@All_bonesJones @Goalkeeper @Owl >One of the first things I saw in the game was a monster pinning Hinako to the ground and you get a button prompt to do a double-leg kick that launches him across the room.
do you have a clip of this? xD i never saw that in the game at all. any time you get grabbed by an enemy there's just an animation that happens and you get a bunch of damage dealt to you before hinako is able to finally shake the thing off. no button prompt at all. maybe there's a cutscene where she does that i'm forgetting about though.
@Owl @rlier23 @Goalkeeper @DEERBLOOD @LittleTom the combat is serviceable, it's only made a lot worse by the camera.
it's obviously not a silent hill game though lol.
the stamina gets much better if you upgrade it and/or equip the omamori to increase it, which was a cool system because you can rearrange upgrades on the fly to fit the scenario you're about to go in. when i knew i was going to be running instead of fighting, it was all stamina and dodge related stuff. when i was fighting, it was health, stamina, and damage.
the biggest problems of the game design imo would be the puzzles because they got really weak in the last half, and the weapon durability system because there's no fallback for having no weapon and they just spawn more weapons for you instead. there are omamoris that will give you more damage depending on your weapon's durability, but that's about the only thing it affects. at least in zelda, the weapon does extra damage when it breaks and there are things you can use as weapons littered all over the place, so you're encouraged to use a bunch of them.
there is a "master sword" type weapon in the game that doesn't break but does recharge, but you can only get it on subsequent playthroughs. i think they should have had a default pocket knife or something that didn't break and then the weapons that dealt more damage, so you had to actually manage when you were using which weapons.
@veff @Owl @Goalkeeper @All_bonesJones metroid prime is a bit of an outlier here imo. it was a really good remaster of a 20 year old game to a new console for $40. not a remake, it didn't change anything, it made it way easier to play than the original. just improvements across the board.
all those other ones are full remakes that changed things quite a bit, usually to their detriment.
@Mr_NutterButter trump just barely declared that we are in an armed conflict with the cartels so we'll probably start seeing a lot more of it
@Immahnoob everyone saying this is missing some extremely key points.
the girl "taking her time" exists in the same body as the girl wanting to devote herself to kotoyuki, the man she was going to be married to in an arranged marriage. the same girl who defended kotoyuki just wanting to be together with her and be happy.
this "taking her time" is not the modern day equivalent of "taking her time." hinako was going to go into a forced marriage because her dad had debts he needed to pay off, and is legitimately scared about getting married due to everything she's seen with her own parents + how she was treated in 1960s JAPAN as a tomboy instead of a little perfect princess.
kotoyuki comes to the realization that, although he is extremely passionate for hinako, they barely actually know each other. they both agree that they need to wait a bit longer before marrying and they begin actually getting to know each other first.
hinako straight up tells kotoyuki "if the love you have for us was real, then i hope we can meet again. we'll think it through, slowly and carefully. we'll have our answer ready."
on top of all of this, if you want to go with the interpretation that the spiritual parts are far more real and not just hallucinated, which as far as i can tell so far the game leaves pretty vague, there is an ancient "spell" that causes kotoyuki to be extremely invested in hinako. he says that he wants to make sure his love for her is actually real and not just some spell binding them. reminds me a little bit of the witcher with yennefer and geralt actually.
the more "hallucination" interpretation of this would be that the "spell" is his strict mother (which is a whole other aspect of this story) and hinako's parents both trying to get them married, and that pressure to do so is hastening the pace so it feels like a spell has been cast.
people are looking at this game through way too much of a modern day political lens, absolutely brain rotted by other actually woke games. there is so much focus on hinako being some girlboss or something like that without taking *any* of the extra context in.
i don't know if people just have not gone through anything even remotely similar to what hinako has and so they just don't get it, or they are lacking something that lets them empathize with the character, or if they do empathize with the character and are just distancing themselves, or what. i'm sure the vast majority of people talking about it haven't played the game, haven't dove into the story as was intended by the writer, and are probably just being reactionary as a defense mechanism. youtubers doing it are probably just ragebaiting, whether they know it or not.
@ehhh i'm not talking about people like that, i'm talking about people who also didn't trust the government for the covid stuff. hence the poison pill.
come on! a WOMAN mayor?
a WOMAN treasure hunter?
a WOMAN bounty hunter?
open your eyes #sheeple #thefutureisNOTfemale
0/10 bullshit modern woke feminist propaganda liberal agenda #woke #gowokegobroke #mgtow #nonbuynary
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@LittleTom the thumbnail is right but the title is wrong
@ChristiJunior disney is pretty fucking bad considering they hired a guy who was fired from nickelodeon for being a convicted child abuser
however something about nickelodeon is so much more brazen that i felt compelled to vote for them
@leespringfield1903 yeah i have a friend who is all viking mode and has punisher shirts and shit lol, he's got like axes and swords and shields and shit. i just thought of him when kash said that valhalla line xD
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