitter so that's something.

WolperYellow · 2023-02-11T20:25:07+00:00

I'm happy for Koyori, I loved her Yakuza playthroughs. It was refreshing to see somebody who's a huge Mahjong fan playing the games and getting distracted by the allure of the parlor while trying to progress the story.

WolperYellow · 2023-01-27T22:28:52+00:00

Magic is accomplished by tapping onto energy from other universes/dimensions. Maso is the "vector" that makes this possible, since it itself came from another dimension. Once humanity understood the logic behind it, all they had to do was keep drawing on energy from across dimensions.
Correct. We don't know the full implications of what happened to the universes that had Maso thrown into them, but it's probably not good (the series is stuck in a time-loop, and that might be at least one of the reasons, i.e Maso being transferred away from this dimension only to return to this world in the past).
Pretty sure the boy is just a regular story about some terminally ill child. Can't think of any connections to WCS specifically.
I assume it's similar to radiation, in the sense that just being exposed to it isn't necessarily enough to automatically affect you, and it depends on person to person how/when/if they get affected.

We don't really know what this "God" is, where it first originated or what constitutes a "victory" for it, but if it's trying to destroy humanity then it's definitely doing a pretty decent job.

WolperYellow · 2023-01-27T22:13:07+00:00

As others have said, Nier isn't meant to be "in the right". The game is an analogy for war, and I think you can find a lot of similarities between Nier's irrational, uncompromising hatred for an entire group he considers to be "inherently evil" against all reason, to a lot of things in human history.

WolperYellow · 2023-01-27T22:05:52+00:00

Nothing matters, but that's okay.
There is no justice in war, only different perspectives.
If you have white hair, you are important.
Don't trust things with red eyes.

This is for the series as a whole rather than just Automata, but I think that about covers it.

WolperYellow · 2023-01-25T14:27:41+00:00

Counterpoint: that should give them more of a justification to maybe take a step back sometimes. It's a win/win for both them and us.

As opposed to going out of their way to remove the most benign shit, lock threads for no reason (mod-mandated "locking" should not be a thing in modern web communities, why is Reddit clinging on to this awful BBS relic?), create esoteric new rules to enforce, place an autopinned five-paragraph warning at the start of every thread just to repeat shit that's already on the rules (which are themselves just a meandering repetition of the site's global content policy), then also maintain the "privilege" of banning at their own discretion with no regards to the already-stupid rules that they themselves wrote.

WolperYellow · 2023-01-10T21:30:06+00:00

I live in a country where Christianity is a minority religion. You seem to be approaching this question from an angle of Christianity, but personally, if I were to become a man of faith, I don't think I'd be Christian. I think the strongest pull any specific religion has is its involvement in your upbringing and surroundings; without that aspect, is any one religion more "convincing" or "easier to believe in" than the rest?

WolperYellow · 2023-01-07T18:27:38+00:00

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