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nooooooo the tierlist is gone ;-;
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oh my bad did a mistake on the uploadreffty_gag wrote:
nooooooo the tierlist is gone ;-;
Fellow Top Secret enjoyers, everyone knows Airplane but never heard of Top Secret, banger movie.
Mafia is also good from the same guys.
Mafia is also good from the same guys.
I just remember, Postal
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Elite Squad
Good movie
This is a brazilian movie, written by the guy who did city of god. The movie is about the police force in rio de janeiro. It is a very good movie
A lot of the focus on the movie is showing police brutality and trying to find the origins of that problem, while at the same time humanizing the criminals. It raises fairly interesting points, one of it how the methodoloy for doing polcie work is actually not completely unified and that every member can kinda do what they want in their own case. The movie shows this by comparing two very different members of the police force, while they had the same job, they acted in different ways which can create problems.
One character in this movie actually studied law, as they assumed that in order to properly enforce law you need to understand law, something that couldn't be further from the reality, which again shows another big problem in the system, one that has also gone to full swing with the protests in america this last few years, and that is "how the fuck does a lawyer need to study way more than a policeman when they really have the same job of protecting and enforcing the law"
I also found interesting a scene late in the movie that showed a little bit of the internal training of the police, one where they had to form a formation. In the police they basically do military training with a lot of physical punishment and the such, that makes sense for a war, where you go to kill people, but for a cop, it can be a problem, because that type of training makes you apathetic to violence, it normalizes it. In the military is normal to beat each other up, but doing the same thing for the civilian population is very bad
I enjoyed this movie, A rank
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Good movie
This is a brazilian movie, written by the guy who did city of god. The movie is about the police force in rio de janeiro. It is a very good movie
A lot of the focus on the movie is showing police brutality and trying to find the origins of that problem, while at the same time humanizing the criminals. It raises fairly interesting points, one of it how the methodoloy for doing polcie work is actually not completely unified and that every member can kinda do what they want in their own case. The movie shows this by comparing two very different members of the police force, while they had the same job, they acted in different ways which can create problems.
One character in this movie actually studied law, as they assumed that in order to properly enforce law you need to understand law, something that couldn't be further from the reality, which again shows another big problem in the system, one that has also gone to full swing with the protests in america this last few years, and that is "how the fuck does a lawyer need to study way more than a policeman when they really have the same job of protecting and enforcing the law"
I also found interesting a scene late in the movie that showed a little bit of the internal training of the police, one where they had to form a formation. In the police they basically do military training with a lot of physical punishment and the such, that makes sense for a war, where you go to kill people, but for a cop, it can be a problem, because that type of training makes you apathetic to violence, it normalizes it. In the military is normal to beat each other up, but doing the same thing for the civilian population is very bad
I enjoyed this movie, A rank
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damn since when had this thread 20k views 
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Jane Austen’s Mafia!
Another comedy movie by the director of top secret and airplane, a bit worse than those tho
This movie is very much a parody of the godfather, the troubled life of the son of a important mafia family and their eventual ascent to power. The plot itself doesn't really do anything too interesting, it's mainly a absurdist comedy movie with not that much of a meaning behind it, which I can get behind
The actual comedy is fairly different from airplane and top secrets, in many ways it seems more standard, more like what we would start seeing a lot in the early 2000. The comedy in many ways it's a lot more rude and scatological than their previous movies, it also features a lot of references, to the godfather mainly, but there are a few others, like forrest gump, this is funny at the moment but I feel relying on this type of joke makes the movie less unique
When compared to top secret, the difference is quite clear, mafia is quite literally the godfather while top secret is a spy movie, not like a james bond parody.
However, the non scatological non reference jokes are funny, so I still enjoyed watching the movie
In general I enjoyed but eh could have been better, placed in C rank
Another comedy movie by the director of top secret and airplane, a bit worse than those tho
This movie is very much a parody of the godfather, the troubled life of the son of a important mafia family and their eventual ascent to power. The plot itself doesn't really do anything too interesting, it's mainly a absurdist comedy movie with not that much of a meaning behind it, which I can get behind
The actual comedy is fairly different from airplane and top secrets, in many ways it seems more standard, more like what we would start seeing a lot in the early 2000. The comedy in many ways it's a lot more rude and scatological than their previous movies, it also features a lot of references, to the godfather mainly, but there are a few others, like forrest gump, this is funny at the moment but I feel relying on this type of joke makes the movie less unique
When compared to top secret, the difference is quite clear, mafia is quite literally the godfather while top secret is a spy movie, not like a james bond parody.
However, the non scatological non reference jokes are funny, so I still enjoyed watching the movie
In general I enjoyed but eh could have been better, placed in C rank
watch Everything Everywhere All at Once
+1 i love that movieabraker wrote:
watch Everything Everywhere All at Once
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already did will do laterLapizote wrote:
+1 i love that movieabraker wrote:
watch Everything Everywhere All at Once
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Everything Everywhere All At One
just woke up and I watches this movie a while back now sooooo
This movie is about timelines, all the different ones than there are, jumping between universe and universe to achieve a certain goal. The movie is actually very experimental and I really enjoyed it
Concepts of timelines isn't new by any means, however, the way this tackles it feels both the most realistic and most unique. In theory there is a timeline for every single possibility, and that is actually shown in the movie, there are certain universes than doesn't even make sense but that still exist, mainly because if there are infinite timelines, one is bound to be like that, anything that you can imagine, there is a timeline for that
It's actually very emotional which is actually not something you expect reading the movie synopsis or seeing the trailer, and the way the emotional scenes are delivered (the rocks scene), again, really fucking unique. I guess that having seen so much weird stuff upon that point makes you more open to even more weird stuf
I don't know, I really enjoyed it, placed in A rank
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just woke up and I watches this movie a while back now sooooo
This movie is about timelines, all the different ones than there are, jumping between universe and universe to achieve a certain goal. The movie is actually very experimental and I really enjoyed it
Concepts of timelines isn't new by any means, however, the way this tackles it feels both the most realistic and most unique. In theory there is a timeline for every single possibility, and that is actually shown in the movie, there are certain universes than doesn't even make sense but that still exist, mainly because if there are infinite timelines, one is bound to be like that, anything that you can imagine, there is a timeline for that
It's actually very emotional which is actually not something you expect reading the movie synopsis or seeing the trailer, and the way the emotional scenes are delivered (the rocks scene), again, really fucking unique. I guess that having seen so much weird stuff upon that point makes you more open to even more weird stuf
I don't know, I really enjoyed it, placed in A rank
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Read Jin (the manga).
fun fact they initially thought to do a voice over for that scene but then decided against itPatatitta wrote:
and the way the emotional scenes are delivered (the rocks scene), again, really fucking unique.
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yeah without voice acting is WAY betterabraker wrote:
fun fact they initially thought to do a voice over for that scene but then decided against itPatatitta wrote:
and the way the emotional scenes are delivered (the rocks scene), again, really fucking unique.
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please finish the games before requesting, also idk if i'm willing to do castlevania, not exactly narrative drivenxch00F wrote:
any one of the following castlevanias:
dawn of sorrow
portrait of ruin
order of ecclesia
recently picked up the dominus collection and have been playing thru them, interested in what you think
Do Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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actually sure since I know it's like 30 minutes long, will play it later todayRezq Gokou wrote:
Do Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
Can you play the OMORI mod AUTUMN BREAK??
(fall break would have been too harsh due to the original game's plotline)
(fall break would have been too harsh due to the original game's plotline)
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i'm scared of doing mods specially for games like omori because how fandom heavy they are, I am likely to not enjoy it very muchmizu_chuu wrote:
Can you play the OMORI mod AUTUMN BREAK??
(fall break would have been too harsh due to the original game's plotline)
your choice but its a really good mod considering it takes place 3 days before the incident
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dont think I will be covering itmizu_chuu wrote:
your choice but its a really good mod considering it takes place 3 days before the incident
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I've played thru all of them when they came outPatatitta wrote:
please finish the games before requesting, also idk if i'm willing to do castlevania, not exactly narrative drivenxch00F wrote:
any one of the following castlevanias:
dawn of sorrow
portrait of ruin
order of ecclesia
recently picked up the dominus collection and have been playing thru them, interested in what you think
o well
sadPatatitta wrote:
dont think I will be covering itmizu_chuu wrote:
your choice but its a really good mod considering it takes place 3 days before the incident
Living with Sister: Monochrome Fantasy is a sleeper hit you got no idea.
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actually banned from this threadtapperruiii wrote:
Living with Sister: Monochrome Fantasy is a sleeper hit you got no idea.
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milk inside a bag of milk
this is a very short vn about mental health problems, it feels bad to talk about this type of games as they often tend to be very personal and basically biographical skipped most of this games, but I do have to say something about tis, so I will keep this short
there is a voice that talks to this character, this voice is supposed to not be real, the voice is the narrator of the game, it's supposed to represent the protagonist subconcious. However, there is a part in this game where it breaks the fourth wall, probably because the dev thought it was cool, which completely breaks the message of the story because we're real so that means that they're not schizo but that they're actually right which wouldn't make a mental illness so like what the fuck
not placed on tier list
this is a very short vn about mental health problems, it feels bad to talk about this type of games as they often tend to be very personal and basically biographical skipped most of this games, but I do have to say something about tis, so I will keep this short
there is a voice that talks to this character, this voice is supposed to not be real, the voice is the narrator of the game, it's supposed to represent the protagonist subconcious. However, there is a part in this game where it breaks the fourth wall, probably because the dev thought it was cool, which completely breaks the message of the story because we're real so that means that they're not schizo but that they're actually right which wouldn't make a mental illness so like what the fuck
not placed on tier list
"not placed on tier list" 🔫Patatitta wrote:
milk inside a bag of milk
this is a very short vn about mental health problems, it feels bad to talk about this type of games as they often tend to be very personal and basically biographical skipped most of this games, but I do have to say something about tis, so I will keep this short
there is a voice that talks to this character, this voice is supposed to not be real, the voice is the narrator of the game, it's supposed to represent the protagonist subconcious. However, there is a part in this game where it breaks the fourth wall, probably because the dev thought it was cool, which completely breaks the message of the story because we're real so that means that they're not schizo but that they're actually right which wouldn't make a mental illness so like what the fuck
not placed on tier list
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wait, actually cant do this, there is no english/spanish version, it cuts off less than halfway throughKobold84 wrote:
Read Jin (the manga).
I haven't played the game myself and I could see why that breaks the narrative actually. Sometimes 4th wall breaking is actually not really necessary or even break the story like this.Patatitta wrote:
milk inside a bag of milk
this is a very short vn about mental health problems, it feels bad to talk about this type of games as they often tend to be very personal and basically biographical skipped most of this games, but I do have to say something about tis, so I will keep this short
there is a voice that talks to this character, this voice is supposed to not be real, the voice is the narrator of the game, it's supposed to represent the protagonist subconcious. However, there is a part in this game where it breaks the fourth wall, probably because the dev thought it was cool, which completely breaks the message of the story because we're real so that means that they're not schizo but that they're actually right which wouldn't make a mental illness so like what the fuck
not placed on tier list
Maybe read the Team Fortress 2 comic (mainline) since they released the final issue of it quite recently.
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PLEASE play the games you're doing before requesting, it's required for the thread, if I had knows you had not played it I would have denied itRezq Gokou wrote:
I haven't played the game myself and I could see why that breaks the narrative actually. Sometimes 4th wall breaking is actually not really necessary or even break the story like this.Patatitta wrote:
milk inside a bag of milk
this is a very short vn about mental health problems, it feels bad to talk about this type of games as they often tend to be very personal and basically biographical skipped most of this games, but I do have to say something about tis, so I will keep this short
there is a voice that talks to this character, this voice is supposed to not be real, the voice is the narrator of the game, it's supposed to represent the protagonist subconcious. However, there is a part in this game where it breaks the fourth wall, probably because the dev thought it was cool, which completely breaks the message of the story because we're real so that means that they're not schizo but that they're actually right which wouldn't make a mental illness so like what the fuck
not placed on tier list
Maybe read the Team Fortress 2 comic (mainline) since they released the final issue of it quite recently.
also, I already rejected the TF2 comics
sorry, but it was not stated in the original post.Patatitta wrote:
PLEASE play the games you're doing before requesting, it's required for the thread, if I had knows you had not played it I would have denied itRezq Gokou wrote:
I haven't played the game myself and I could see why that breaks the narrative actually. Sometimes 4th wall breaking is actually not really necessary or even break the story like this.Patatitta wrote:
milk inside a bag of milk
this is a very short vn about mental health problems, it feels bad to talk about this type of games as they often tend to be very personal and basically biographical skipped most of this games, but I do have to say something about tis, so I will keep this short
there is a voice that talks to this character, this voice is supposed to not be real, the voice is the narrator of the game, it's supposed to represent the protagonist subconcious. However, there is a part in this game where it breaks the fourth wall, probably because the dev thought it was cool, which completely breaks the message of the story because we're real so that means that they're not schizo but that they're actually right which wouldn't make a mental illness so like what the fuck
not placed on tier list
Maybe read the Team Fortress 2 comic (mainline) since they released the final issue of it quite recently.
also, I already rejected the TF2 comics
Also, may I ask why the TF2 comics got rejected?
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tf2 comics are basically fanservice for the tf2 playerbase, not things that work standaloneRezq Gokou wrote:
sorry, but it was not stated in the original post.Patatitta wrote:
PLEASE play the games you're doing before requesting, it's required for the thread, if I had knows you had not played it I would have denied itRezq Gokou wrote:
I haven't played the game myself and I could see why that breaks the narrative actually. Sometimes 4th wall breaking is actually not really necessary or even break the story like this.Patatitta wrote:
milk inside a bag of milk
this is a very short vn about mental health problems, it feels bad to talk about this type of games as they often tend to be very personal and basically biographical skipped most of this games, but I do have to say something about tis, so I will keep this short
there is a voice that talks to this character, this voice is supposed to not be real, the voice is the narrator of the game, it's supposed to represent the protagonist subconcious. However, there is a part in this game where it breaks the fourth wall, probably because the dev thought it was cool, which completely breaks the message of the story because we're real so that means that they're not schizo but that they're actually right which wouldn't make a mental illness so like what the fuck
not placed on tier list
Maybe read the Team Fortress 2 comic (mainline) since they released the final issue of it quite recently.
also, I already rejected the TF2 comics
Also, may I ask why the TF2 comics got rejected?
Must be due to the copyright issues. If you want, I can get you a totally legit copy of it.Patatitta wrote:
wait, actually cant do this, there is no english/spanish version, it cuts off less than halfway throughKobold84 wrote:
Read Jin (the manga).
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does it have a complete physical release in a language I can undertand that you own that you can digitalize?, also, I don't think it's copyright, I think the scanlator group just died and no one picked the manga up to continue translating itKobold84 wrote:
Must be due to the copyright issues. If you want, I can get you a totally legit copy of it.Patatitta wrote:
wait, actually cant do this, there is no english/spanish version, it cuts off less than halfway throughKobold84 wrote:
Read Jin (the manga).
The manga was officially translated and it's on the creator's patreon in full digital version. I suppose it's also easy to find elsewhere for free as it often happens.Patatitta wrote:
does it have a complete physical release in a language I can undertand that you own that you can digitalize?, also, I don't think it's copyright, I think the scanlator group just died and no one picked the manga up to continue translating itKobold84 wrote:
Must be due to the copyright issues. If you want, I can get you a totally legit copy of it.Patatitta wrote:
wait, actually cant do this, there is no english/spanish version, it cuts off less than halfway throughKobold84 wrote:
Read Jin (the manga).
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Was a little bit of a pain but found it, will readKobold84 wrote:
The manga was officially translated and it's on the creator's patreon in full digital version. I suppose it's also easy to find elsewhere for free as it often happens.Patatitta wrote:
does it have a complete physical release in a language I can undertand that you own that you can digitalize?, also, I don't think it's copyright, I think the scanlator group just died and no one picked the manga up to continue translating itKobold84 wrote:
Must be due to the copyright issues. If you want, I can get you a totally legit copy of it.Patatitta wrote:
wait, actually cant do this, there is no english/spanish version, it cuts off less than halfway throughKobold84 wrote:
Read Jin (the manga).
have you seen https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-8980
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not doing scps[[[[[[ wrote:
have you seen https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-8980
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not doing ecchiReyalp51 wrote:
watch gushing over magical girls
will you do psychological horror (I know you said you won't do horror, but some people don't like horror but like psychological horror) and ARG?
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1- I do this by case by case basis but generally noRezq Gokou wrote:
will you do psychological horror (I know you said you won't do horror, but some people don't like horror but like psychological horror) and ARG?
2- I dislike ARGS, I want things that I can experience for myself, not have to have youtube videos about it.
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shoutout to zachtronics but like i'm ass at puzzle games also it's not a narrative game so I probably wouldn't have much to say so not doing thisz0z wrote:
play opus magnum
what about the mandela catalogue
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youtube horror series with some ARG stuff that is kinda made with the idea of people making "explained" videos on it so yeah not doing thatmizu_chuu wrote:
what about the mandela catalogue
edit: I didn't feel the need to do this as we've gone through 260 things without much problem but given the recent streak of me denying everything I'm going to update the OP to reflect what I accept and what I do not
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deniedxch00F wrote:
can you review the pizza from your local pizza place
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I think you already requested it and I already denied itReyalp51 wrote:
review pineapple on pizza (the game)
its really short
no way wtfPatatitta wrote:
I think you already requested it and I already denied itReyalp51 wrote:
review pineapple on pizza (the game)
its really short
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nvm you didn't, still, deniedReyalp51 wrote:
no way wtfPatatitta wrote:
I think you already requested it and I already denied itReyalp51 wrote:
review pineapple on pizza (the game)
its really short
read Cipher Academy, it's written by the same author as the Monogatari Series. Though I would say it is not as good as Monogatari but still enjoyable. No, it's not ecchi
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that's a low bar since I already didn't vibe with monogatari, tho will probably read it. Is it this one?Rezq Gokou wrote:
read Cipher Academy, it's written by the same author as the Monogatari Series. Though I would say it is not as good as Monogatari but still enjoyable. No, it's not ecchi
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i'm in for a bad time
yes. I mean it's very different from how Monogatari was written.Patatitta wrote:
that's a low bar since I already didn't vibe with monogatari, tho will probably read it. Is it this one?Rezq Gokou wrote:
read Cipher Academy, it's written by the same author as the Monogatari Series. Though I would say it is not as good as Monogatari but still enjoyable. No, it's not ecchi
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i'm in for a bad time
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will readRezq Gokou wrote:
yes. I mean it's very different from how Monogatari was written.Patatitta wrote:
that's a low bar since I already didn't vibe with monogatari, tho will probably read it. Is it this one?Rezq Gokou wrote:
read Cipher Academy, it's written by the same author as the Monogatari Series. Though I would say it is not as good as Monogatari but still enjoyable. No, it's not ecchi
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i'm in for a bad time
Daybreak on hyperion webnovel at https://samaran-daybreak.com/ go to page 11 for start webnovel or go to daybreak on hyperion at the top of the page
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this seems like it's ongoing right?tapperruiii wrote:
Daybreak on hyperion webnovel at https://samaran-daybreak.com/ go to page 11 for start webnovel or go to daybreak on hyperion at the top of the page
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Jin
Took a while but finished it
This is a medical drama where a doctor from the year 2000 (modern day at the time of writing the manga) got transported into the 19th century with their current medical knowledge, becoming a miracle worker and changing history in the process.
It's a cool concept, I haven't read much medical dramas, (honestly I think this is the first one (no monster does not count)), and I think the whole medical aspect to it was really well done. I don't know the accuracy of the actual medicine shown in the manga, but it does feels tense when it needs to be, repulsive when it needs to be, and generally seems to treat medicine with a lot of respect
This manga also explores how modern medicine clashes with some old cultural values and how in many ways that culture was toxic to medical advances. It also goes in depth about the invention and general spread of penicilin
The art is pretty solid, specially for a manga that started serialization in the year 2000, I think it holds up pretty well.
My problems with the manga arise with everything not relating to medicine. While there is a overarching plot of understanding time travel and stuff, the pacing on it is very bad and it isn't nearly as explored or treated with the same respect that medicine is shown in the manga.
It's also a 20 volume manga, it's pretty lenghthy, and it ends up following your classical arc structure, where there are different self contained stories that while carry some connection with each other and character growth and stuff they're mostly self-contained. It's only on the ending of each arc that the overarching plot really advances
So yeah, amazing as a medical drama but don't know if I would recommend it outside that placed in B tier
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will update OP tomorrow i'm sleepy
Took a while but finished it
This is a medical drama where a doctor from the year 2000 (modern day at the time of writing the manga) got transported into the 19th century with their current medical knowledge, becoming a miracle worker and changing history in the process.
It's a cool concept, I haven't read much medical dramas, (honestly I think this is the first one (no monster does not count)), and I think the whole medical aspect to it was really well done. I don't know the accuracy of the actual medicine shown in the manga, but it does feels tense when it needs to be, repulsive when it needs to be, and generally seems to treat medicine with a lot of respect
This manga also explores how modern medicine clashes with some old cultural values and how in many ways that culture was toxic to medical advances. It also goes in depth about the invention and general spread of penicilin
The art is pretty solid, specially for a manga that started serialization in the year 2000, I think it holds up pretty well.
My problems with the manga arise with everything not relating to medicine. While there is a overarching plot of understanding time travel and stuff, the pacing on it is very bad and it isn't nearly as explored or treated with the same respect that medicine is shown in the manga.
It's also a 20 volume manga, it's pretty lenghthy, and it ends up following your classical arc structure, where there are different self contained stories that while carry some connection with each other and character growth and stuff they're mostly self-contained. It's only on the ending of each arc that the overarching plot really advances
So yeah, amazing as a medical drama but don't know if I would recommend it outside that placed in B tier
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will update OP tomorrow i'm sleepy
did you ever get around to watching the look back movie? i know it's available in streaming services now and i remember you were anticipating that one when I had you review the manga
(definitely did not ask after seeing it was a category winner in letterboxd)
(definitely did not ask after seeing it was a category winner in letterboxd)
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yes I watched it, my thoughts aren't that different from the manga so idk if want to make another post on it, generally it fits better in a movie format than in a manga but I don't agree that it's that peakLapizote wrote:
did you ever get around to watching the look back movie? i know it's available in streaming services now and i remember you were anticipating that one when I had you review the manga
(definitely did not ask after seeing it was a category winner in letterboxd)
short movies ?
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didn't see it sorry, haven't watched any but I don't see anything inherently wrong so yeah submitreffty_gag wrote:
short movies ?
cipher academy
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Cipher academy is a manga by the writer of monogatari about the cipher academy, a japense high school where they teach cryptology and only cryptology and there is also a massive bounty hidden somewhere in the school.
with the previous manga, jin, I praised that they treat medicine with a lot of respect, with cipher academy, I can't say the same. We need to understand that cipher academy is basically a battle shounen, most of the manga is just different people fighting in "Cipher Battles". To add insult to injury it was published on shounen jump weekly. So while they mention cryptology terms, they don't really mean anything, it's not remotely accurate to reality, and in many ways it just works as a magic system for the fights.
This magic system isn't really consistent either, there aren't really any underlying rules to any of the fights, as each battle often has a gimmick attached which makes every fight completely unique, I consider this to be a bad thing, mainly, because someone winning or losing always feel like complete random bs, if anything can happen at any moment, there isn't really any tension, a character may be losing but you know the writer can just write whatever in that suddenly makes them win, it feels cheap
With most high school anime or manga, while there are a lot of people per class, they only really write 4-5 characters, rest are just in the background. Cipher academy goes "what if we tried writing EVERY SINGLE STUDENT", so like there are a gazillion characters and you forget who half of them are halfway through and no one really gets that much developement
Honestly I feel this may not be as much of a problem if you're reading it as it's being released and then you go to the discord for the manga and then just discuss that chapter for a whole week like it's most common in most battle shounens but binging it was pain
the character designs are cool tho
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i mean, do you review short film/movies ? If yes, i would req onePatatitta wrote:
didn't see it sorry, haven't watched any but I don't see anything inherently wrong so yeah submitreffty_gag wrote:
short movies ?
he does review short film/moviesPatatitta wrote:
I don't see anything inherently wrong so yeah submit
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I have not watched short movies before but you can request short moviesreffty_gag wrote:
i mean, do you review short film/movies ? If yes, i would req onePatatitta wrote:
didn't see it sorry, haven't watched any but I don't see anything inherently wrong so yeah submitreffty_gag wrote:
short movies ?
i wanna req Ghost Summer (anime short film/movies, 40 minute duration, 2021)
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do you mean summer ghost?reffty_gag wrote:
i wanna req Ghost Summer (anime short film/movies, 40 minute duration, 2021)
oh yes, srry for my dumb brainPatatitta wrote:
do you mean summer ghost?reffty_gag wrote:
i wanna req Ghost Summer (anime short film/movies, 40 minute duration, 2021)
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yeah sure will watchreffty_gag wrote:
oh yes, srry for my dumb brainPatatitta wrote:
do you mean summer ghost?reffty_gag wrote:
i wanna req Ghost Summer (anime short film/movies, 40 minute duration, 2021)
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Summer Ghost
Pretty good
40 minute long movie about a group of 3 students that summons a ghost, this ghost is actually like really nice and just chats with them, the fun part is that the ghost only shows up for people who are close to death in one way or another, this happens at like minute 5/10 of the movie, the rest of the movie is exploring the circumstances of each one of the characters and seeing everything unfold
the art is BEAUTIFUL, it looks fucking amazing and it has some really smart shots, having some more abstract scenes and generally angles and shots you don't see in most anime.
For it's short length, it's a surprisingly well fleshed out story, each character personality and sitation are distinct, and I think the movie does a really good job at showing how each character masks their troubles, their general though process, and why they decide to interact with the other characters the way they do.
There are basically 4 character totals, the main 3 and the ghost, which helps focus their short length better.
There are many scenes that are string together but that aren't necessarily happening at the same place or even at the same time, but they work because there is a emotional string attaching all of those scenes, when multiple "unrelated" scenes are connected is because they're in a similar stage of character arcs.
The anime flips between two different color paletes, a darker blue with motives of water, and a really bright and lively yellow with movites of the sky during a sunrise, the sad and more depressing scenes are blue in color, while when there is hope they use yellow, there is actually a scene later on the movie that straight up showcases this division and dynamic, it's on a box due to spoilers
it's a really good movie, I really enjoyed it, placed in A rank.
Pretty good
40 minute long movie about a group of 3 students that summons a ghost, this ghost is actually like really nice and just chats with them, the fun part is that the ghost only shows up for people who are close to death in one way or another, this happens at like minute 5/10 of the movie, the rest of the movie is exploring the circumstances of each one of the characters and seeing everything unfold
the art is BEAUTIFUL, it looks fucking amazing and it has some really smart shots, having some more abstract scenes and generally angles and shots you don't see in most anime.
For it's short length, it's a surprisingly well fleshed out story, each character personality and sitation are distinct, and I think the movie does a really good job at showing how each character masks their troubles, their general though process, and why they decide to interact with the other characters the way they do.
There are basically 4 character totals, the main 3 and the ghost, which helps focus their short length better.
There are many scenes that are string together but that aren't necessarily happening at the same place or even at the same time, but they work because there is a emotional string attaching all of those scenes, when multiple "unrelated" scenes are connected is because they're in a similar stage of character arcs.
The anime flips between two different color paletes, a darker blue with motives of water, and a really bright and lively yellow with movites of the sky during a sunrise, the sad and more depressing scenes are blue in color, while when there is hope they use yellow, there is actually a scene later on the movie that straight up showcases this division and dynamic, it's on a box due to spoilers
it's a really good movie, I really enjoyed it, placed in A rank.
I did recommend you Rejected some time ago and you did watch it, it is a short movie.Patatitta wrote:
I have not watched short movies before but you can request short moviesreffty_gag wrote:
i mean, do you review short film/movies ? If yes, i would req onePatatitta wrote:
didn't see it sorry, haven't watched any but I don't see anything inherently wrong so yeah submitreffty_gag wrote:
short movies ?
Analyze how this thread is still somehow active and what are the key points that you think make a thread successful
Although in the 2k posts that it has, I won't be surprised if somebody already asked this
Although in the 2k posts that it has, I won't be surprised if somebody already asked this
as much as i would love to read that he probably wouldn't do that because its technically not media; patatitta doesn't review concepts like that, he just reviews media. he might do it in a seperate thread tho
i know i'm not patatitta but i think its to do with the fact that people receive something back from patatitta and that's what makes it so active; you get to make this guy sit through something and he'll write a whole review on it for FREE btw, and this cycle of giving him something and making him review it can actually loop on forever considering the fact that there's infinite amounts of media for him to review.
so basically, this thread could technically live on forever as long as patatita keeps reviewing stuff and as long as media is still being produced, and that's what has made it survive to 2,000 posts
i know i'm not patatitta but i think its to do with the fact that people receive something back from patatitta and that's what makes it so active; you get to make this guy sit through something and he'll write a whole review on it for FREE btw, and this cycle of giving him something and making him review it can actually loop on forever considering the fact that there's infinite amounts of media for him to review.
so basically, this thread could technically live on forever as long as patatita keeps reviewing stuff and as long as media is still being produced, and that's what has made it survive to 2,000 posts
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oh yeah forgotNuuskamuikkunen wrote:
I did recommend you Rejected some time ago and you did watch it, it is a short movie.Patatitta wrote:
I have not watched short movies before but you can request short moviesreffty_gag wrote:
i mean, do you review short film/movies ? If yes, i would req onePatatitta wrote:
didn't see it sorry, haven't watched any but I don't see anything inherently wrong so yeah submitreffty_gag wrote:
short movies ?
also yeah what sametdze says is true, this thread is alive because I never abandoned the thread. There are many threads that emulated this concept but they all gave up very quickly (except dm for mutual that lasted slightly longer), if they kept their promises those pages would still be front page
it's a lot of work but personally I think it's worth it because forcing myself to take recommendations from strangers on the internet really forces me out of my comfort zone
i fear these could be plot-light suggestions, so i don't know if they'll be valid, but i'll leave one of them here anyway, and any that don't apply can prompt me to send the next. i don't know why i was sitting on them, i guess i just didn't think they'd be worthwhile
+ ace combat 4: shattered skies
+ ace combat 4: shattered skies
Review Sora no Woto.
Topic Starter
I already did 0 and it didn't exactly fit also I didn't exactly like it so I don't think i'm playing more ace combatsAchromalia wrote:
i fear these could be plot-light suggestions, so i don't know if they'll be valid, but i'll leave one of them here anyway, and any that don't apply can prompt me to send the next. i don't know why i was sitting on them, i guess i just didn't think they'd be worthwhile
+ ace combat 4: shattered skies
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Review Sora no Woto.
i've already seen sora no woto, and I actually have a fair ammount to say about it
I watched this anime because it's actually based on the city of cuenca, spain
when I discovered this, it was wild, you can ask any spanish person ever, I don't think any of them would choose cuenca to set a anime in, it's one of those city where it's kinda common to look down upon it and make jokes about it?, not to say it isn't pretty or a good place to live, I do think it actually fits surprisingly well into the anime and not only in a visual level
also, before going into the actual anime, this is probably not something you feel when you live in america or whatever plce that has a lot of representation in foreign media, seeing your own city/close to your own city be represented in anime or whatever is actually like really fucking cool and special, that itself gives the anime points
Sora no woto is a slice of life anime, it's a CGDCT about millitary girls kinda just making camp in cuenca and doing some small scale operations in there. I think the first half or so of it is really solid. Cuenca is actually a fantastic place to set a story like this in, as it's a very calm city with very cool architecture.
The problem I have with this anime is that it fails to commit to being a slice of life, it feels scared of being one. They try to add a lot of lore and drama and I just don't think it works out that well, specially at the end when they in troduce a villain whose defeat marks the end of the anime
I'm not ashamed of being the #1 fan of CGDCT anime, so I don't want my anime to be be ashamed of being one. It could also just be lazy writting or not knowing how to acutally write a slice of life anime. By trying to create tension or whatever you're demolishing the atmosphere that it has, and for it a iyashikei, that healing aura IS the selling point of the anime
I'm not saying iyashike anime can't have plots or complex stories, not at all, tsukumizu yuu exists and pulls it off excelently, but the difference between the drama in girls last tour and in here is that in girls last tour it's not intrusive to the atmosphere, in fact, the message of the plot is amplified with the atmosphere, but in sora no woto it constantly makes design and plot choices that while it would have worked very well in any other anime it just doesn't land well in this genre
for as much as I love that it's set on cuenca, I have to put it in C tier.
Read Michel Foucaults "The History of Sexualitu" volume 1: an introduction
(You can find a pdf online probably)
(You can find a pdf online probably)
Topic Starter
1- never understimate my ability to get things without paying for themAshton wrote:
Read Michel Foucaults "The History of Sexualitu" volume 1: an introduction
(You can find a pdf online probably)
2- I don't think I want to cover that on the thread, it is probably interesting and stuff but may be too far removed from the idea of this thread
Is it the sexuality part or the theory part of it that you don't want to review?
Topic Starter
the type of things I cover are like games or anime or fantasy novels or whatever, this instead is a study, the sexuality is not the part that ticks me off, it's just that this isn't something I have much expertise in talking or is generally something i'm that interested in, it's like if you told me to talk about nietzsche or camus or whoever, yeah there is a lot of meat there but it's just not the same as analyzing slice of life anime which is what I actually enjoyAshton wrote:
Is it the sexuality part or the theory part of it that you don't want to review?
play Chrono Trigger, I know it takes longer than 15 hours but can you make an exception? It's such a good game.Patatitta wrote:
the type of things I cover are like games or anime or fantasy novels or whatever, this instead is a study, the sexuality is not the part that ticks me off, it's just that this isn't something I have much expertise in talking or is generally something i'm that interested in, it's like if you told me to talk about nietzsche or camus or whoever, yeah there is a lot of meat there but it's just not the same as analyzing slice of life anime which is what I actually enjoyAshton wrote:
Is it the sexuality part or the theory part of it that you don't want to review?
understoodPatatitta wrote:
I already did 0 and it didn't exactly fit also I didn't exactly like it so I don't think i'm playing more ace combatsAchromalia wrote:
i fear these could be plot-light suggestions, so i don't know if they'll be valid, but i'll leave one of them here anyway, and any that don't apply can prompt me to send the next. i don't know why i was sitting on them, i guess i just didn't think they'd be worthwhile
+ ace combat 4: shattered skies
mm, let me try other things i vaguely remember
+ "my happy marriage"
Topic Starter
already played chrono trigger (DS port), you can actually see the movies/anime/games i've already played on my signature.Ashton wrote:
play Chrono Trigger, I know it takes longer than 15 hours but can you make an exception?Patatitta wrote:
the type of things I cover are like games or anime or fantasy novels or whatever, this instead is a study, the sexuality is not the part that ticks me off, it's just that this isn't something I have much expertise in talking or is generally something i'm that interested in, it's like if you told me to talk about nietzsche or camus or whoever, yeah there is a lot of meat there but it's just not the same as analyzing slice of life anime which is what I actually enjoyAshton wrote:
Is it the sexuality part or the theory part of it that you don't want to review?
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chrono trigger is a RPG released by square in 1995, it's about time travel and stuff, I genearlly had a good time with it but I can't say I agree with the 4.5/5 rating it has on backloggd.
While it is a RPG, it doesn't have the most complex or profound plot, the characters are well written but I think the setting of time travels is missing on nuance. Time travels are a notoriously hard genre to write a story in and for it to work, mainly because of plot holes and generally just trying to have the story make sense, while chrono trigger doesn't have any holes, it also doens't really explore the setings very much, in many ways their depiction of the past feel stereotypical at best and boring at worst.
I know i'm asking for too much but I didn't really see that cultural shock traveling across time, I want for it to do spicy things with their time travel, not just go "oh this age has dinosaurs".
The combat uses the square ATB system, I do not like ATB. In ATB combat the turn order is actually based on real time, each character has a meter that charges up passively and when it fills up they can make an attack. This is the same combay system final fantasy has.
ATB combat is made with the idea of responding to the criticism of classic turn based combat being boring and slow. I personally heavily disagree with this notion, I fucking love spending 20 minutes per turn just thinking (shoutout to chained echoes, but we need to understand the era it was created in.
Nowadays, clasic and complex turn based combat is not exactly common, instead, the dominant combat system nowadays is real time action. uit bacck in the day, turn based combat WAS dominant, mainly because it was actually really easy to implement and required very little resources, so it was a perfect fit for this more primitive age of videogames
the problem with ATB is that you're sacrificing the complexity of the combat just to have more "dynamic" fights, the combats are made so you can think of the right move and win on the fly, it doesn't require you to stop and think, you will say "oh but you can set it so it stops time after the bar fills up in the setting", but that doesn't change the fact that the inclusion of wait style ATB is more an accesibility mechanic than anything else, the combat is still made so you can win without thinking too hard, and having the ability to wait and think doesn't change that
Also I played sea of stars recently which is directly inspired on chrono trigger and thought it was a lot better ngl, still have some big flaws IMO but it's a step up
so in the end, it's a game with a kinda average plot and kinda average combat, it's serviceable but far from what I would consider peak, placed in C tier, will update OP tomorrow since i'm currently sleepy.
already linking the very legal website lmao brave, I can do it yeah, will watch, will update op tomorrow as I said thoAchromalia wrote:
understoodPatatitta wrote:
I already did 0 and it didn't exactly fit also I didn't exactly like it so I don't think i'm playing more ace combatsAchromalia wrote:
i fear these could be plot-light suggestions, so i don't know if they'll be valid, but i'll leave one of them here anyway, and any that don't apply can prompt me to send the next. i don't know why i was sitting on them, i guess i just didn't think they'd be worthwhile
+ ace combat 4: shattered skies
mm, let me try other things i vaguely remember
+ "my happy marriage"
ohPatatitta wrote:
already linking the very legal website lmao brave, I can do it yeah, will watch, will update op tomorrow as I said thoAchromalia wrote:
mm, let me try other things i vaguely remember
+ "my happy marriage"
oh right
so
i forgot that that was what that was
I actually agree with your analysis on combat. I too prefer turn based combat as opposed to ATB, maybe it's because I get stressed out with ATB?? (Xenoblade would be a perfect franchise for me if the combat was turn based)Patatitta wrote:
already played chrono trigger (DS port), you can actually see the movies/anime/games i've already played on my signature.Ashton wrote:
play Chrono Trigger, I know it takes longer than 15 hours but can you make an exception?Patatitta wrote:
the type of things I cover are like games or anime or fantasy novels or whatever, this instead is a study, the sexuality is not the part that ticks me off, it's just that this isn't something I have much expertise in talking or is generally something i'm that interested in, it's like if you told me to talk about nietzsche or camus or whoever, yeah there is a lot of meat there but it's just not the same as analyzing slice of life anime which is what I actually enjoyAshton wrote:
Is it the sexuality part or the theory part of it that you don't want to review?
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chrono trigger is a RPG released by square in 1995, it's about time travel and stuff, I genearlly had a good time with it but I can't say I agree with the 4.5/5 rating it has on backloggd.
While it is a RPG, it doesn't have the most complex or profound plot, the characters are well written but I think the setting of time travels is missing on nuance. Time travels are a notoriously hard genre to write a story in and for it to work, mainly because of plot holes and generally just trying to have the story make sense, while chrono trigger doesn't have any holes, it also doens't really explore the setings very much, in many ways their depiction of the past feel stereotypical at best and boring at worst.
I know i'm asking for too much but I didn't really see that cultural shock traveling across time, I want for it to do spicy things with their time travel, not just go "oh this age has dinosaurs".
The combat uses the square ATB system, I do not like ATB. In ATB combat the turn order is actually based on real time, each character has a meter that charges up passively and when it fills up they can make an attack. This is the same combay system final fantasy has.
ATB combat is made with the idea of responding to the criticism of classic turn based combat being boring and slow. I personally heavily disagree with this notion, I fucking love spending 20 minutes per turn just thinking (shoutout to chained echoes, but we need to understand the era it was created in.
Nowadays, clasic and complex turn based combat is not exactly common, instead, the dominant combat system nowadays is real time action. uit bacck in the day, turn based combat WAS dominant, mainly because it was actually really easy to implement and required very little resources, so it was a perfect fit for this more primitive age of videogames
the problem with ATB is that you're sacrificing the complexity of the combat just to have more "dynamic" fights, the combats are made so you can think of the right move and win on the fly, it doesn't require you to stop and think, you will say "oh but you can set it so it stops time after the bar fills up in the setting", but that doesn't change the fact that the inclusion of wait style ATB is more an accesibility mechanic than anything else, the combat is still made so you can win without thinking too hard, and having the ability to wait and think doesn't change that
Also I played sea of stars recently which is directly inspired on chrono trigger and thought it was a lot better ngl, still have some big flaws IMO but it's a step up
so in the end, it's a game with a kinda average plot and kinda average combat, it's serviceable but far from what I would consider peak, placed in C tier, will update OP tomorrow since i'm currently sleepy.already linking the very legal website lmao brave, I can do it yeah, will watch, will update op tomorrow as I said thoAchromalia wrote:
understoodPatatitta wrote:
I already did 0 and it didn't exactly fit also I didn't exactly like it so I don't think i'm playing more ace combatsAchromalia wrote:
i fear these could be plot-light suggestions, so i don't know if they'll be valid, but i'll leave one of them here anyway, and any that don't apply can prompt me to send the next. i don't know why i was sitting on them, i guess i just didn't think they'd be worthwhile
+ ace combat 4: shattered skies
mm, let me try other things i vaguely remember
+ "my happy marriage"
I guess we will agree to disagree on everything else though.
Anyways, am I allowed to suggest another game then? Or am I limited to one recommendation?
Topic Starter
you can request as many things as you want, even at once if you want toAshton wrote:
I actually agree with your analysis on combat. I too prefer turn based combat as opposed to ATB, maybe it's because I get stressed out with ATB?? (Xenoblade would be a perfect franchise for me if the combat was turn based)Patatitta wrote:
already played chrono trigger (DS port), you can actually see the movies/anime/games i've already played on my signature.Ashton wrote:
play Chrono Trigger, I know it takes longer than 15 hours but can you make an exception?Patatitta wrote:
the type of things I cover are like games or anime or fantasy novels or whatever, this instead is a study, the sexuality is not the part that ticks me off, it's just that this isn't something I have much expertise in talking or is generally something i'm that interested in, it's like if you told me to talk about nietzsche or camus or whoever, yeah there is a lot of meat there but it's just not the same as analyzing slice of life anime which is what I actually enjoyAshton wrote:
Is it the sexuality part or the theory part of it that you don't want to review?
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chrono trigger is a RPG released by square in 1995, it's about time travel and stuff, I genearlly had a good time with it but I can't say I agree with the 4.5/5 rating it has on backloggd.
While it is a RPG, it doesn't have the most complex or profound plot, the characters are well written but I think the setting of time travels is missing on nuance. Time travels are a notoriously hard genre to write a story in and for it to work, mainly because of plot holes and generally just trying to have the story make sense, while chrono trigger doesn't have any holes, it also doens't really explore the setings very much, in many ways their depiction of the past feel stereotypical at best and boring at worst.
I know i'm asking for too much but I didn't really see that cultural shock traveling across time, I want for it to do spicy things with their time travel, not just go "oh this age has dinosaurs".
The combat uses the square ATB system, I do not like ATB. In ATB combat the turn order is actually based on real time, each character has a meter that charges up passively and when it fills up they can make an attack. This is the same combay system final fantasy has.
ATB combat is made with the idea of responding to the criticism of classic turn based combat being boring and slow. I personally heavily disagree with this notion, I fucking love spending 20 minutes per turn just thinking (shoutout to chained echoes, but we need to understand the era it was created in.
Nowadays, clasic and complex turn based combat is not exactly common, instead, the dominant combat system nowadays is real time action. uit bacck in the day, turn based combat WAS dominant, mainly because it was actually really easy to implement and required very little resources, so it was a perfect fit for this more primitive age of videogames
the problem with ATB is that you're sacrificing the complexity of the combat just to have more "dynamic" fights, the combats are made so you can think of the right move and win on the fly, it doesn't require you to stop and think, you will say "oh but you can set it so it stops time after the bar fills up in the setting", but that doesn't change the fact that the inclusion of wait style ATB is more an accesibility mechanic than anything else, the combat is still made so you can win without thinking too hard, and having the ability to wait and think doesn't change that
Also I played sea of stars recently which is directly inspired on chrono trigger and thought it was a lot better ngl, still have some big flaws IMO but it's a step up
so in the end, it's a game with a kinda average plot and kinda average combat, it's serviceable but far from what I would consider peak, placed in C tier, will update OP tomorrow since i'm currently sleepy.already linking the very legal website lmao brave, I can do it yeah, will watch, will update op tomorrow as I said thoAchromalia wrote:
understoodPatatitta wrote:
I already did 0 and it didn't exactly fit also I didn't exactly like it so I don't think i'm playing more ace combatsAchromalia wrote:
i fear these could be plot-light suggestions, so i don't know if they'll be valid, but i'll leave one of them here anyway, and any that don't apply can prompt me to send the next. i don't know why i was sitting on them, i guess i just didn't think they'd be worthwhile
+ ace combat 4: shattered skies
mm, let me try other things i vaguely remember
+ "my happy marriage"
I guess we will agree to disagree on everything else though.
Anyways, am I allowed to suggest another game then? Or am I limited to one recommendation?
Too bad you didn't enjoy sora no woto as much, it's a great piece. Have you ever been to Cuenca at all? I traveled there from Madrid out of curiosity after seeing it in the anime. Totally improved my impressions of the city vibes.
Topic Starter
never went to cuenca myself sadlyKobold84 wrote:
Too bad you didn't enjoy sora no woto as much, it's a great piece. Have you ever been to Cuenca at all? I traveled there from Madrid out of curiosity after seeing it in the anime. Totally improved my impressions of the city vibes.
Topic Starter
My Happy Marriage
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uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
This anime is about a girl who lives in a prestigious family in 19th century japan who is absued by the rest of her family due to her not having super cool supernatural powers that is forced into a arranged marriage with another family who does treat her right.
When I talked about her I mentioned about how that movie was in many way a analysis and showcase about the way we speak and percieve romance in the current era vs what romance really is, about how we have this perception that love will always win at the end and that any hurdles can be overcome. This anime is the exact opposite, it's romance purely as a resource, as a way to distribute responsability and work in a household
There is no love in a arranged marriage, in the anme they were already engaged before they met each other for the first time, however, they are depicted as the perfect couple. And while it does make sense in the anime why the girl is happy, I very much don't really agree with the points it's trying to make or the general philosohpy behind it.
The perception of romance in 19th century japan and the perception of romance today are entirerily different. In that era arranged marriages and stuff were commonplace, but that doesn't mean it's really right. In this case the female protagonist had been severily abused in her household, so when she moves out due to her marriage she becomes happy and "falls in love" with the hot male protagonist.
But the male protagonist isn't exactly the best husband, he just treats her with slight respect. We as the viewer percieve them as a really good guy because it's presented that way, but we only percieve him as a good guy because we have been anchored to compare it to her previous living situation, but if you look at it more coldly, during the anime there is never anything shown that could suggest that the two protagonist could even be remotely compatible with each other, there isn't any romance by our modern definition
in reality what is happening is that you're taking a traumatized and depressed girl, getting her out of that bad situation and then especting sex in return and for her to take the role of a wife in 19th century japan which again wasn't the best place to be in since women rights weren't really as of yet
while yes, it does make sense that she is happy and whatever, I don't think any of the actions that the two characters made where illogical or plot holes, but I don't like how the romance is depicted, the anime never really tries to get you to think about the nature of the relationship or whatever, they're just expecting you for to see that, go "how cute!" and accept it without really thinking too much about it
also, spoilers, but major delabreaker for me. This anime falls into the trope of "you know not being special or super cool is fine as we can expect everyone in society to be like that" only for that character to suddently gain the super cool special powers which kinda undermines the point of "being normal is fine" because you say that but then you're NOT willing to actually write a character like that or for the character to be happy while they're normal and I just despise that
also the family of the protagonist feels a little bit too antagonistic?, like yes I get that they're supposed to be abusive and stuff but I think it reaches a point where it's so abusive and antagonistic you don't even believe something like that could happen IRL which kinda just leads to you not taking it that seriously, it removes a lot of the emotional weight it could have had
Also, this anime really isn't a romance at all, the relationship is kinda set in stone from the start and as we've said there isn't anything shown that we could consider romance today, it's more about the relationship and the marriage being attacked from different angles and sources and that whole plot with the super cool special powers
I didn't enjoy this anime very much and I think it has pretty terrible messeging, D rank.
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uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
This anime is about a girl who lives in a prestigious family in 19th century japan who is absued by the rest of her family due to her not having super cool supernatural powers that is forced into a arranged marriage with another family who does treat her right.
When I talked about her I mentioned about how that movie was in many way a analysis and showcase about the way we speak and percieve romance in the current era vs what romance really is, about how we have this perception that love will always win at the end and that any hurdles can be overcome. This anime is the exact opposite, it's romance purely as a resource, as a way to distribute responsability and work in a household
There is no love in a arranged marriage, in the anme they were already engaged before they met each other for the first time, however, they are depicted as the perfect couple. And while it does make sense in the anime why the girl is happy, I very much don't really agree with the points it's trying to make or the general philosohpy behind it.
The perception of romance in 19th century japan and the perception of romance today are entirerily different. In that era arranged marriages and stuff were commonplace, but that doesn't mean it's really right. In this case the female protagonist had been severily abused in her household, so when she moves out due to her marriage she becomes happy and "falls in love" with the hot male protagonist.
But the male protagonist isn't exactly the best husband, he just treats her with slight respect. We as the viewer percieve them as a really good guy because it's presented that way, but we only percieve him as a good guy because we have been anchored to compare it to her previous living situation, but if you look at it more coldly, during the anime there is never anything shown that could suggest that the two protagonist could even be remotely compatible with each other, there isn't any romance by our modern definition
in reality what is happening is that you're taking a traumatized and depressed girl, getting her out of that bad situation and then especting sex in return and for her to take the role of a wife in 19th century japan which again wasn't the best place to be in since women rights weren't really as of yet
while yes, it does make sense that she is happy and whatever, I don't think any of the actions that the two characters made where illogical or plot holes, but I don't like how the romance is depicted, the anime never really tries to get you to think about the nature of the relationship or whatever, they're just expecting you for to see that, go "how cute!" and accept it without really thinking too much about it
also, spoilers, but major delabreaker for me. This anime falls into the trope of "you know not being special or super cool is fine as we can expect everyone in society to be like that" only for that character to suddently gain the super cool special powers which kinda undermines the point of "being normal is fine" because you say that but then you're NOT willing to actually write a character like that or for the character to be happy while they're normal and I just despise that
also the family of the protagonist feels a little bit too antagonistic?, like yes I get that they're supposed to be abusive and stuff but I think it reaches a point where it's so abusive and antagonistic you don't even believe something like that could happen IRL which kinda just leads to you not taking it that seriously, it removes a lot of the emotional weight it could have had
Also, this anime really isn't a romance at all, the relationship is kinda set in stone from the start and as we've said there isn't anything shown that we could consider romance today, it's more about the relationship and the marriage being attacked from different angles and sources and that whole plot with the super cool special powers
I didn't enjoy this anime very much and I think it has pretty terrible messeging, D rank.