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@xianc78 it always sounds really cringe imo lol. They make these really good songs with strong melodies and then have a singer just sing the most retarded shit known to man directly on top of that melody.

@matrix fatal frame 2 is actually a remake of a remake!

@RehnyNytes256 @Hephaestic I still need to play the DLC, it came out at a kind of awkward time for me

@Hephaestic @koimata the soundtrack? Peak. The movement? Peak. The gameplay? Peak. I'm also a sucker for like, stupidly edgy shit.

5 is really good too though, I enjoyed it for the most part. Just wasn't too fond of V's parts. The game is at its best when you're playing as Dante. I haven't played 4 yet, 1 and 3 are pretty good. Didn't play 2 because everyone said it sucked.

Maybe if I play 4 I'll like it more than DmC but idk man, the gameplay is just so fucking good. Also what other game out there do you get to fight against Bill o Reilly's digitized head?!

@WandererUber @ChristiJunior @cunny i apologize, it was rude of me to be insulting.

i heavily disagree with your reading of the game's story though. i haven't watched the synthetic man video yet but i'll probably heavily disagree with him too.

i even went into the game thinking it was going to be feminist bullshit and i was going to hate it, but came out of it thinking that was all hyped up based on some out of context lines. i enjoyed it altogether, minus some unfortunate technical issues and the camera being a bitch.

@koimata the two biggest ones are Nintendo and Windows lmao.
If we can get a little meta, I like mastodon's front-end way more than pleroma's. Soapbox is pretty dang good though too.
Not a whole lot of people into furries at all.
Most recently it is silent hill f, but lots of other games too I'm sure. I don't think many people in general think DmC is the best devil may cry xD
I think two other people than me have even played phantasy star online 2 new genesis, let alone enjoyed it as much as I do.

It's OK though I'm not complaining or anything I just think it's kind of funny.

@Hephaestic yeah that sounds about right xD
It's always been like this man, best example is when literally all of my friends bought elden ring and I'm over here playing Kirby and the Forgotten Land

@tomie ジュウス is the way forward

Do I have the most shit taste on fedi? It's like everything I like is heavily unpopular here.

@WandererUber @ChristiJunior @cunny well naturally the character is a female, so you would expect it to be about a girl's version of those expectations and struggles. If it were a male protagonist with male societal struggles I bet people would call him weak and gay or some shit and that would only solidify the message too. I realize I'm talking to a bunch of autists who probably have trouble relating to abstract concepts though.

@pongldr happy birthday!

@cunny @ChristiJunior mind you, i got the vast majority of this from a single playthrough + watching the other endings. it's not that difficult to understand.

@cunny @ChristiJunior the basic story of the game is
-dad is an asshole, treats mom bad
-mom just takes it because that is the traditional role for a woman
-MC hates both of them, her dad for being an asshole and her mom for just sitting there and taking it
-MC's older sister who she is very close to gets married and that makes things at home harder for her
-dad is such an asshole that he has unpaid debts that can now only be paid by marrying off MC to a wealthy family
-MC doesn't want to get married to some random dude because she's worried he'll turn out to be just like her dad
-she still has an internal struggle between just following the societal expectation and going her own way and that causes her a shit ton of stress
-MC's best friend (guy who doesn't treat her like a traditional woman, treats her like "one of the guys" pretty much) is an herbologist and gives her medicine from his family that is a spiritual hallucinogen thing. he does this in the hope that she will be able to reconcile with herself
-on top of this, the town is shinto and worships inari, and there is a legend where whenever a young girl goes missing from the town she has been spirited away by a relative of the fox god to be married to them and they have a good life

this is where the story gets a little wacky for me, i haven't gotten too far into NG+ yet but it isn't super necessary for this conversation. basically MC takes the drugs, she may or may not be missing from the town and in the spirit world or it might just be symbolism, she is being courted by the fox god relative who is also this wealthy dude she was being married off to by her father. it turns out he is a good guy and is guiding her through the extremely difficult process of shedding her youth and becoming a woman and he's there every step of the way, HOWEVER there is the part of MC that doesn't want this and is still really scared of it so she battles against it.

the first ending of the game is a fakeout ending where the drugs were just making her see shit the whole time and she was killing real people at her own arranged wedding. i don't believe that's actually the case.

the second ending has her marrying the guy and the part of her that is fearful of it gets squashed, the wealthy guy and her best friend even become friends because they both have the ideal of protecting MC. it does have a bit of an element of toxicity to it though because MC never reconciled with her fearful side, she just tucked it away.

the third ending has her defeating the wealthy guy and leaving with her best friend so she can essentially be a kid forever with him, or at least that's my interpretation of it.

the fourth ending is the "true" ending, that you have to play through the game three times to get. which is a little steep, for sure. anyway, this one has MC reconciling both sides of herself and together they convince the wealthy dude that they should both wait and make the decision for themselves instead of it being arranged. if their love for each other is actually real, then they will find out over time and they begin writing each other letters.

also this wealthy dude was helped by MC when they were both little kids. he was hurt by an animal (either a rabbit or a fox, can't remember atm) and MC helps patch him up as well as shooing away the animal without all the adults killing it. the wealthy dude then has to move but never forgets MC.

i didn't read this as being a woke game at all. its setting is in a time where women were heavily pressured into traditional roles no matter what, but it is used as a really interesting backdrop for a much more broad issue that plagues people today everywhere in the world: having extreme societal pressure to the point where it harms you. alongside that, with the struggle of going through all these pressures while also growing up and transitioning into adulthood. the message of the game is very clear, that you need to reconcile those two parts of yourself and find a way to proceed forward as a person that is actually healthy. i relate to that story a lot as someone who was the eldest child on both sides of the family and had a huge amount of religious pressure on top of that and it is something i'm *still* trying my best to piece together after being torn apart. i think it is a story that would resonate with a LOT of people if they could stop being retarded about it and just whittle it down to "men bad, marriage bad" or some stupid shit like that.