Weekly post

  • LennethAegis@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    I’m playing Nier Replicant now. I’ve played the original on PS3 and it feels weird that the protagonist changed from a large, grumpy dad to a small sweet child taking care of his sister.

    Completely changing the protagonist in the original release is such a weird choice. And had to have been so much extra work.

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        2 years ago

        The change was done to appeal to western audiences who they said would like a gruff older man better, so it was only dialogue changes that were done all over to account for this. The story is otherwise the same. But yes the character dynamics change a lot when the hero goes from like a 15 year old to someone around 40.

        I only just met Kaine, but she’s a companion who is around 20 years old, which obviously makes a big difference whether she’ll palling around with a teen or a much older man. I look forward to seeing how the writing her changes.

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          2 years ago

          Oh right I do remember reading something about this. A similar situation but it wasn’t get appeal to Western audience was Metal Gear Soild 2. The whole reason Raiden was created was because Hideo Kojima conducted a survey among Japanese women. One respondent said she was tired of the main characters being “stupid old men”.

    • stephfinitely@kbin.socialOP
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      2 years ago

      The original Deus Ex changed how I saw story telling in video games. Now says it’s not that ground breaking but when it first came out it changed everything.

    • stephfinitely@kbin.socialOP
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      2 years ago

      My partner has gone back to Breath of the Wild. They said they actually prefer the more discovery feel of the open world and thinks TotK is a little to packed.

    • executeable
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      2 years ago

      i’m also playing this currently! lol the hype for TOTK got me convinced to play and I love it.

      • Byakko@lemmy.world
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        2 years ago

        Haha, me too, I wanted to play it for a long time and the ads on TV from the new game gave me enough hype to finally start playing this one and I’m liking it a lot :D

        • executeable
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          2 years ago

          oh gosh, tik tok has literally been showing me all the things you can do with TOTK and i’m like man, i gotta try out botw before diving into that one!

  • DreamySweet@vlemmy.net
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    2 years ago

    I just got Jack Jeanne. It’s really good so far.

    Final Fantasy XIV, just started Stormblood. I’ve been leveling Machinist and Red Mage.

    Gunfire Reborn, it’s addictive and has a red panda character now.