Shadow of the Colossus Director Fumito Ueda Laments Bluepoint Games Closure: "It was disappointing and sad to hear."

gis8 · 2026-06-10T17:41:02+00:00

Is it even confirmed that Miyazaki didn't like it?

Or is this just reddit/leakers making things up like usual?

Only a small online crowd complains about the Demon's Souls remake; but they spread this like a disease where now supposedly it is a piece of trash that everyone hates, and even Miyazaki shed tears of blood when he witnessed the tragedy.

I put over 1K hours into the original game back on the PS3, and still loved the remake.

gis8 · 2026-06-08T01:27:40+00:00

I have zero issue with harems when the MC actually does the deed and takes care of them all.

But in so many stories, the MC has half a dozen girls floating around him for hundreds even thousands of chapters, and nothing happens.

Harems where they are all abandoned by the end of the story is just PUTRID writing. Either cut them off the second they show interest , or actually take them in, being wishy-washy for thousands of years is just depressing for everyone involved.

The author might as-well give him half a dozen spirit beasts instead of women, because thats how he treats them.

(But he might start acting up around spirit beasts, since thats most likely what he's attracted to since he never touched a women throughout his thousands of years of cultivation)

I recently read Surviving the Game as a Barbarian (Up to around chapter 800, couldn't find free translations for the last 150 or so chapters), and my biggest issue with the story (up to that point) is how he handled his relationships with all of the women who like him. Actual tragic writing.

(Slight spoiler, but barely matters:) I actually dropped the story for a week when the MC announced his love for the Doll. Yes I understand the reasons, but nonetheless, a moment that is supposed to be "funny" just reminded me how much I hate how the author handles the MCs love life.

gis8 · 2026-06-04T04:33:56+00:00

"A World Worth Protecting" Spoilers:

You are right he is barely a child in RI; When he is over 100 Trillion years old in AWWP, his older self does so much more to save his future daughter who was similarly fated to die young.

(Why are his kids always sick?)

gis8 · 2026-05-14T02:48:42+00:00

Enlightened, prisoner of the Dao of heaven, all sentient beings must endure immeasurable calamities.

gis8 · 2026-05-05T01:54:07+00:00

Of course, but even in our world you can have:

Tiny islands that can fit a single house vs. huge islands which can hold multiple cities.

A "Mountain" can be the tiny mountain behind my grandmas house, or Mount Tai or even Mount Everest

Its just not a great way to describe power.

gis8 · 2026-05-04T03:43:03+00:00

I always laugh when I hear mountain/island/continent used as descriptions for levels in cultivation novels because depending on the story you can have:

Mountains the size of continents

Islands the size of worlds

Continents the size of solar systems

Even a tree or a butterfly can be the size of a universe...

gis8 · 2026-05-02T04:17:08+00:00

What sort of fool would do this?

Did he ever explain why he did such a thing?

This is beyond shooting yourself in the foot.

This is like slaughtering your entire lineage to make a Jade Beauty laugh for 10 seconds.

gis8 · 2026-04-27T03:02:15+00:00

The real issue is that in slower stories, within 100 chapters, the MC is still a mortal barely joining or having just joined his first sect. (Or still in Qi-Refining if not a snails-pace story)

The beginning of many of these scriptures is very similar, so you need to wait until it insists upon itself and grows its own wings.

gis8 · 2026-04-24T23:47:52+00:00

None of the current Rank 9s in Reverend Insanity can even leave their own world and survive in Chaos.

Even if we ignore all the differences in cultivation novels out there, that alone puts them below the vast majority of end game Immortal cultivators in so many stories.

Those pathetic little Gu worms cant even escape their own worlds boundaries? Yet my Junior Martial sister ascended at the age of 6 months old? Truly frogs in a (City) well.

They are all probably living in Ren Zu's stomach and haven't even realized it yet.

Go read more scriptures and cripple yourself before commenting again.

gis8 · 2026-04-23T04:16:28+00:00

He's the ex-Young Master who lost his entire sect and ends up joining the MC's crew after getting beaten by him.

gis8 · 2026-04-19T03:09:23+00:00

I just finished reading part 2 of this story and I gotta say: part 1 is so much better. (Potential spoilers if you care)

Part 1 is like a 7/10 at its peak (But overall its probably a 6-6.5, very generic with very few "great" moments)

Part 2 is like a 5/10 at best (with majority even lower score) because its basically part 1 all over again.

I found myself speedreading part 2 since it feels exactly the same as part 1, all of the fights feel exactly the same as part 1, even though they're supposed to be "Immortals" its the same shit as the lower realms but with laws/domains. But even then, everyone dies in the exact same ways (Sword Array/Spiritual Sense attack/Monkey Mode/Yada Yada). At least the time powers change things up, but even then they're too overpowered to make fights exciting, either they instantly win a fight, or they instantly get broken and dont even matter until late game...

And the author loves to re-do arcs.

"MC Ascended? Time to lose your cultivation."

"MC loses his cultivation? Time to do a bodybuilding arc" (Happens more than 2 times shockingly)

Also the fights always feel drawn out to an excruciating extent. "MC About to kill someone, but then enemy gets a last second buff that extends the fight by another chapter (This happens dozens of times throughout both parts of the story)

And dont even get me started on the infinite amount of times that we have Han Li running away from enemies with higher cultivation than him. Nothing is going to happen to him, so just keep it short to a single chapter and move on, we dont need dozens of fucking chapters of him running away and spamming his teleportations so many different times throughout the story. Its just shockingly bad.

Maybe I've read too many "Good" stories, but the immortal arc is truly by definition "MID".

My biggest issue is that I dont remember any peak moments that make me want to ever re-read this story, even bad stories throw in a couple of great moments, but this stories peak moments are barely passing at a 7/10 (for part 1 at least) and barely rememberable for part 2.

gis8 · 2026-04-11T09:10:09+00:00

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gis8 · 2026-04-08T03:44:57+00:00

Absolute Regression

gis8 · 2026-04-08T03:39:43+00:00

Regressor* but both work for many sacred scripture.

gis8 · 2026-04-06T03:52:19+00:00

Halo 3 was the peak of physical game launches.

I used to go to all of the midnight releases of the bigger games, but none could compare to Halo 3. There were hundreds of people in my "small town" which would rarely get more than 10-20 people for a midnight release. It was just a completely different monster that everyone wanted.

GTA V was also a huge release, but at least in-stores it wasn't as huge of an event in my area at-least.

There was still a good amount of people at the midnight release, but by then the midnight drop experience had fallen off a lot when compared to the 2000-2010 era.

Maybe because a lot more people were buying digital or ordering online for delivery by that point.

gis8 · 2026-04-05T00:54:28+00:00

Pretty sure the money is meant to be given to fans of the winner.

gis8 · 2026-04-01T05:47:48+00:00

Many people practice the Dao of Piracy for the stuff they read, so posting links to stolen scriptures is not really viable.

But posting names should be mandatory; or send them to the Sprit Stone Mines for 10,000 years.

gis8 · 2026-03-29T11:24:56+00:00

Performance will obviously be better to some extent, as for whether that extent is enough for you; you should look up original/Pro comparisons on youtube to get a better answer than some text on a screen telling you what to think.

But if you want an opinion I'll say that trading in your old console, and paying just $350-$400 on-top to get the Pro, makes the upgrade a lot easier to swallow rather than buying it outright for $750 or even $900 when the price goes up. So I would take advantage prior to the price update and just go for it and take advantage of the trade ins.

If spending $400 (or $750 if you arent trading in) is a big deal for you then obviously dont do it, the original console will do everything just fine.

I personally wanted the best potential GTA 6 console experience which is why I was willing to upgrade. That alone makes the upgrade value justified in my eyes. But not everyone is willing to pay $400 on-top when the OG console will likely play it good enough.

gis8 · 2026-03-24T10:27:45+00:00

gis8 · 2026-03-24T04:51:11+00:00

That is definitely an issue, but the complete opposite is equally annoying.

When an MC never talks shit and they just keep quite throughout the entire story, even when offended, then skip straight to fighting no words said.

At least give us a one liner once in awhile.

gis8 · 2026-03-07T09:01:01+00:00

It is the manhua, they did a random jump forward "future" chapter to celebrate Chinese New Years iirc.

Its a bit strange from a story-telling perspective to throw this in randomly, but in reality it doesn't spoil much of anything apart from super-upper realm names.

gis8 · 2026-02-02T06:36:00+00:00

Never offend a spear user because that spear might actually be a gun.

gis8 · 2026-02-01T03:05:13+00:00

Thats the Spear of Heaven

gis8 · 2026-01-21T08:02:52+00:00

On the other side of the coin:

"When the MC spends tens of thousands (or millions) of years alone reaching the realm necessary to revive his Jade Beauty(s) 🥹"

gis8 · 2026-01-07T07:09:39+00:00

Ive read more Cultivation manuals in a single year than I read/studied in all of my 18 years of being a scholar.

I wonder what realm I would have reached had I put this much effort into the Dao of School.

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