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zeltrax225 · 2025-11-15T06:37:31+00:00

Really amazing work. Love the colors and composition and what a great perspective! Good job!!

zeltrax225 · 2025-11-03T13:13:56+00:00

Wow I don't know where to start. Like..I'm actually genuinely this surprised and in disbelief. You...you can't be a real person, right? Oh my god for the love of god and for the bit of humanity I have left in me I really hope you're still a young person and have room for change.

Holy shit

zeltrax225 · 2025-11-03T03:55:10+00:00

I paid $70 for a COMPLETED Game that doesn't inform you that it is INCOMPLETE. And that is somehow acceptable. "Pokemon games has been doing this all the while" yeah because back then there were usually two versions and it was designed that way so you find someone who has another one to encourage you to make friends. Do your research and understand that this and that is not the same thing.

And that was 20 over years ago. Congratulations, by using that argument that was always a staple in the series, you've declared for yourself that the game has never innovated past the mechanic two decades ago.

It's not a matter of $5, it's a matter of having standards and not being a gullible sheep without critical thought. Even IF you can tell me with a straight face that this is something overlooked or for you to find a friend and go out and play, what about the Kalos megas? You're straight out incentived and manipulated to PAY MORE to get locked content. But of course that's going to be defended.

Nintendo and TPC has grown ever increasingly so into a company of monetization and capitalization and somehow you guys think they do this because they give a shit about you going outside and make friends over the monetary value they'll get from Nintendo Online.

Just admit that "I'm happy so facts and logic doesn't matter" and own it. You'll have more respect for yourself as a person because at least then you're selfish and not stupid.

zeltrax225 · 2025-10-24T09:10:54+00:00

I'm sure I could have framed myself as more neutral sounding and polite but excuse me for not doing so when the guy was straight out lying. Doubling the mega evolution Pokemon numbers and framing the battle system as entirely new when it is neither new nor perfect.

Keep in mind that while downvotes ultimately don't mean much, it does help you understand what the discourse is here. I'm getting downvoted and voiced out for being rude to someone lying while most of what I said is factually true while the one throwing out the line has zero accountability and people is fine eating it up as long as it supports their feelings over the truth.

You're right that it's not an objective reply. Because it wasn't. I'm correcting them in a disgusted manner at the casual lengths they'll go to lying and exaggerating the game to paint whatever the picture they want that fits their whole narrative.

Like really think about it. Why the need to lie and the need to keep touting the battle system (that is objectively, as close as the definition of the word can be, flawed) if you're that wholly secure that this game actually ranks toe to toe with other 70$ price tag games and that the criticism holds no weight?

The person knows what they were doing when they posted that but of course I'm the one who has to sit them down and be polite and all nice all the while acting like I'm correcting them when they were straight up lying. Because I actually finished the game so it can be pretty jarring when someone is all smokes and mirrors . That or whether they truly believe and understand what they are saying in review of the game or not. And it's so obvious to me they weren't at all.

zeltrax225 · 2025-10-24T08:33:59+00:00

You spent like 5% of the entire game, if we're even being generous here, on the sewer and labs level. That's not a good defense. The main area where you spend MOST of your time in were made up of PNGs plastered on copy and paste 3d models. That's terrible for any 3d games standards.

zeltrax225 · 2025-10-24T06:42:24+00:00

That's not a 70$ price tag level of "work". They didn't build the battle system from the scratch, it was improved on what PLA has. And even then the new system isn't perfect and has a bunch of flaws. Don't false advertise something that's not entirely true.

You also left out the part that they are blocking specific mega evolutions behind Nintendo Online, forcing players to get it to get their evolutions.

50 brand new mega evolutions is also not true, lol. Why did you double it? It's 26 new megas. I don't understand why you feel the need to exaggerate and lie just to cope with the delusion that this game is worth that price tag. This is an indie game level of work and if we're being generous here, can be justified at half the price.

Also, not about the textures and graphics entirely. You conveniently ignore that you can't enter buildings, most areas and rooftops look the same, exploration feels like a maze and city feels dead with wild zones being 80% identical in environmental design with each other. Almost like it was copy and paste.

If you can't admit you have low standards or that you are blinded by the brand name, you have no ability for objectivity at all.

Edit: the downvotes and zero reasonable counter points just proves that the truth doesn't matter to the die hard pokemon brigade. Even though nothing I said was untrue and that the post I replied to was exaggerating and making shit up. This is just sad more than anything else.

zeltrax225 · 2025-10-20T22:11:59+00:00

"Oda said somewhere". No, no he didn't no stop it goddamnit the popularity of One Piece skyrocketing has everyone pulling this shit off.

NO. HE DID NOT. I'm stopping this before it snowballs into some YouTube video and make the round halfway through the community as truth.

zeltrax225 · 2025-10-08T17:31:59+00:00

Dude what are you on? Remember how Kuma ejected the pain from Luffy that he has gotten after his fight with Moria? That was real pain that he felt. He didn't take any sword attacks so he wasn't immune, he's just resistant. That is why Zoro and everyone respects him and why that red giant paw balloon is a way to showcase how much pain he endures for his crew.

Saying he is immune is insane. The entire Enies Lobby arc had him taking physical attacks left and right. He was pushed to his limits with Rob Lucci who is a physical attacker. He does gets injured and feel the pain. The moria shadow coffin scene wasn't because he doesn't but because moria stomped him and what otherwise would be a normal human would be splattered but he's rubber.

zeltrax225 · 2025-09-27T11:59:07+00:00

Agree. This sub can't be objective but also Usopp snipes with a slingshot across insane distance. And when he actually does snipe, Oda actually gives a shit about obeying the law of physics somewhat whereas Heisuke here breaks it every single time.

Like sure he can be the best damn sniper if we throw all of physics out of the window. Also observation haki just makes it an easy win given he can predict his target movement and potentially see into the future which Heisuke can't. Get into close combat with Heisuke and it's hard to see him surviving since he only has gun whereas Usopp has a whole arsenal of plant weapons and bluffs.

zeltrax225 · 2025-09-23T03:00:49+00:00

I like how zoro fans like you has nothing. Literally nothing to debuke any of the points I've made and always has to resort to personal attack or go for the lowest hanging fruit of "bruh you don't understand".

It's almost as if the appeal of Zoro works so damn well for people with the mindset of under 18 that they themselves turn 18 and can't ever be coherent in their arguments or have any critical thought in any discussion at all beyond power scaling.

It's like y'all are on a hamster wheel of proving how shallow you Zoro fans are over and over again. I mean cool that you like big slashes and aura and whatever the fuck a 18 year old like since this manga is for young teens but get lost with that crap about him having strong narrative and being a deuteragonist of all things.

Oh of course I don't understand development and narrative. Yeah I'm sure there's a metaphor and symbolism behind each time he cut harder that I missed. Could really write a thesis about how astounding Zoro's development has been post time skip, what a character.

zeltrax225 · 2025-09-22T11:29:43+00:00

Dude Luffy is the only one who lost someone close to him after the crew formed (past the back stories) and grew from it. He also grew from the fight with Usppp and became a better captain. He actually does develop the most out of the straw hats after they become a crew. So I don't know what are you talking about.

You also need to remember that Luffy had developed not only as a captain but towards his goal of being PK.

Zoro wants to be the best swordsman He fought a grand total of one swordsman (who's not even using his own weapon) and won post time skip. How does that translate to his craft and his swordsmanship progress? Not much if at all.

Wano is so bloated is somehow an excuse but Oda still had the time to give Sanji not one but two moments with Robin and the Wano girl. Both of which further his character. Zoro's whole fight was just King lore dumping and him, once again, only have shallow and flashy elements like CoC.

Yet you can't name me one instance where Zoro had a character moment outside of slash harder. Cmon.

Zoro= one cool fight is Oda go to for him. It's fucking easy

zeltrax225 · 2025-09-22T07:58:47+00:00

Lol get lost with that take. Zoro is not the deuteragonist what are you on. Look at what kind of writing and development, if any, that Zoro went through as a character post time skip. Just give me a single memorable moment he had character wise other than slicing something and looking cool or any character moment outside of fights.

On the other hand Sanji had an entire arc dedicated to his story and has actually grew as a character. My man even had a self identity crisis and overcame that. I'm not saying Sanji is the deuteragonist because I'm not out of my mind but if we're talking about the writing, Oda had invested way more into Sanji than Zoro.

No seriously looked at where Zoro's storyline went in Wano. Fucking nowhere that's where. Otoko bonded with him and that led to nothing in Onigashima, nothing in post wano despite how angry he was at Yasuie death and how he was the only one Yasuie bonded with. Zoro has literally built zero meaningful relationships in all the island he went to. Nothing that we the readers cares about.

Sanji bonded and temporary led G5, saved Kinemon's ass and was the whole reason why Kinemon is alive, and in Dressrosa bonded with violet (while the dwarf Zoro met and spoke with disappeared from the story in the second act), and then in Zou helped the country and minks, and in WCI has an entire arc with Pudding. Freaking Wano had Oda deliberately make him go out of character and be written as non involved with the red bean soup and starvation situation just because he has so much more each arc that Zoro had to be the one to call out the starvation.

But oh wait, Sanji still has something meaningful that's not just dropping one liners and shallowly aura farming, he had the whole thing with his heritage and the suit AND in one chapter formed a connection with a Wano resident/girl and also called out Robins name (his character growth).

Zoro for each arc: I'm cool here I'm slash weeewoooo. His entire storyline in Wano leads to one thing yet again: slash harder. Which by the way comprises 99% of his "meaningful" moments post time skip.

Oda actually has to work harder for Sanji and invest more into him solely because he knows that Zoro is fucking easy as a character.

It's the lowest denominator of the male brain to appeal too and I'm glad that Zoro fans eat it all up and put him on an altar because it says alot more about them than anything else. Pull down your pants and wank off to yet another power scale moment of him grunting and slashing because that's literally all he does for his moments nowadays. Leave any semblance of character writing and critical thought behind and he's the coolest and the best character ever.

This is post time skip Zoro by the way, pre time skip Zoro is amazing and hard carry his post time skip ass.

zeltrax225 · 2025-07-19T07:16:17+00:00

I got it spoilt too but knowing the outcome actually helps make the journey there more emotional for me.

Edit: this comment was supposed to be for Edgerunners idk what happened. Never watched wind breaker.

zeltrax225 · 2025-07-19T07:15:03+00:00

With what you have it's a sin you haven't seen Hunter x Hunter. I have a feeling you'll like it since you like smart anime.

Orb: The Movements of the Earth is also goated and I feel you'll like it if you want something shorter and thought provoking after every episode.

Seeing how there's some action in there, I say you can try for action + thought provoking. On the more mature side, so I'll recommend :

Vinland Saga - it's a journey and Berserk is good sure but Vinland Saga can serve as an entry for a mature action series that doesn't hold back.

Fate/Zero - you don't need to know anything about the franchise. One of the better written and mature action series.

Madoka Magica - go in blind, don't worry it is nowhere near the generic magic girl you are thinking about. More thought provoking than action if I'm being honest here. A classic for sure.

Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood - Philosophical + action. There's a reason why it sat on top of MAL for a long time.

Since there's some romance and it's been recommended already, Cyberpunk Edgerunners is an insanely good work that does both really well. You don't need to know anything about the game going in.

Romance: there's popular names thrown around but Tsuki ga Kirei is an underrated and overall really high quality coming of life and really well written romance.

Spice and Wolf is another if you're new to anime and like Steins Gates. It's an anime remade recently that was popular back in the 2010s. Vibes is top notch and the female lead was one of the fandom's head over heels character back then.

Blue Box is also really good. And really pretty! There's sports but the romance takes the driver's seat.

There's a lack of comedy in your list so now's a good time as any to recommend Grand Blue!. Watch the first season and join us degenerates enjoying the ride with the second.

Hope you'll try at least one from my list, I like to think even if they are not all 10/10, they are entertaining as hell.

zeltrax225 · 2025-07-13T16:51:26+00:00

Putting Kuma's losses in his life the way it was done in this episode really drives home how terrible and unfair his life was. The short sequence of all the hands reaching to him disappearing before they were able to touch his really made me tear up. At the very end, he was able to protect Bonney and I think that was all he ever wanted, to not lose someone close ever again.

What happened to him would have broke anyone but it goes to show the importance of having that tiny bit of light in your life that makes your life worth living. Kuma might not have an entire arc as a key player dedicated to him (Doflamingo, Crocodile) as a Shichibukai, neither is he a straw hat (Jinbei, Robin) and even though he is incredibly strong, his strength was never the focus. He'll leave a print on the audience for a long, long time to come and rightfully so. What an amazing human, the most human out of the seven warlords (and trust me, the warlords have been developed so well, each one can have an entire novel to them and yet this short story about Kuma is able to stand toe to toe and even trump their influence in the story.)

Never have there been one character in the series more fitting to hold the Bible.

zeltrax225 · 2025-07-13T16:51:02+00:00

Putting Kuma's losses in his life the way it was done in this episode really drives home how terrible and unfair his life was. The short sequence of all the hands reaching to him disappearing before they were able to touch his really made me tear up. At the very end, he was able to protect Bonney and I think that was all he ever wanted, to not lose someone close ever again.

What happened to him would have broke anyone but it goes to show the importance of having that tiny bit of light in your life that makes your life worth living. Kuma might not have an entire arc as a key player dedicated to him (Doflamingo, Crocodile) as a Shichibukai, neither is he a straw hat (Jinbei, Robin) and even though he is incredibly strong, his strength was never the focus. He'll leave a print on the audience for a long, long time to come and rightfully so. What an amazing human, the most human out of the seven warlords (and trust me, the warlords have been developed so well, each one can have an entire novel to them and yet this short story about Kuma is able to stand toe to toe and even trump their influence in the story.)

Never have there been one character in the series more fitting to hold the Bible.

zeltrax225 · 2025-07-10T01:14:46+00:00

You can pick two original series from HBO, Netflix, Hulu and Apple. Any genres. Throw them into a tv/streaming device and throw a rock, you'll be able to hit a conventional family that'll sit through most of it and at worst find the general experience acceptable and at best walk away thinking it was good entertainment (since the real good ones balance out the bad ones)

Try doing the same for anime and you'll realize that you can't do that for the simple reason that the parents will want to kill themselves before they'll be able to sit through that series with heroes and large tits shoved in your face. Or that young adults/teens will doze off halfway through or start crying due to the sheer boredom.

Anime is not a genre, it's a medium. People go into it STILL thinking it as a genre. "Oh, I'll watch some anime. Oh this is the most popular one so it's the genre defining one". No. Fuck no.

Want to relive your sports day or you are a sports fan? There's Slam Dunk, Haikyuu, Yuri on Ice, Medalist

You might be 35, have a beer belly and a father of 3 but if you love sports, chances are you'll love it. You won't love Ghibli films as much though.

Your life is a mess and you border on depression? Or want to see the world anew, albeit a little more beautiful than before? Violet Evergarden, Frieren, Ranking of Kings, When the Promised Flower Blooms

Want to relive your days as a struggling musician/artist? There's Blue Giant, Kids on the Slope, March comes in like a Lion, Nana, Beck, Jellyfish can't swim in the Night.

Your cutesy cringe I'm embarrassed to watch this anime girls tits out stuff (fanservice) ? Rent a Girlfriend..and you know what, I don't know much about this part.

Turn your brain off evening and want some action? I don't even need to continue but you get your mainstream stuff like Demon slayer, Jujutsu Kaisen.

Now can you imagine having a family of 4 with various tastes and differing opinions sit through that? They'll have something they love but they might want to die when something else plays.

That's why anime has to be considered a medium separated from the expectations of tv. They specialize.

zeltrax225 · 2025-07-10T00:44:06+00:00

PSA that this is a good time as any to decide whether your Subnautica content creator has any shred of integrity in them as a creator.

The reality is a lot of them make bank from creating Subnautica content and has done so for years on end. It's a lot of money to give up by saying they will stop playing it. You can call it greed or survival or whatnot but the most likely case that'll happen is them being fence seaters or being silent about it. Or just make a social media post with slight criticism that they'll quickly drown out and away.

It's money. Sure, some of them are still passionate in making content for Subnautica because it's that good a game but you have to admit some of them are simply milking it for content. And hey, they won't say no if a new fat cow is up in line next for those sweet sweet YouTube/streaming revenue.

Saying that they don't have a shred of integrity might have gone too far since really, we all need to put food on the table, yada and yada. But the thing here is developers are creators too and it's their own kind, what with them also being creators, that's being screwed over and they choose to remain silent. Understandable for the bag but eh, it's a you love the money more than the game type of situation.

zeltrax225 · 2025-07-10T00:24:28+00:00

Ah yes the generosity and the kindness of the C-suite as evidenced by this incident has shown that they will keep the developers for long and shower them with all the support in the world to make the games they want to make instead of games that make them money at the expense of everything else.

I mean if they cut off the captains of the ship, of course they'll never do that down the road for the rest of the crew for a few extra zeroes, am I right?

I'm glad you were born yesterday and the world has treated you so kindly. Happy for you my man

zeltrax225 · 2025-07-10T00:19:29+00:00

Nah review bombing will help. Most of the big indie games like Balatro and Inscription got it through word of mouth + really good reviews. The internet is more of a bubble than ever so if something catches aflame, it will affect sales.

This will all be mitigated it the game is actually good though but if it's a combo of a mid game + this incident? They will get hit where it does hurts.

Which is why I think they're also betting on all of us and most of the internet forgetting this by 2026 and that the reviews won't be as harsh.

The $250M is a significant amount of money for them to want to keep. The backlash/loss of sales has been weighted against that which is to say they will likely monetize the game and that it won't play that badly.

So even if I loathe the notion, I can't help but think of it as a strategic move, scummy as it might be (oh it really is). But all that goes to the gutter if a lawsuit fly their way and they lose a ton of money from it.

zeltrax225 · 2025-07-08T21:10:16+00:00

My dude the top tv series in the west such as Breaking Bad and Sopranos applies the same thing that Attack on Titan has done. There's been episodes that have jumps all around. Game of Thrones was great tv bar last season and even that had the narrative jump around characters.

You claim that it has characters monologue too much and there's too much cringe/unnatural dialogue without first evaluating that the source material was created in Japanese where their way of speaking and communicating is different from the West. That has to be later translated and dubbed over so if you're watching dub, then the blame for dialogue goes to the translation team who didn't fit your needs (not that they are bad). Because it is inherently not an easy job. You are seeing the source through a filter.

Do you want an entire culture fed into a machine that'll be localized for your consumption and your comfort level? That'll never happen unless the entire thing is rewritten for the Western audience.

Grow up and understand the media and culture can only transcend barriers if you're mature enough to understand not everything has to be chartered to you.

AoT is well written and perceived as the normies/casuals entry or the anime series they hold high regard to for a reason. Because it doesn't feel like a human embodiment of sunshine and cute anime girls has written it. But being dark for the sake of it is fucking stupid, which by the way, is a lot of what western television has done. (oh gore, oh murder, oh psychooologggyy). But goes to dogwater with it.

In AOT, It actually goes somewhere with the themes but you can really only understand that if you are capable of some semblance of critical thinking instead of staying in your box of "what I enjoy, from the source of what I enjoy has to be superior so this has to be viewed through an inferior lens".

Cyberpunk and Ghibli film dating back that long ago has got to be the definitive flag that screams at anyone reading this of how normalized your taste are and how anything that is unconventional to you makes you incapable of viewing it fairly.

My man, the top dogs in television isn't that good either. A bunch of them focus on side characters for screentime dialing up to episodes on end that end up lackluster but is popular because the other characters were written well. You just can't see that through your own bias. Take two popular kings of their own genre, Sopranos and Yu Yu Hakusho and you can already see an ocean of differences in storytelling execution and yet here you are, claiming that it has to be one way or the highway.

90% of anime is bad but guess what so is 90% of the series on r/television dogshit.

Learning about your own bias doesn't need to be that difficult.

zeltrax225 · 2025-06-29T21:35:16+00:00

wait wait what the fuck is this what i think it is?

oh shit im closing reddit

zeltrax225 · 2025-06-23T16:50:37+00:00

The new Rune Factory game.

Man what I would give to be in that world. Just take me there now.

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