lostsilver wrote:
review pokemon scarlet/violet
lucky for you, I HAVE already played it. I have played pokemon since I was a kid so I was interested in playing it
First of all, I played it when it first came in emulator. And my opinion on it are interesting for sure. The most recent pokemon game I had played at that time was omega ruby. So I got surprised by a lot of stuff that got added in the previous games
For me, the game was enjoyable, yeah it didn't look the best, and I don't think I would have paid 60€ for it, but, I got to run around and catch cute pokemons, which was my goal, the story is better than in previous pokemon games IMO, I really liked the switch from saving the world to just running around doing a school project, but it's still not nearly as good as like any rpg on the maerket rn. Normally I don't like open world games, however in pokemon it feels good.
Now, I played the game on release, and so did my friends, the new pokemon region is based on spain, so the hype was massive. We had many irl talks about the game. My friends are HARDCORE pokemon fans, and I just realized they played a LOT differently than how I played it. Like, I discovered this pokemon called "eiscue", I love penguins so I caught one and added it to my team. I was talking to one of my friends about them and they went "oh yeah the abbility of that pokemon is really good", and I realize, that they weren't just catching cute pokemons, but they were metagaming the game and just choosing the best competitibly viable team
for them, they didn't enjoy the game as much, they argued that the game was just not difficult, and that it was a cashgrab, that last part I can understand, it would have been cool to see more developement time on it. Still, many of those issues, mainly with the difficulty thing, I just think they're not in the target demographic for pokemon, and that they could enjoy many other turn based RPGs that do focus more on them. But they don't play turn based rpgs, they play
pokemonSo when I say "oh you shoult totally play chained echoes", which in personal opinion is the best combat i've ever seen in a turn based RPG, they kinda just say "oh cool" and never really do it, even if i'm completely sure they would love chained echoes. This doesn't happen with just pokemon tho, this happen with many franchises made with kids in mind, that you grow up playing this franchise, and then it's hard to move past it. Or not just that, but you're in a community where those franchises are highly rated and it's hard to see past it. This happens with pokemon, this happens with FNAF, this happens with TADC and it happens with many others. In fact I want to make a thread on this phenomenon but in a way that it's not a textwall like this, because I know that the people who read my textwall are not the specific type of people i'm trying to talk about, i'm still thinking on how to do that
It's just more pokemon, it aint getting better, either you adventure past pokemon, or you die in here
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Hydreigon wrote:
Patatitta wrote:
I accept movies, anime, manga, books, comics, anime, light novel, videogames and visual novels
however, if you look at the request tab in the OP, you may see I have alerady like 6 games to play and nothing really else to play, so if you recommend a game, I'm going to take like 5 months to get around to play it
also, for games, I mostly play story based games, so dont recommend stuff like cookie clicker or valorant or magic the gathering
Hmm, alright then, then how bout Chainsaw Man, the anime version since its shorter.
lucky for you I HAVE already read chainsaw man (well i'm not totally caught up, I think like 5 chapters will have come out sinceI last read it, idk if chainsaw is weekly or monthly)
Chainsaw man is my favourite combat shounen, however, i'm not a fan of that genre to begin with, so even if it's my fav I think I gave it a 7 in myanimelist
I think chainsaw man is an fairly interesting manga. I like the main idea of the manga, of this half demon having to fight other half-demons, that cool, the characters itself are also interesting. Now the characters, not the biggest fan of it, I like makima as a character, the way they just lie and do shit and the relationship with the main protagonist, however, I feel that there are many things that they do that seems like they're just trying to bait femdom r34, like that one chapter where they make the main character act like a dog.
However I will give it points in that it is only in certain scenes, so it's not like an ecchi anime or whatever, it's more like made in abyss in anything else
The fight scenes and some of the plot is where I have most of my problems with this manga tho. First of all, the fight scenes are mainly purely fluff, which is just the standard if you're into a combat shounen, but i'm not a fan of combat shounen so for after a while I just kinda speedread the fight scenes because I just didn't call much about them. However, I will admit, the art for the fight scene is good, while most of manga art is standard, in the fight scenes they mostly have these hyperdramatic shots that while not completely unseen has some elements that make it instantly recognisable, thinslike the blood being this purely lienar black lines and being a lot of it while the character walks out in front being a badass
Now, there is a story arc that I do not like, and that is, the gun demon. I'm sorry but just going GUN DEMON WAS IN JAPAN FOR 20 SECOND 50000 DEAD like that's just too fucking much come on, and they jsut beat them in the end. The story isn't really focused on exploring the consequence of those actions or to make really cool plot, they just want to have badass fight scenes, which as I said, I speedread. So for me there really wasn't anything too worth it in this manga other than the start and those aquarium chapters which I thought were very funny.