Aura/Moom

just cancel out of anything. This will eventually cost a resource cuz that bit at the end is a smidge ridiculous

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the instructor was stunned by my use of music, which I judiciously did not tell her was taken from a website where people turned final fantasy songs into midis

saying this as a kid who somehow got away with reproducing the entirety of Pygmalion in RM95 for a school project as a kid

Someone has to have made a Columbo game in rpg maker at some point in history right

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Character limits are not an explanation for this density of grammatical and tone issues.

Imo the fact that val could simply wish it away at the end - but is only rewarded with the ability to do so for his adherence to the authority of the mana goddess - kind of says it all, yeah? Every villain is someone who subverts authority, Val's virtue is framed as going beyond the call of loyalty

ggggggiven this is a game where the ghost of an older hero comes and lectures you a bunch.....

Burning inside with furious science
Burning inside with furious science
Chaaaadley

Sure, but it's made explicit again and again that his sin was not simply Taking his just desserts but instead seeking better from the mana goddess in any capacity, and they use it to draw DIRECT parallels with our protag's aborted attempt to subvert the pilgrimage

I think this will happen but only once he merges with weiss or something

Haha, I guess for me the stuff i remember and appreciate the most is not the weird fakeouty nomura classics around core plot points but the entirely new stuff. I appreciate it far more when the series departs entirely from ff7's original narrative than when it's toying with the idea of it

I baaaasically stand by what I wrote on my backloggd lol

too bad that's not, uh, interesting as a plot twist in the context of that game

i'll give Visions this I guess, it's the only game in the "doomed pilgrimage" genre I can ever recall playing where the big twist is that the pilgrimage was exactly what it was stated on the tin from the start and sacrificing yourself WAS a good idea

that game very specifically left me holding my breath that the 7r trilogy was going to repeat its plot points in a much longer format and, well, I sure do keep wondering

seeing some discussion of ff7 rebirth's ending has me thinking about visions of mana, a game that asks the question of "is it right to try and defy fate" and comes away with the answer "not only is it wrong, it's selfish and self-destructive to subvert authority, even if it has hurt you deeply"

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my hat for a game that takes this ambiguity and makes it a core part of the design

i'll roll the bones on this hill. i'll toss the ivories. i'll tumble the shakers. i'll lay out the tombstones. i'll shoot the craps. i'll dig a hole and lay in it and stare at oblivion

the single feature that determines whether I buy a run based roguelike centered around dice is whether they use the singluar "die" correctly. If you ask me to "select a dice" i instantly uninstall your demo. I will die on this hill

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lurking in the back alleys and absorbing your house's Visual Energy. emerging from the shadows to Consume the aesthetics and vanishing. you call the private investigator and he shakes his head. seen it a million times, maam. stolen vibes. this interplay of light and shadow will never be the same

without even realizing!

I could do a whole post that's just direct-translation cliches lol

"Incredibly stiff and with a consistent tone of unedited direct machine translation" is how I'd rate it, bluntly

I'll be honest, I think even if the segagaga team hadn't admitted to using machine translation people would have figured it out pretty fast based on what I saw in the first 15 mins of play

the trick is to not care if you miss a post haha