No More Heroes
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high highs but low lows
No more heroes is a suda51 game where you play as a (loser) otaku who is also a hitman and tries to climb the ranks in a hitman organization by killing everyone who is above them. The game is very fun
I heard people complain about vampire survivors saying that it just didn't feel right that it tricked your brain in that way to produce adrenaline and dopamine, same thing was kinda said for balatro, but honestly, no more heroes did the same things.
No more heroes is a power fantasy, you get into a mission, you basically kill everyone in 1-3 slices and it's gory and fast and whenever you kill someone literally a slot machine plays that give you random effect than then allows you to create even more chaos and destruction
However, the bosses are NOT like that and I think they're by far the worst part of the game, bosses are very similar to how bosses are in other games, they're harder than most regular enemies by a mile and you need to think and play more tactically, I did not like having to slow down so much for the bosses, thought it killed the pace
The actual plot is basically nonexistent, there IS a plot dont get me wrong but like, who cares, we're here for the blood
Another complaint I have about the game is that I wish there would have been more variety in the environments and stuff, some levels were very boring, being made of a single reused zone or one that was just a concrete corridor.
Also, you need money to unlock the main missions, and it's very much possible to have made all of the missions and not have enough money to buy the mission + the upgrades, so you do need to farm, that part also sucked
This game is also really funny?, like it's just very silly and doesn't take itself seriously at all and it's just enjoyed it a lot
enjoyed the game, A rank
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HerThey made a movie about character.ai in 2013
This movie is about a guy that goes through a divorce and starts dating a computer OS, as this one can mimic human conversation. The movie takes place in the near future (the futuristic year of 2025, i'm not kidding) and it's actually so fucking good
This is (for me) a GOOD romance movie, in many others that were requested here I complained about how the relationship depicted were toxic or really didn't respect women that much, that there is a kinda like a stereotype of the ideal way of living that it feels most american romances need to end up on, that they rely on third persons adding drama to give the movie a little bit of meat but this movie is absolutely not like that.
This movie presents you with a idea and COMMITS to it, and in the process of telling you the emotionally charged love story they also explore very complex topics and ideas
One of the ideas this movie covers is kinda how we picture romance. When we think of romance we think of this perfect situation where feelings are the only thing that matters and not even geographical location or social standing or a economic situation can set a stop to it, that these are just barriers to be broken, but real life isn't like this
Sure, you may start dating on love alone, but to make that last, that needs a entirerily different set of conditions, specially in a marriage. There are obligations and you both need to agree on a vision for the future and there may need to be sacrifices. In reality, the answer to "would you love me if I were a worm" would be no, because a worm can't offer me what I need, it doesn't matter how much you love the worm
In many ways it's like a long distance relationship, or even something like a discord relationship. You may be happy reading the other person messeges (like the protagonist, who was VERY happy and honestly became a better human being because of it), but you can't really get serious with that person can you?, and if you can't go serious with that person, then you're just playing, but we as humans want to believe we are going serious when we aren't
this is captured on that one scene close not too far into the movie where
the protagonist goes in a date with a real girl, date goes fantastic, but then it just doesn't manifest into anything because the protagonist wasn't really willing to put in the effort to make the relationship work, then he goes home, and talks to the AI in a similar way they did to the girl, but this time, the AI doesn't require the relationship to "work", the AI will be good with or without the guy, they're willing to keep up the RP forever. But I don't think it's that fair to shame the protagonist o nthis, they were in a emotionally weak spot, and then suddenly a voice started tellimg them EXACTLY all what they wanted to hear, because the AI doesn't act like a human being, it acts how we want humans to act, but a real person would NEVER behave in the way it behaves, it's a romanticized version of ourselves.
Not only that but we're in the near future, this society has different ethics, morality and values than us. All of the characters shown in the movie seem like high class individuals too, it's a very different world to the one we live in, and it just so happens that dating an AI seems to be kinda normalized, of course there will be people that will criticize it like we do now internet relationships and stuff but everyone understands this is just something that happens under the society that we live in and how easy it is to fall into that
Now, the movie at a visual level is fucking amazing. The future (again, I remind you, 2025), is shown as very clean, very white, kinda like how we picture modern house but kinda extrapolated to the whole city, it's big and metropolitan but it's quiet. To contrast this, the progagonist wears these bright colored shirts that really contrasts the environments, they use color SO well in this movie
I love this movie placed in S tier
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