Coded Artist @coded_artist@gameliberty.club
- High Skill
- Coding, Unity 3D
- Low Skill
- Drawing, Memes
- Best
- To destroy your enemies, to have them driven before you, and to hear the lamnations of their women.
- Worst
- Python
I draw, code, and make memes sometimes.
Joined Mar 2019
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Star Ocean: The Second Story R is one of those games I ended up getting pretty much entirely because of Fedi recommendations. Given how critical this place tends to be of new games, especially new JRPGs, it was quite notable to see a recent release be highly praised by multiple people here. Of course, this game isn’t exactly *new* (it is indeed the second remake of The Second Story), but it was released in late 2023, and for me it was certainly a new experience, not having played a single Star Ocean game before.
Interestingly, Second Story R feels remarkably fresh and modern even allowing for the various enhancements and additions you’d expect to see in a remake: It boasts quite the big, open overworld that rewards exploration with treasure chests, quality fishing spots and even superbosses, and the game allows you to visit a bunch of towns well before they become story-relevant. Hell, there’s even at least one completely optional town, as well as a well-hidden shop to uncover in the overworld.
Moreover, you got yourself a fun real-time combat system instead of turn-based combat system number 6 gorillion, one boasting plenty of neat ideas (like a high-risk high-reward dodging system) and pretty much all the party combat options you could ask for (like switching between characters in the middle of battle, giving your party members instructions, deciding which spells your mages cast etc). I do kinda feel the combat system actually lends itself better to 1v1 fights than the kind of 4 party characters VS half a dozen enemies that you’ll eventually find yourself involved in, given just how chaotic the latter becomes. Also, without much of a cooldown on your regular Arts and MP rarely being a major limitation, Art Spam becomes a bit *too* effective in most fights, even on Hard mode. That said, combat in Second Story R is still way more fun and interesting than your standard turn-based system.
One aspect of Star Ocean TSSR that DOESN’T feel all that modern is the presentation. While Squeenix didn’t go with their typical HD-2D graphics (which I make no bones about utterly despising), they did opt for a “2.5D” look, namely pixel characters in 3D environments. Now, I *do* very much prefer this style to HD-2D, since you actually do get to enjoy some genuinely good-looking, even somewhat impressive vistas, and can make use of some actual draw distance to convey a proper sense of scale, including when exploring the overworld. You also do get some really cool, good-looking cutscenes over the course of the adventure.
On the other hand, plopping old-school pixel characters into detailed 3D environments can feel pretty immersion-breaking at times, and the pixel characters’ lack of detail and expressiveness really let them down during certain key emotional scenes – especially since the English language voice acting can’t really pick up the slack, overall being pretty weak - a step below what you have in something like Xenoblade 2, itself a game with very uneven and flawed voice work. On the whole I do still very much prefer 2.5D to HD-2D, since the former at least offers the potential of far more interesting and impressive sights, but I would easily have preferred fully 3D graphics, and do find all these retro-pandering art styles very tiresome.
The music however is consistently excellent, as is par for the course with classic JRPGs. You got an overall lovely soundtrack with some standout powerful, emotional songs that genuinely enhance and enrich your gaming experience. Perhaps less expected is the fact that Second Story R has remastered the original soundtrack *while still including the entire original soundtrack along with the redone songs*. Obviously, this is the best of both worlds, giving you a really nice update to the classic soundtrack, while you also retain the option to stick with the original. Arguably this SHOULD be the industry standard when it comes to remakes and remasters, but obviously that’s often not how these things work, so exemplary remakes should be brought attention to and properly praised.
Star Ocean: The Second Story R is one of those games I ended up getting pretty much entirely because of Fedi recommendations. Given how critical this place tends to be of new games, especially new JRPGs, it was quite notable to see a recent release be highly praised by multiple people here. Of course, this game isn’t exactly *new* (it is indeed the second remake of The Second Story), but it was released in late 2023, and for me it was certainly a new experience, not having played a single Star Ocean game before.
Interestingly, Second Story R feels remarkably fresh and modern even allowing for the various enhancements and additions you’d expect to see in a remake: It boasts quite the big, open overworld that rewards exploration with treasure chests, quality fishing spots and even superbosses, and the game allows you to visit a bunch of towns well before they become story-relevant. Hell, there’s even at least one completely optional town, as well as a well-hidden shop to uncover in the overworld.
Moreover, you got yourself a fun real-time combat system instead of turn-based combat system number 6 gorillion, one boasting plenty of neat ideas (like a high-risk high-reward dodging system) and pretty much all the party combat options you could ask for (like switching between characters in the middle of battle, giving your party members instructions, deciding which spells your mages cast etc). I do kinda feel the combat system actually lends itself better to 1v1 fights than the kind of 4 party characters VS half a dozen enemies that you’ll eventually find yourself involved in, given just how chaotic the latter becomes. Also, without much of a cooldown on your regular Arts and MP rarely being a major limitation, Art Spam becomes a bit *too* effective in most fights, even on Hard mode. That said, combat in Second Story R is still way more fun and interesting than your standard turn-based system.
One aspect of Star Ocean TSSR that DOESN’T feel all that modern is the presentation. While Squeenix didn’t go with their typical HD-2D graphics (which I make no bones about utterly despising), they did opt for a “2.5D” look, namely pixel characters in 3D environments. Now, I *do* very much prefer this style to HD-2D, since you actually do get to enjoy some genuinely good-looking, even somewhat impressive vistas, and can make use of some actual draw distance to convey a proper sense of scale, including when exploring the overworld. You also do get some really cool, good-looking cutscenes over the course of the adventure.
On the other hand, plopping old-school pixel characters into detailed 3D environments can feel pretty immersion-breaking at times, and the pixel characters’ lack of detail and expressiveness really let them down during certain key emotional scenes – especially since the English language voice acting can’t really pick up the slack, overall being pretty weak - a step below what you have in something like Xenoblade 2, itself a game with very uneven and flawed voice work. On the whole I do still very much prefer 2.5D to HD-2D, since the former at least offers the potential of far more interesting and impressive sights, but I would easily have preferred fully 3D graphics, and do find all these retro-pandering art styles very tiresome.
The music however is consistently excellent, as is par for the course with classic JRPGs. You got an overall lovely soundtrack with some standout powerful, emotional songs that genuinely enhance and enrich your gaming experience. Perhaps less expected is the fact that Second Story R has remastered the original soundtrack *while still including the entire original soundtrack along with the redone songs*. Obviously, this is the best of both worlds, giving you a really nice update to the classic soundtrack, while you also retain the option to stick with the original. Arguably this SHOULD be the industry standard when it comes to remakes and remasters, but obviously that’s often not how these things work, so exemplary remakes should be brought attention to and properly praised.
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https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1764799914918490287.html
Troons and their enablers are disgusting. Hell's gonna get a lot more crowded as the consequences of this shit play out.
Troons and their enablers are disgusting. Hell's gonna get a lot more crowded as the consequences of this shit play out.
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Finally, let me address where this game falls on my Based Morality Scale, which actually makes for surprisingly cheerful reading in Current Year. Due to this being a remake of a 25 year old game, with the original script still intact, you inadvertently end up with some wonderfully countercultural and wholesome writing, making this game easily a +1, and I’d even go as far as handing out a +2 when looking at the sheer amount of things it does right.
This is a game where men are allowed to be men, and women get to be women – where concepts like being “a real man” or “a proper lady” aren’t taboo, but openly acknowledged as legitimate. “Gender neutral writing” is nowhere to be seen – you even see female characters worrying about putting on weight and it being played for laughs, not as an opportunity to decry Muh Unrealistic Beauty Standards. Hell, even the infamous “Now I can never be a bride!” line that wokealizers have declared Jihad against makes it into this game, albeit rephrased – no worries though, because female characters dreaming about getting married is the topic of multiple Private Action scenes!
There are almost too many Based little moments to count – there’s the early-game Priest character being a wholly positive presence (indeed, pretty much all the Old White Male authority figures are portrayed favorably), Celine the hot mage advocating for corporal punishment of misbehaving children, a belief in heaven seeming pretty widespread even among the more “sci-fi” characters, a hyper-advanced civilization’s abolition of the death penalty leading to some major future headaches, at least one character ending delighting Shinzo Abe – so much good stuff! And lest I forget, I counted a grand total of Zero nigger characters, which is the same number of singular theys that I recall coming across.
Obviously, all of this feels remarkably refreshing – like finally getting to breathe in clean mountain air after a lifetime spent in a smog-filled Chinese city – as well as very surprising, seeing how a pure +2 JRPG should pretty much be a physical impossibility these days. Any modern, text-heavy game seems almost GUARANTEED to be at least somewhat compromised by trannylator bullshit, and that’s before getting into the JRPG genre’s long-standing tendency towards gay anti-racist, anti-religion messages (Final Fantasy X being an obvious example), or even more recently, feminism (see Persona 5). Star Ocean: The Second Story R might just be the most *genuinely* wholesome JRPG I’ve ever played, and since the rest the of game on the whole is pretty great as well, it becomes extremely easy to recommend.
Finally, let me address where this game falls on my Based Morality Scale, which actually makes for surprisingly cheerful reading in Current Year. Due to this being a remake of a 25 year old game, with the original script still intact, you inadvertently end up with some wonderfully countercultural and wholesome writing, making this game easily a +1, and I’d even go as far as handing out a +2 when looking at the sheer amount of things it does right.
This is a game where men are allowed to be men, and women get to be women – where concepts like being “a real man” or “a proper lady” aren’t taboo, but openly acknowledged as legitimate. “Gender neutral writing” is nowhere to be seen – you even see female characters worrying about putting on weight and it being played for laughs, not as an opportunity to decry Muh Unrealistic Beauty Standards. Hell, even the infamous “Now I can never be a bride!” line that wokealizers have declared Jihad against makes it into this game, albeit rephrased – no worries though, because female characters dreaming about getting married is the topic of multiple Private Action scenes!
There are almost too many Based little moments to count – there’s the early-game Priest character being a wholly positive presence (indeed, pretty much all the Old White Male authority figures are portrayed favorably), Celine the hot mage advocating for corporal punishment of misbehaving children, a belief in heaven seeming pretty widespread even among the more “sci-fi” characters, a hyper-advanced civilization’s abolition of the death penalty leading to some major future headaches, at least one character ending delighting Shinzo Abe – so much good stuff! And lest I forget, I counted a grand total of Zero nigger characters, which is the same number of singular theys that I recall coming across.
Obviously, all of this feels remarkably refreshing – like finally getting to breathe in clean mountain air after a lifetime spent in a smog-filled Chinese city – as well as very surprising, seeing how a pure +2 JRPG should pretty much be a physical impossibility these days. Any modern, text-heavy game seems almost GUARANTEED to be at least somewhat compromised by trannylator bullshit, and that’s before getting into the JRPG genre’s long-standing tendency towards gay anti-racist, anti-religion messages (Final Fantasy X being an obvious example), or even more recently, feminism (see Persona 5). Star Ocean: The Second Story R might just be the most *genuinely* wholesome JRPG I’ve ever played, and since the rest the of game on the whole is pretty great as well, it becomes extremely easy to recommend.
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> Hides recent arrest of some pedo bitch in Japan
> Presents me this among results of articles smearing animu and Japan
< By the way, Perps and victims are all niggers.
< Here you have it: NIGGERS FUG CHILDREN!
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> Presents me this among results of articles smearing animu and Japan
< By the way, Perps and victims are all niggers.
< Here you have it: NIGGERS FUG CHILDREN!
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Sweet Baby Inc. called on the man behind 'Sweet Baby Inc detected' to get banned for creating this tracker. Then people dug up old Tweets from Sweet Baby Inc. CEO Kim Belair. She seems kinda racist and misandrist. The tracker then went from 20.000 to over 100.000 followers
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@Hoss @ChristiJunior They're fucked. From now on they will have to sell their services as "We will help you woke your games, but you have to promise not to tell anyone!" Every game developer in the industry now knows that hiring Sweet Baby (or a company like them) will get their game boycotted by the bulk of the US market. It's endgame. Game over. We won.
This is GamerGate done right.
"Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it."
No more "Oh look we're supporting a feminist charity!" or "Oh look, we have niggers and other browns in our ranks!" This is how Gamergate should have worked from DAY ONE. "We are your customers. We have preferences. You appeal to them and you get money. You don't and we will wreck you and you will go broke."
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- High Skill
- Coding, Unity 3D
- Low Skill
- Drawing, Memes
- Best
- To destroy your enemies, to have them driven before you, and to hear the lamnations of their women.
- Worst
- Python
I draw, code, and make memes sometimes.
Joined Mar 2019
