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Reyalp51
reading this makes me sad because of what konami did later on the series
mgs2 is a game of all time i can say
reffty_gag
review Xenogears, NOW
Topic Starter
Patatitta

reffty_gag wrote:

review Xenogears, NOW
bitch I already made you wait because you were so fucking impatient and here you are again requesting that I review a fucking 60 hour long JRPG in this momen

Denied for being too long and also double denied for not knowing how to wait
reffty_gag

Patatitta wrote:

reffty_gag wrote:

review Xenogears, NOW
bitch I already made you wait because you were so fucking impatient and here you are again requesting that I review a fucking 60 hour long JRPG in this momen

Denied for being too long and also double denied for not knowing how to wait
man, im just saying "NOW". And also i know how to wait, and im srry if im like being impatient (even im not). ok ?
Topic Starter
Patatitta

reffty_gag wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

reffty_gag wrote:

review Xenogears, NOW
bitch I already made you wait because you were so fucking impatient and here you are again requesting that I review a fucking 60 hour long JRPG in this momen

Denied for being too long and also double denied for not knowing how to wait
man, im just saying "NOW". And also i know how to wait, and im srry if im like being impatient (even im not). ok ?
why the fuck would you type NOW. if you don't actually care about when I do it

+ the game is still too long so still denied
reffty_gag

Patatitta wrote:

reffty_gag wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

reffty_gag wrote:

review Xenogears, NOW
bitch I already made you wait because you were so fucking impatient and here you are again requesting that I review a fucking 60 hour long JRPG in this momen

Denied for being too long and also double denied for not knowing how to wait
man, im just saying "NOW". And also i know how to wait, and im srry if im like being impatient (even im not). ok ?
why the fuck would you type NOW. if you don't actually care about when I do it

+ the game is still too long so still denied
ok
Duck o-o
100% the witcher 3 NOW
MangaGrumpy

Dementedduck wrote:

100% the witcher 3 NOW
honestly pata finna start banning people if this keeps up imo
lostsilver
can you do gravity falls if you havent already?
you dont have to if you dont want to
sametdze
can you review the "Meet The" series? this one is actually serious
Topic Starter
Patatitta

Dementedduck wrote:

100% the witcher 3 NOW
denied


lostsilver wrote:

can you do gravity falls if you havent already?
you dont have to if you dont want to
sure


sametdze wrote:

can you review the "Meet The" series? this one is actually serious
what is that?
sametdze

Patatitta wrote:

what is that?
its those tf2 animated skits. all of them are only a few minutes and they're easily accessible on youtube. just search up "meet the tf2" and you'll get a whole playlist with all of the videos
Jangsoodlor
watch all episodes of skibidi toilet

just kidding pls review kaguya sama, either the manga the anime is fine.
Topic Starter
Patatitta

Jangsoodlor wrote:

watch all episodes of skibidi toilet

just kidding pls review kaguya sama, either the manga the anime is fine.
I watched the first 2 seasons of kaguya-sama when it was airing and then read the rest of the manga, and honestly, i'm conflicted about it (I watched this so long ago so my descriptions may not be the most accurate)

The premise of the anime is that there are these two smart students that love each other but don't want to confess, and they try to get the other person to confess. Most scenes are divided into hyper psychological battles that parodies other animes like death note were the protagonist just has an internal monologue that lasts the entire chapter

and well, the first 2 seasons are fine, they're funny at times even if they don't have that much depth (with the exception of ishigami which they do dirty later on the anime) but it doesn't need to have depth, since it's just a dumb funny comedy

what happens after is what really annoys me about the anime

so, there is a confession, and you thought the anime would end up there, since that was the entire point of the anime, however it continues for an entire school year. The entire psychological battle thing is dropped, and the comedy relies on the secondary characters like chika, which i'm sorry but were not as fun as the actual battles.

They also try to push the anime into a more romance/drama style and in my personal opinion, it just fails, all of the plots aren't really that interesting and it just feels worse than everything that came before it

however, I remember that in season 2, there was actually a really good plot surrounding ishigami, in the middle of this comedy anime, we see the entire backstory and character development of this random side character, and well, it's funny because it's unexpected, this is not how this genre of anime works, and it's so surprising it catches your attention, the story is also short, and when it ends, chika brushes it off and we continue with the anime, this was a good little arc, and again, the drama segment works because it's in the context of a comedy anime

so whenever you try to do that same arc, but longer, while also dropping the comedy. I'm sorry but the kaguya family drama didn't hit nearly as hard as the ishigami backstory


This anime feels like it also uses hype as a weapon, (this is the same mangaka as oshi no ko), it's set in the modern era, like, literally the same year as it was being released. It takes advantage of a lot of current events and trends, there are vtubers and youtube in this anime, I think this has to be one of the first anime to even reference vtubers, not only that, but this anime is available everywhere in every single language. This anime was meant to be seen as it was being released and just be part of that cultural phenomenon.

Let's not forget about chika dance, a special ending that seems to basically be created to be a fun cutesy dance that would spread over the entire internet, and I have to say, it worked

as I said, the mangaka later made oshi no ko which was just this turned up to 11, the entire story is about a popular topic (vtubers) but it also has reincarnation, a catchy opening and the first episode is twice as long, also it's from this popular mangaka so be sure to watch it!!!, and well, it worked for chapter 1 and then just fell off lmao since there really wasn't any meat to it

I really don't know, placed in b tier since I liked it at the beginning but with the passage of time and the next parts being released it just fell off

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Uzumaki

I've heard a lot about junji ito, however, I had always brushed it off because it was not my genre, it's in fact my brother's favourite author so I kinda picked this up with curiosity, it gave me a good excuse to actually get out of my comfort zone and read it (which is the entire point of this thread btw!)

... I expected it to be different?

The entire manga is focused on showing you all of this horrors beyond human comprehension and cool art, and while I agree that in paper they're scary and the art is really good, I feel the manga really moves too fast to actually feel fear, I don't care about a character dying in a very awful way if I don't have an emotional connection to the characters

Not only that, but some parts are just accidently funny??????, like when the hair starts forming spiral and then she finds the other girl who also has spirals in her hair and then just start fighting with their hairs like it's a shounen

The art is really good tho, and junji ito recognises this and just leans HARD into it. The entire plot of the manga is the spiral, the shape. And well, the art is completely fulled of spirals and this has consequences on the story, the art is also made to be more realistic, kinda reminds me to how someone like naoki would draw characters (which after finishing the manga I noticed that it was published in the same magazine as naoki), it's more cinematic so it's closer to how an horror movie or whatever would actually be.

Junji ito understands that if you're taking half of the runtime of your manga to include horrors beyond your comprehension, those horrors must directly advance the story. Everything is plot relevant and in really cryptic ways too. There is this ambiguity and mystery on the story because it's both scarier to not know what is going on exactly and because the horrors beyond human comprehension are cryptic by themselves, if you're trying to convey a story without using words in certain segments, that story can't be extremely specific or it will be really hard to actually understand.

but yeah, I just couldn't get into it lmao

c tier

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haven't started the anime or metal gear solid


nothing else to read
Reyalp51
Oshi no ko is not about vtubers
Have we seen the same show?
Topic Starter
Patatitta

Reyalp51 wrote:

Oshi no ko is not about vtubers
Have we seen the same show?
expressed myself wrong, it's about idol and idol culture which was the thing that was actually on the rise and they made official vtubers about it and shit, this is what no proof-reading does to you lmao

also vtubers ARE referenced in oshi no ko
Reyalp51
Yeah oshi no mid cant compare itself with the gigachad "my dad is the queen of vtubers"
Ymir

Reyalp51 wrote:

oshi no mid
well said
Topic Starter
Patatitta

Reyalp51 wrote:

Yeah oshi no mid cant compare itself with the gigachad "my dad is the queen of vtubers"
is it better than Vtuber Confucius tho
sametdze
you arent doing the meet the series?
Topic Starter
Patatitta

sametdze wrote:

you arent doing the meet the series?
oh didn't see the response, my bad, but yeah that just looks like marketing more than a narrative thing so denied
Hydreigon

Patatitta wrote:

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Uzumaki
As a guy who has read like 90% of Junji ito's manga's


Yeah all are not that heavy into the story, most of the short stories are just concepts and like "what if" scenario's of spooky stuff happening and while terrifying and cool by concept and has fantastic art, the characters and sorta of plot is meh

And while Uzumaki is more into the plot and is one of the longer ones, the story isnt that great and kinda gets not that interesting for the guys there, but more curious on how the heck the village will all roll up in the end.

Really kinda knew this was not your thing and unfortunately, this is considered as one the best or better Junji ito mangas
Though some of the other story are still worth a try due to the cool concept and art.


so yea


also will still watch the anime of it once it comes out
burgernfat
1984
Topic Starter
Patatitta

burgernfat wrote:

1984
omg keep politics out of my thread!!111!1 these WOKE sjws sabotaging my thread,,,,,,,,,,,,, how darre tyhe,,,,,,,, pronoum fries,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

in all seriousness, have you read the book or are you suggesting it because you know of the book?
burgernfat

Patatitta wrote:

burgernfat wrote:

1984
omg keep politics out of my thread!!111!1 these WOKE sjws sabotaging my thread,,,,,,,,,,,,, how darre tyhe,,,,,,,, pronoum fries,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

in all seriousness, have you read the book or are you suggesting it because you know of the book?
i have only heard of it, have no real idea what the actual story is
Topic Starter
Patatitta

burgernfat wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

burgernfat wrote:

1984
omg keep politics out of my thread!!111!1 these WOKE sjws sabotaging my thread,,,,,,,,,,,,, how darre tyhe,,,,,,,, pronoum fries,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

in all seriousness, have you read the book or are you suggesting it because you know of the book?
i have only heard of it, have no real idea what the actual story is
if you haven't read it, denied
z0z
maybe you can take up my request if there's no other requests?
Corne2Plum3
Cars 2
Lapizote

Patatitta wrote:

burgernfat wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

burgernfat wrote:

1984
omg keep politics out of my thread!!111!1 these WOKE sjws sabotaging my thread,,,,,,,,,,,,, how darre tyhe,,,,,,,, pronoum fries,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

in all seriousness, have you read the book or are you suggesting it because you know of the book?
i have only heard of it, have no real idea what the actual story is
if you haven't read it, denied
i've read the book, may i suggest it?

alternatively there's the movie adaptation (which was... released in 1984 kek)
Topic Starter
Patatitta

z0z wrote:

maybe you can take up my request if there's no other requests?
nah for videogames I do have requests still


Corne2Plum3 wrote:

Cars 2
why, denied


Lapizote wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

burgernfat wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

burgernfat wrote:

1984
omg keep politics out of my thread!!111!1 these WOKE sjws sabotaging my thread,,,,,,,,,,,,, how darre tyhe,,,,,,,, pronoum fries,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

in all seriousness, have you read the book or are you suggesting it because you know of the book?
i have only heard of it, have no real idea what the actual story is
if you haven't read it, denied
i've read the book, may i suggest it?

alternatively there's the movie adaptation (which was... released in 1984 kek)
idk I just don't think I could really say anything that hasn't been said before
sametdze
damn these days patatitta's gotten alot stricter with what he reviews, at least thats what it feels like

please review the book "two can play at that game"
Topic Starter
Patatitta

sametdze wrote:

damn these days patatitta's gotten alot stricter with what he reviews, at least thats what it feels like

please review the book "two can play at that game"
I mean, I don't want people just suggesting things for the sake of suggesting, if you don't really care about it yourself, don't make me do it

also, can you link the book?
Hydreigon

Corne2Plum3 wrote:

Cars 2
bro, that's the worst one even
sametdze

Patatitta wrote:

sametdze wrote:

damn these days patatitta's gotten alot stricter with what he reviews, at least thats what it feels like

please review the book "two can play at that game"
I mean, I don't want people just suggesting things for the sake of suggesting, if you don't really care about it yourself, don't make me do it

also, can you link the book?
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/61841856
Topic Starter
Patatitta

sametdze wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

sametdze wrote:

damn these days patatitta's gotten alot stricter with what he reviews, at least thats what it feels like

please review the book "two can play at that game"
I mean, I don't want people just suggesting things for the sake of suggesting, if you don't really care about it yourself, don't make me do it

also, can you link the book?
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/61841856
have you read it yourself?, didn't expect you to be into yaoi lmao
sametdze

Patatitta wrote:

sametdze wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

sametdze wrote:

damn these days patatitta's gotten alot stricter with what he reviews, at least thats what it feels like

please review the book "two can play at that game"
I mean, I don't want people just suggesting things for the sake of suggesting, if you don't really care about it yourself, don't make me do it

also, can you link the book?
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/61841856
have you read it yourself?, didn't expect you to be into yaoi lmao
one of the library teachers recommended it, and yes i did read it, was not a bad book, but i was giggling my ass off sometimes
Topic Starter
Patatitta

sametdze wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

sametdze wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

sametdze wrote:

damn these days patatitta's gotten alot stricter with what he reviews, at least thats what it feels like

please review the book "two can play at that game"
I mean, I don't want people just suggesting things for the sake of suggesting, if you don't really care about it yourself, don't make me do it

also, can you link the book?
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/61841856
have you read it yourself?, didn't expect you to be into yaoi lmao
one of the library teachers recommended it, and yes i did read it, was not a bad book, but i was giggling my ass off sometimes
accepted then
Karmine
Fujoshi sametdze?
sametdze

Karmine wrote:

Fujoshi sametdze?
since when was i a woman?
Topic Starter
Patatitta

sametdze wrote:

Karmine wrote:

Fujoshi sametdze?
since when was i a woman?
yeah correct term is fundashi smh karmine go back to studying
Karmine

Patatitta wrote:

sametdze wrote:

Karmine wrote:

Fujoshi sametdze?
since when was i a woman?
yeah correct term is fundashi smh karmine go back to studying
Sorry potato-senpai.
MangaGrumpy
Bump
Topic Starter
Patatitta

MaxIsABigKaiju wrote:

Bump
no need to bump, whenever I finish any of those, I will post here, bumping it in the process
Kobold84
Review tasogareboshi no Sui to Neri.
Topic Starter
Patatitta

Kobold84 wrote:

Review tasogareboshi no Sui to Neri.
i'm actually on a quest to read as many comic cune manga as I can so this actually works really well for me lmao
Topic Starter
Patatitta
hyouka:

slice of life/mistery anime which is pretty good if I said so myself

the plot is that there is this high school student who is very lazy but he's pretty good at solving misteries so his classmates from the club kinda ask him to solve shit

first of all, due to this being a regular slice of life on a regular school, all of the mistery are overall simpler things, stuff like "hey I saw this weird thing at school, can you try to find out what it is?", the actual pull of the mistery is trying to solve it, not so much the history implications or the drama surrounding it, which often happens in anime misteries (i'm not saying this as something negative, this is one of my fav genres lol)

the actual misteries are pretty convoluted and pretty hard to figure out unless you're paying REALLY close attention to everything, which to be fair, I didn't, I kinda just chilled with it and went like "woah" when the solution was revealed

this led to an amazing subversion of the genre in what I think is by far the best arc on the anime, the movie mistery. The plot is that the film club was making a movie but the writer got sick and they need someone to try to solve the mistery so that they can finish recording the film, they do all the typical stuff and get to the conclusion, you heard the explanation and go like "oh yeah that makes total sense", every character accepts it, they go "oh wow you're very smart" and then just move on

and then it's revealed that they were actually just wrong, but due to the actual reputation of the main character and how convoluted and out there the explanation was, everyone just trusted him, and now the characters must face the consequences of being wrong. I think that was fucking amazing since it's not something that really happens in this genre


That is another thing I really enjoyed about this anime and that is, all of the social interaction between the characters. There is a big focus on the psichology of the characters, the pressure that it's put on the main character, the reputation, the fame of the club, etc. And again, for a genre that mainly focuses on all of the clever logic and more mental side of things, also having a good ammount of social stuff is great

animation is excelent too didn't mention it

placed in A tier


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haven't started book and i'm still very early in metal gear, been focusing on other stuff

next: re:zero
Topic Starter
Patatitta
Two Can Play That Game (Book) (Requested by sametdze)

skipped due to me not being able to find a pdf


Tasogareboshi no Sui to Neri:

Slice of life manga about a girl and a weird outwordly creature just chilling and being cute, my favourite genre

I don't really have much to say about this manga, it doesn't really to do anything too ambitious, all of what this manga tries has alread been done by mangas such as girls last tour, shuumatsu touring or rojica to rakkasei, still, it is pretty cute and enjoyable to read


placed in b tier

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nothing else to read

started re:zero, so far i'm not liking it
still playing mgs2
sametdze
how patatitta feels after he wasnt able to pirate something





could you at least review the blurb
Topic Starter
Patatitta
there is nothing I can really say about a blurb really
sametdze
damn
Topic Starter
Patatitta
re:zero

this fucking sucks ass (watched only season 1)


so this is a power fantasy isekai anime where a guy gets transported to another world and whenever he dies in that world, he resurrects at a "checkpoint", so kinda like groundhog day in that sense

The anime tries to express how being reincarnated into another world is not a good thing, stuff like not being able to read because the language is different or how his money isn't useful (But hey, he still talks the same langauge and everyone else and have cool magical powers that also like only 1% of the population has so yeah we love consistency!!!)

I don't think the anime does a good job at this at all, mainly because all of the problems that subaru faces aren't because of the world itself, but because he gets himself into those problems

So in reality this anime mainly works as a power fantasy, seeing someone that you can relate to (at least during the beginning) struggle and fail at something until they finally become strong and defeat the evil bad guy and get all of the women

thing is, there is nothing I hate more in media that seeing the character you hate the most succeed and for that to be depicted in a good way (like if a villain who is supposed to be evil wins, that's badass, but if the protagonist who is supposed to be good ends up being an asshole and then wins, that is when it feels very bad), and subaru is just the biggest example of this

subaru is a complete and total asshole, he just does whatever he wants, making everyone life worse, and all out of his own ego. And no, he isn't redeemed by the end of it. Also, every line that he spats is just cringe, as he always talks in anime/videogame terms and it's just awful

placed in D tier

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made some progress on mgs2

next: Mob Psycho 100
Reyalp51
mgs2 is the best metal gear game period

we dont talk about the gameplay
Topic Starter
Patatitta

Reyalp51 wrote:

mgs2 is the best metal gear game period

we dont talk about the gameplay
... that's the fun part, there is NO gameplay!!!!

but yeah so far it's better than mgs1 and overall really liking it
Karmine

Patatitta wrote:

Reyalp51 wrote:

mgs2 is the best metal gear game period

we dont talk about the gameplay
... that's the fun part, there is NO gameplay!!!!

but yeah so far it's better than mgs1 and overall really liking it
Kojima game.
Jangsoodlor
watch nisekoi
Topic Starter
Patatitta

Jangsoodlor wrote:

watch nisekoi
sure


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Metal Gear Solid 2

like the first one but better, and even more political which is sick I hope more games weren't afraid to be political

This game is considered to be one of the best games ever made, to that I disagree, but I agree it's pretty good overall

Compared to the first one, the gameplay is slightly better but still mostly ass, there is backtracking and the pc port sucks ass and I had to install mods for it in order to run properly and whatever. The story is way better

The story starts with snake doing cool shit because the first section of the game worked as a demo for the game, so yeah, the first part only serves as a tutorial and as marketing, the level is small, it avoids the pitfalls of the actual full game (such as backtracking) and shows unique interactions (like throwing someone overboard) that really aren't a thing in the actual game

The story main focus are politics and conspiracy, it takes advantage of the current political situation of the world to actually tell the story, it's not coincidence that the first boss in the game, in the demo, has a russian accent. Just by knowing that this is a game about spionage and that character portrayed as evil is russian, the story tells itself

Another example of this is the reveal of the "patriots", a group that is above the government and had the government as a puppet, saying both sides of the political spectrum are the same thing, and the ones actually running the world are often less known, for example, CEOS of oil companies and that everyone has fell for their trick, again, kojima doesn't really need to explain shit with this, everyone knows what the concept is and it allows for better storytelling later on. You assume you alraedy know the situation, so when the reveal at the end of the happens, that the patriots were dead for over 100 years, it hits harder. This also reinforces the themes of propaganda the game has, no one is inmune to it, and you fell for it.

During that segment of the game, a lot of meta elements are used, which were very new at the time. The game over screen pops up over and over again even if you haven't failed for example. This kinda breaks the barrier between game and reality, makes you feel less safe. After all of that happens, whenever the speech happens, you're pay closer attenetion, the line between game and reality has been distorted, so you hear more closely at about what the game has to say and relate it to the real world more than you were already doing.

The topic of propaganda comes in over and over again, in this last arc of the story involves an AI, which tells you, that in the future (so modern day), the best way of censorship would be propaganda. If you censor something, you're giving more attention to it, however if you create a context for it, you can turn that story in whatever way it suits you, and it's a lot harder for people to notice that the narrative is being distorted.
,

also, this month was released only 1 month after 9/11, so sadly, there wasn't enough time for kojima to develop a game tackling the war on terror (honestly, if 9/11 had happened before MGS1 released that game would be way better lmao)

This game has a lot more depth and complexity but tbh I'm kinda tired and I'm not going to write a 20 page document of all the themes and implications of mgs2, point is, lots of politics, which is good.


placed in A tier

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haven't started mob psycho

next: not requested but i'm playing mgs3 anyways
Reyalp51

Patatitta wrote:

it takes advantage of the current political situation of the world to actually tell the story
crazy thing is that this game is from 2001
Nuuskamuikkunen
I just noticed you actually put Skelter Heaven in the tier list
BluePyTheDeer_
Let's see what @Patatitta is planning for his president time
MangaGrumpy
Guilty Gear Strive
Topic Starter
Patatitta

MaxIsABigKaiju wrote:

Guilty Gear Strive
not a narrative game, so denied
igorsprite
play darkwood
Topic Starter
Patatitta

igorsprite wrote:

play darkwood
too long
MangaGrumpy

Patatitta wrote:

MaxIsABigKaiju wrote:

Guilty Gear Strive
not a narrative game, so denied
Well, there is a story mode, as far as I know, have not played it yet
Polyspora
Play songs of syx
lostsilver
i dont wanna sound stupid but i have a questions bc of palatitta's post where he said he was gonna play mgs3
does mgs3 mean "metal gear solid 3"? im just asking
Topic Starter
Patatitta

MaxIsABigKaiju wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

MaxIsABigKaiju wrote:

Guilty Gear Strive
not a narrative game, so denied
Well, there is a story mode, as far as I know, have not played it yet
still not a narrative game



Polyspora wrote:

Play songs of syx
not narrative + way too long


lostsilver wrote:

i dont wanna sound stupid but i have a questions bc of palatitta's post where he said he was gonna play mgs3
does mgs3 mean "metal gear solid 3"? im just asking
MGS3 is Metal Gear Solid 3 yes
Reyalp51
I GIVE MY LIFE
NOT FOR HONOR
BUT FOR YOU
lostsilver

Patatitta wrote:

lostsilver wrote:

i dont wanna sound stupid but i have a questions bc of palatitta's post where he said he was gonna play mgs3
does mgs3 mean "metal gear solid 3"? im just asking
MGS3 is Metal Gear Solid 3 yes
oki good to know
MangaGrumpy

Patatitta wrote:

MaxIsABigKaiju wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

MaxIsABigKaiju wrote:

Guilty Gear Strive
not a narrative game, so denied
Well, there is a story mode, as far as I know, have not played it yet
still not a narrative game
1: Screw you
2: When reviewing a video game, you should look at how fun the gameplay is, not the story, most games aren’t even played for story dummy
Topic Starter
Patatitta

MaxIsABigKaiju wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

MaxIsABigKaiju wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

MaxIsABigKaiju wrote:

Guilty Gear Strive
not a narrative game, so denied
Well, there is a story mode, as far as I know, have not played it yet
still not a narrative game
1: Screw you
2: When reviewing a video game, you should look at how fun the gameplay is, not the story, most games aren’t even played for story dummy
the fact that most games are played for fun or whatever doesn't stop me from wanting to play narrative games
B0ii

MaxIsABigKaiju wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

MaxIsABigKaiju wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

MaxIsABigKaiju wrote:

Guilty Gear Strive
not a narrative game, so denied
Well, there is a story mode, as far as I know, have not played it yet
still not a narrative game
1: Screw you
2: When reviewing a video game, you should look at how fun the gameplay is, not the story, most games aren’t even played for story dummy
cry about it
MangaGrumpy

B0ii wrote:

MaxIsABigKaiju wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

MaxIsABigKaiju wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

MaxIsABigKaiju wrote:

Guilty Gear Strive
not a narrative game, so denied
Well, there is a story mode, as far as I know, have not played it yet
still not a narrative game
1: Screw you
2: When reviewing a video game, you should look at how fun the gameplay is, not the story, most games aren’t even played for story dummy
cry about it
Meh + you weren’t even involved in this conversation + who are you talking to?
Jonarwhal
Milt lol
My favorite musical

Omg i just googled milt it’s so much worse than i would have guessed
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Patatitta

Jonarwhal wrote:

Milt lol
My favorite musical

Omg i just googled milt it’s so much worse than i would have guessed
I can't seem to find it, can you give a link to it?
Reyalp51
review lisa the painful and joyful
free on epicgames rn
Topic Starter
Patatitta

Reyalp51 wrote:

review lisa the painful and joyful
free on epicgames rn
you absolute FOOL, I already started playing them before you said this, get #OWNED
Reyalp51

Patatitta wrote:

Reyalp51 wrote:

review lisa the painful and joyful
free on epicgames rn
you absolute FOOL, I already started playing them before you said this, get #OWNED
damn

Jonarwhal

Patatitta wrote:

Jonarwhal wrote:

Milt lol
My favorite musical

Omg i just googled milt it’s so much worse than i would have guessed
I can't seem to find it, can you give a link to it?
oh i just saw that hamilton's cover is cropped and it says milt now
MangaGrumpy

Patatitta wrote:

MaxIsABigKaiju wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

MaxIsABigKaiju wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

MaxIsABigKaiju wrote:

Guilty Gear Strive
not a narrative game, so denied
Well, there is a story mode, as far as I know, have not played it yet
still not a narrative game
1: Screw you
2: When reviewing a video game, you should look at how fun the gameplay is, not the story, most games aren’t even played for story dummy
the fact that most games are played for fun or whatever doesn't stop me from wanting to play narrative games
Coward
Topic Starter
Patatitta

Jonarwhal wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

Jonarwhal wrote:

Milt lol
My favorite musical

Omg i just googled milt it’s so much worse than i would have guessed
I can't seem to find it, can you give a link to it?
oh i just saw that hamilton's cover is cropped and it says milt now
oh shit hahahahaha
Jonarwhal

Patatitta wrote:

Jonarwhal wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

Jonarwhal wrote:

Milt lol
My favorite musical

Omg i just googled milt it’s so much worse than i would have guessed
I can't seem to find it, can you give a link to it?
oh i just saw that hamilton's cover is cropped and it says milt now
oh shit hahahahaha
good morning
Topic Starter
Patatitta

Jonarwhal wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

Jonarwhal wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

Jonarwhal wrote:

Milt lol
My favorite musical

Omg i just googled milt it’s so much worse than i would have guessed
I can't seem to find it, can you give a link to it?
oh i just saw that hamilton's cover is cropped and it says milt now
oh shit hahahahaha
good morning
Nuuskamuikkunen
Topic Starter
Patatitta
Mob Psycho 100 (all 3 seasons)

Coming of age anime mixed with a shounen.

Mob Psycho 100 is about a guy who is really dumb and also has super cool psychic powers and works in an agency of exorcism under a boss who doesn't have psychic powers but he has a lot of charisma so he convinces everyone that he does.

This anime is made by the same creator of one punch man, but unlike one punch man, this never derails into an actual serious anime, this stays mostly as a gag shounen all the way through, and that is good.

There really isn't much that this anime does that other anime doesn't, it's all pretty standard, the only thing that I could really point out is the meter that fills up over episodes, which builds up hype for the season finale

I enjoyed it

placed in b tier

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next: Ford v Ferrari
still playing MGS3/lisa
BluePyTheDeer_
hello
Topic Starter
Patatitta

BluePyTheDeer_ wrote:

hello
hey
B0ii

Patatitta wrote:

BluePyTheDeer_ wrote:

hello
hey
, the
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Patatitta
Ford v Ferrari

American movie about cars because yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh carts sport america yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh (jk)

In all seriousness, this movie isn't really particullary ambitious or anything, it's a movie made to be enjoyable, to profit on a certain audience (nascar fans), and maybe give a little information on the origin of a certain series of racecars

It has a tried and true structure, it has a lot of drama however none of it is particullary high stakes or too stressful to the viewer, the cinematography and sounds deisgn is good, you can really hear the engines of the cars and stuff, and the entire final race is honestly coreographed like it was the final fight scene of another movie

This format kinda guarantees the movie will be good (as long as they don't fumble the execution, which they didn't do), but it also creates a glass ceiling, it's enjoyable, but unless you're REALLY into the topic at hand beforehand, no one is really going to consider it their favourite movie, it's just a very safe movie in all fronts

Placed in B tier

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next: ef - a tale of memories

still playng MGS3 and Lisa
Topic Starter
Patatitta
Lisa: The Painful

I'm mixed about this game

for context, I had a lot of people talk to me about lisa over the years, more now these last few days since it became free on epic. I initiall tried playing when I was 12 but bounced away from it for obvious reasons

I ended up enjoying the game, but man, I do think this game a couple of MASSIVE flaws, the story and theme are fine, my problems are on the level design and the combat

My problem with the game can be summarized in a single moment. I was in a cave, I reach the end of the cave, the exit is blocked, I'm halfway through the game, I remember a moment like this before in the game where I exited the cave and I got ambushed. I was like, not this time, I open my inventory, I search for the quick travel item, and... it isn't there. No narrative reason, no warning, not consistent with the rest of the game. I exit the cave, I get ambushed, next scene I look at my inventory, the quick travel item has reappeared.

There are a lot of situations on the game where you know something is going to happen, you have a way to avoid it, but the game just REFUSES to let you do it. And whenever that is tied to a serious story moment, it just devalues the emotional impact of that moment. If my character is forced to do something awful, I want that action to feel like the only option, to be morally grey, not seeing a way I can avoid it, for the game to limit me to take the awful action. That just felt dumb

Some story options ended up also felt like a bit of a scam. In two parts of the game you're faced with losing party members or an arm. I chose to lose party memebers both times. However, with time I realized that what I did was pointless since all the OP skills DIDN'T require of any arms, so I was like, this was objectively the wrong choice, which sucked ass

Another thing that annoyed me is the fact that there are illusory walls with often no indication, I was literally crashing into every wall to see if it was fake or not, and some of them were, but damn, it was annoying.

The combat is too RNG heavy, some enemies have just instakill attacks that if they use you basically lose the fight and have to restart, so you just have to pray they don't use it. The fact that XP cant overflow into the next level is one of the worst videogame mechanics I've seen ever

However, even with all of those problems, the game is still really original at times, and it's still enjoyable, so placed in B tier

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Still beating MGS3, will play lisa the joyful.
BluePyTheDeer_
@Patatitta, write an entire paragraph in Spanish.
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Patatitta

BluePyTheDeer_ wrote:

@Patatitta, write an entire paragraph in Spanish.
why the fuck are you obsessed with this (+ the lisa thing I actually wrote it in spanish first to send it to someone on discord)

lisa es un juego de todos los tiempos, lo que es la temática, historia, y parte de la comedia, toda esa parte es buena, pero lo que es el tema de diseño de nivel y combate, en mi opinión dejan de desear, y la verdad que quitan parte del impacto de la historia

Durante todo el juego me he sentido extremadamente limitado en todos los sentidos, creo que el ejemplo que mejor muestra esto, es en una parte, que te metes a una cueva y la parte final esta bloqueada. Ya iba sobre la mitad del juego, por lo que ya sabía como funcionaba lisa. Dije, voy a salir fuera, y me van a pegar una paliza y cosas malas, por lo que voy a ser inteligente, voy a usar la llave del camión para hacer viaje rápido y salvarme de la situación, pero resulta que MAGICAMENTE, ese item desaparece del inventario en esa escena, y estas forzado a comerte la emboscada si o si

Entiendo que es necesario que esos eventos ocurran para que la historia progrese de la forma que tiene que suceder, pero en ese caso, no me des una herramienta que me permita evitar ciertas situaciones para luego no dejarme usarlas cuando de verdad sirven. En todo caso añade una logica a nivel narrativo de porque no puedo usar cierta cosa en cierta escena, de vez de quitármelo del inventario sin explicacion. Esta NO era una escena de flashback ni nada de por el estilo.

Otras partes son iguales, había una parte que estaba pasando entre edificio y edificio aprovechando agujeros de la pared y esas cosas, y en una casa vi una ventana rota, la cual era del tamaño suficiente para cruzar, y no había rasgos de cristales rotos, por lo que, debería de poderse haber usado para continuar para adelante. Me situo frente la ventana, le doy a la z, y nada ocurre, tengo que darme otra vuelta (que no era tan larga la verdad) para poder acceder al sitio que lógicamente ya tenia acceso. Estos son cosas pequeñas pero frustrantes, porque siento que estoy haciendo buenas decisiones, que estoy usando las mecanicas del juego de formas innovadoras y inteligentes, solo para que el juego me castigue por no simplemente continuar para adelante sin pensar

Otra cosa son los puntos de descansar desapareciendo de areas anteriores una vez la hayas terminado, etc

Además de eso, el sistema que tiene de hubs no hace al juego ningún honor, es un sistema que incrementa MUCHO el backtracking, y de nuevo, no es que contribuyan mucho a la historia a nivel narrativo, literalmente el juego hubiese sido igual si hubiera sido lineal, y eso eliminaría gran parte del backtracking, haciendo que el juego fuese mas placentero

No recuerdo exactamente el contexto, pero cerca del comienzo del juego, había una parte donde era en plan "oh no tu personaje ha hecho esta cosa horrible sientete mal", pero es algo que yo me había visto venir, que había intentado evitar, y que el juego no me había dejado, por lo que ese sentimiento no se sintio autentico. No es que haya hecho esa acción horrible porque desde la perspectiva del juego y de mi personaje fuera la opcion correcta creando una situacion de etica gris muy interesante, simplemente paso y no me hizo sentir nada

En ñas "decisiones" que te da el juego también me senti timado. Hay tres situaciones del juego donde te puedes o dejar morir a tus amigos, o perder tu algo, los brazos, o en uno, el pezon de chiqui. Yo decidi no perder los brazos, y deje morir a mis amigos. Esto hizo el juego bastante mas complicado, ya que eran personajes buenos, pero con el tiempo me di cuenta, de que TODAS las habilidades mas utiles que tenia, NO REQUERIAN DE BRAZOS. Es decir, me diste una decisión entre perder a mis compañeros o hacerme a mi mismo mas débil, decidí NO hacerme mas débil, y a la mitad del juego te das cuenta que realmente lo correcto hubiera sido no dejar morir a tus compañeros ya que no te hubieras hecho mas débil por perder los brazos.

Me quedo sin caracteres pero el combate, hay muchas partes que se siente demasiado RNG, si el enemigo usara el ataque instakill o no o si lo stunnearas o no
Winnyace
@Patatitta write an entire paragraph in Romanian ;)
sametdze
patatitta can you oil up and share your thoughts on the oiled up experience
B0ii

sametdze wrote:

patatitta can you oil up and share your thoughts on the oiled up experience
BluePyTheDeer_
Suggestion to Patatitta: Try to talk a bit more (not too much) seriously, while keeping a funny side (to match the OT vibe).
Topic Starter
Patatitta

BluePyTheDeer_ wrote:

Suggestion to Patatitta: Try to talk a bit more (not too much) seriously, while keeping a funny side (to match the OT vibe).
why do you have such a fixation on me?
Reyalp51

Patatitta wrote:

BluePyTheDeer_ wrote:

Suggestion to Patatitta: Try to talk a bit more (not too much) seriously, while keeping a funny side (to match the OT vibe).
why do you have such a fixation on me?
he wants to steal you from me °՞(ᗒᗣᗕ)՞°
BluePyTheDeer_

Patatitta wrote:

BluePyTheDeer_ wrote:

Suggestion to Patatitta: Try to talk a bit more (not too much) seriously, while keeping a funny side (to match the OT vibe).
why do you have such a fixation on me?
IDK
Nuuskamuikkunen

BluePyTheDeer_ wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

BluePyTheDeer_ wrote:

Suggestion to Patatitta: Try to talk a bit more (not too much) seriously, while keeping a funny side (to match the OT vibe).
why do you have such a fixation on me?
IDK
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsessive%E2%80%93compulsive_disorder (?

Not ironically I know people with OCD and I know it's difficult for them.
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