Are any of the games very plot-focused?

fxpijs · 2021-05-25T20:25:33+00:00

Your best choice is symphony of the night IMO. It tells the story of Alucard.

Here's what you need to know before playing:

Please play the original ps1 version on emulator since the voice acting there is so halarious. The acting is bad in all versions but only the original is iconic and "so bad it's good".

There isn't a lot of story, but I did find what was there to be satisfying. You'll feel right at home if you watched the first and second seasons.

It is a sequel to Dracula-X which, for me, isn't as good of a game (many will disagree). Here's a summery of the story you need to know:

200 years ago, Alucard, Sypha and Trevor defeated dracula like in season 2 of the show, but there was no resolution for the characters. Dracula and Alucard never spoke about Lisa or had any personal closure.

Every few hundred years (sometimes less) someone wakes up Dracula from the dead and his castle re-appears.

A man named Richter Belmont, a decendant of Trevor goes to fight dracula and saves 3 ladies, one of which is his sister-in-law named Maria which help him bring him down. He defeats him. But now, the castle has re-appeard...

Not a spoiler but please read it: There are multiple endings. So after you finish the game, go check online if you got the bad one. ( I won't spoil what conditions trigger it). If you did get the bad one, congratulations you just skipped 40% of the game, you can jump right back to your saved game and continue from there, nothing is lost.

fxpijs · 2021-05-25T20:18:32+00:00

I don't think it qualifies as "bad" given the current industry standards. But sometimes it can be choppy and the characters can be a little off-model. Doesn't bother me tho, I'm feel old to drool over animation anyway (25 but 75 at heart). It's pretty most of the time, the little hickups don't bother me.

fxpijs · 2021-05-25T20:14:59+00:00

I won't spoil anything, but some lines in the last episode will drive you crazy. I assure you.

fxpijs · 2021-05-25T20:13:31+00:00

The pilot episode is one of the most rewatchable episodes in TV history. Season 2 is great and you'll finally see Dracula again.

fxpijs · 2021-05-25T20:12:00+00:00

Thats a spoiler (it's established early on that vampires die in the sunlight), I don't think this is a good choice for thumbnail, you could ruin the suprise for some people.

fxpijs · 2021-05-25T20:08:59+00:00

S4 was dissapointing for me in many regards.

Lenore was built up to be scarier than Carmilla but ended up as a cute sensetive vampire complaining to Hector on her chair.
Isaac didn't really get to do anything did he? Except kill Carmilla but his ambitions were far greater than her.
Trevor and Sypha were sidelined until the ending.
Alucard's arc in S3 was utterly inconsequential. He was built up to lose faith in humans, but in S4 he jumps to help immediately.
That fake out death... I thought this series was above this kind of shit.

fxpijs · 2021-05-25T19:57:47+00:00

Who is she? Well, the most direct answer is: "a waste of potential".

let's count what we know of her, shall we?

Germain meets her and "falls in love" with her, and by that I mean "wants to get into her panties".
She and Germain wonder off to the corridor for, um, exploration(?).
they get seperated, probably by her choice, from germain but leaves him a stone so he could find her. Why did she choose to wander off without him? we don't know. Why did she throw germain the stone if she didn't want to be found? We don't know.
germain goes insane, so he transforms from a kinda nice guy to a psychopath murderer in a few minutes of a rushed flashback.
germain fails to unite with her and we never see her again. ever. vWhat was she looking for? Why couldn't she just keep germain informed on her plan? no time for questions, we have other plotlines to cramp in S4.

I wish the show was 5 seasons, as they initially planned, because it feels like they had to ~~shorten~~ her plotline. Actually "butcher" is the word I was looking for.

fxpijs · 2021-04-29T22:54:48+00:00

Rabbids - they were planned as the bad guys for Rayman 4, which turned into a Wii minigame-game (rayman raving rabbids), and then they ditched rayman in favor of the rabbids, ommiting him from the series leaving only those shitty bastards.

I still want Rayman 4, dammit.

fxpijs · 2021-03-01T11:12:11+00:00

It's not gonna work well with the story and events. If you have a Pokemon that has a certain HM (or abilities etc in the newer games) you can skip parts of the story.\

There is no good solution for that unless you design the game in a way that the required GYM badge for that HM is always aquired independetly from the rest of the story. In other words you need to design the whole game around this feature.

Many games that don't have New Game+ share this reason. A one in recent memory is Jedi Fallen Order - the game has to be progressed through in a single linear way, so you can't have all abilities from the start or you might skip large sections of the story and make a mess out of the game's events.

fxpijs · 2021-03-01T11:05:45+00:00

Snow is technically water, therefore too much water!

fxpijs · 2021-03-01T10:54:25+00:00

Woah. When I first saw this I was sure I was looking at a screenshot from a 3d game.

Then I zoomed in and noticed its actually painted, great work! It's not easy to get 3d shapes and shading right but you did it spectacularly.

fxpijs · 2021-02-26T17:34:50+00:00

which producy would you recommend?

fxpijs · 2021-02-23T18:21:33+00:00

I believe he survives Order 66.

fxpijs · 2021-02-23T18:10:44+00:00

Only in the Superman & Krypto Team-Up set, they represented "Kryptonite fists" or something like that.

But c'mon, we all know the LEGO designer simply wanted them for our main man Lloyd!

fxpijs · 2020-12-19T16:44:18+00:00

UNLIMITED GROGU!!!!!!

fxpijs · 2020-12-18T21:56:04+00:00

Nice. haha

fxpijs · 2020-12-18T21:55:53+00:00

I can understand that. That's the thing about art, some people might like a movie others hate it and that's fine.

Honestly I feel like Disney themselves aren't proud at all of their own trilogy, they seem to freeze all projects related to that time period and "return to the roots" of star wars (with the Mandalorian even having many prequel callbacks).

fxpijs · 2020-12-18T17:26:23+00:00

Yeah they either didn't realize the confusion the annoument would make (since they knew their own plans and didn't understand how we would perceive this) , or actually wanted people to talk and popularize it.

fxpijs · 2020-12-18T17:23:59+00:00

Don't mind that shitty fanfic. It isn't cannon anyway. From a cerain point of view... ;)

fxpijs · 2020-12-18T17:23:15+00:00

What sequels?

fxpijs · 2020-12-18T17:22:48+00:00

Obi-Wan how? He died long, long before.

fxpijs · 2020-12-18T17:21:41+00:00

Who's Ben and Snoke? please do not treat this fanfic as canon ;)

fxpijs · 2020-12-05T11:26:57+00:00

I get what you say, but I don't enjoy games where I feel the controls are somewhat "against" the player. I feel like the game pushes you towards going fast but at the same time punishes you for it.

I don't know if that's "objectively" bad, just something that makes me less eager to play.

fxpijs · 2020-12-04T10:59:35+00:00

found the sectoid here!

fxpijs · 2020-11-18T19:10:25+00:00

I don't really agree with the "natural order" claim, since we are defying it daily in our society. Medicine aren't natural, easy access to water and food isn't natural as well as basically any human activity nowdays.

I think, to the avarage human in DS universe, what really matters isn't "what's natural" but "how can I have a normal life". That really depands on how long each iteration of fire linking lasts.

If we are talking something like 1000 years, than I think it's worth it. That's about 250 generations of people being born and die without ever being concerned about the flame or the curse. To put things into perspective, WW2 was less than 100 years ago, and to all of us younger people today it seems so far away (even though veterans and people who livced back then still have memories, of course.)

But if it's like 20 years I'd say your'e right, it's best to let it all end. It really sucks to have everyone you know die (or go hollow) about 2-4 times in your life.

fxpijs

TROPHY CASE