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  1. i'm having fun w pikmin 4 but i cannot fathom how they came up with some of the ideas the game represents 


     

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    above all else, the game is staggeringly easy thus far (i've 'beaten' the story and am now in the post-game) and despite the game constantly trying to remind me of how dangerous the world is, it feels much more like WE are the predators here, not the creatures that want me dead y; nothing respawns until you 100% an area, but for what reason would i even have to revisit anywhere? for like 3 areas i had to come back for like one or two treasures and i ended up just sending oatchi after them while i looked at my phone for 3 minutes before ending the day. the only real challenge i've found so far is in the dandori challenges, some of which are quite brutal, andolimar's missions (tho i've only done one so far, i loved it). i think the challenge would have been better balanced if every couple days some stuff respawned, or changed locations, literally anything to make these gorgeous areas feel alive.

     

    i'm also struggling to figure out the reason we have a hub world. we have like 500 castaways, and the crew keeps making the area bigger, but for what? nothing ever changes and speaking to every single one of these people is slow and annoying. we have a stylist who can change almost nothing about our appearance. we have a construction worker who builds nothing. we have a researcher who doesn't even have a physical lab. literally why are any of you here, just send me a package in the mail. "please save my boss, he's out there somewhere :(" bro yeah that's the idea, i wasn't just gonna leave him stranded in some cave, but in the meantime how about you go tf home?? its so crowded but all they do is stand around ;_;

     

    also i know i'm complaining a lot but for how much the game enforces the idea of being efficient with your time, it sure has no problem wasting mine with the abundance of cutscenes and dialogue. i finish a night expedition and there are FIVE SCREENS before i can get to the next day?!

    >you beat all the enemies!

    >the lumiknoll is fine :]

    >into the ship

    >back to base/scoring

    >conversation (EVERY NIGHT WITH THIS???)

     

    i truly miss the days when i could end a day in pikmin 1 and if nothing of note happened, olimar had nothing to fucking say and we'd just get on with it. i'm so annoyed listening to these people talk i'm skipping dialogue i haven't even seen before. did we need a cutscene every time i bring a leafling to the ship? i KNOW you can't read the ID card, we have been through this 15 times already!! the game not remembering my pikmin amounts when i leave a cave, the fact that i have to talk to every npc TWICE to get the quest they want to give me, 'have you picked those pikmin sprouts yet?', 'wow more pikmin lost', 'good job oatchi, you came back' I KNOW. I GET IT. WE WERE ALL THERE. PLEASE IM DYING FOR SOME PEACE AND QUIET AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

     

    WHY IS IT NOT JUST ME AND MY DOG AGAINST A COLD AND UNCARING PLANET. WHERE IS THE SOLACE? WHY CAN'T I TURN OFF MY CREWMATES 'HELP'? WHY DOES EVERY CREATURE ON THIS EARTH WANT ME DEAD? WHY AM I FORCED TO KILL THE ONE THING THAT DOESN'T: THE MAMUTA? WHY DOES DANDORI EVEN MATTER IF THERE'S NO TIME LIMIT AND NOTHING RESPAWNS??

     

    anyway i'm having a lotta fun, 7/10

  2. first time i saw hestu was near lindor's brow, and after that he hung out at lookout landing for ages until i bothered to save the forest and probably would have stayed there forever if i hadn't y; he'll only go to lookout if you haven't saved the forest and you met him at lindor's first, and once the forest is saved he'll move there permanently

     

    personally since i was already hanging around LL a ton during the main quests, it was way more convenient to just keep him there and i ended up not heading to the forest at all until i was nearly completely done with the game  

  3. i beat totk! my finishing percentage was 77.03%! i did all the shrines and got most of the sages will, but i'm missing a bunch of side stuff which is nice so i'll have some other stuff to do later flower; 

     

    i think this game is a 9/10 (same rating for botw, really, but for different reasons) but i can't help feeling wildly underwhelmed for the story. didn't they say this would be the darkest zelda yet?? this game isn't even as dark as the game that came directly before it!

     

    things that bothered me in no particular order:

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    no grey morality for Ganon, he is literally just a big dude that is Evil for the sake of being Evil. there was so much that could have been expounded upon here i feel like we lost what could have been the most interesting Ganon just for them to fall back on a dude who hates hyrule for no reason. how about a man who is fed up with this cycle of birth and death and rebirth? a man who had been used by hyrule, or had lost a loved one due to not having enough power? how about a man who was forced out of the gerudo due to being foreseen as an agent of evil? what if Rauru wasn't just a Perfect King with No Flaws Whatsoever and actually did something to incur Ganon's wrath? they're all so flat just to fit their archetypes but WHY?? we already knew the current hyrule had plenty of things wrong with it underneath the surface, why not EXPAND that idea to give us something to hold onto other than 'these guys are good and never make mistakes'?

     

    nothing happens to ANYONE you're involved with, no one experiences any real lasting hardship and most of all: no one dies AT ALL except for Sonia?! i hesitate to even say Rauru 'died' bc of the way he sacrificed himself. y; Like none of these characters feel like they go through any amount of growth (except Tulin mostly and Sidon, a little) like they had to in BotW, they are just There for the sake of helping Link, which, by the way, they BARELY do. Even at the end fight, your sage friends are there for like, 2 minutes of Hyrule Warriors Time and a few minutes of fighting Ganon then we shoot into the sky and that's it. Their powers are not even needed, even in a plot sense. Mineru goes through negative growth imo, bc we learn so little about her by the time she actually passes on in the post-credits scene, I felt nothing at all for her.  Also why is Tulin even here? I love him, but we already had a character who was in place to be a sage, so why was it not Teba?? I could see if it was to emphasize the 'up and coming generation', but Mineru was definitely an adult and at this point even Link would be like in his mid-twenties, so why can't it be the dad? At least he could have had an interesting reaction to having to be a sage as well as a village leader and father.

     

    even the most touching and gut-wrenching of plot points (Zelda becoming an immortal dragon) has NO consequences in the end. not to mention, even once some people KNOW that she's become an immortal dragon and thus cannot (just kidding tho) be turned back, no one is even grieving or seems to care at all!? i expected Purah to at least shed a tear over the idea of NEVER SEEING ZELDA AGAIN but i guess the looming threat of a dude chilling underground was more pressing? i can understand Link not showing any emotion over this, that's literally part of his character, but you can't tell me even Paya wouldn't have cried over the loss of the princess. 

     

    also disappointed we completely avoided the idea of Link actually losing his arm and thus having any real effect on his life whatsoever. perhaps it would have been just TOO bold to have our hero actually be disabled after the end fight and having to live his life with real consequences of the world around him? maybe i was just expecting too much out of nintendo? 

     

    also WHO the hell was Rauru and Sonia's child????? they make no mention of having children at all, which is not only a glaring plot hole (Zelda HAS to be a direct bloodline relative of them as mentioned in the plot by them based on her powers) but a complete missed opportunity to show any amount of guts for this plot as a whole. Rauru sacrifices himself with NO qualms whatsoever once Sonia dies (implying to me they definitely did not have any kids), but what if he was a man who had to choose between being there for his undoubtedly young child or saving his kingdom by sacrificing himself (now leaving his child parentless)? Begging the sages to take care of the baby, perhaps? Zelda, before turning into a dragon, ensuring the child that they were loved and are destined for great things like their parents? Those monuments in the sky were written by someone close to the royal family and they knew Zelda at the time, what if those were written by the child instead? 

     

    I know people have complained about how BotW seems almost entirely disconnected from TotK and while I can agree somewhat, I'm mostly disappointed that the world as a whole doesn't seem to have grown at all since then. At least 5 years have passed, we have no new towns/villages, even the current towns haven't grown at all save for Hateno getting like, two new buildings? Not even any new encampments really? I hesitate to even call Lookout Landing a new town because of how lifeless and small it is and TEMPORARY above all else. Like they haven't even restored any of Hyrule Castle Town yet, in FIVE YEARS?? Like what was everyone doing? y; 

     

    AND WHERE IS KASS?? THE MAN IS A FATHER OF 5, IS HE A DEADBEAT?? Where would he have even GONE?

     

    and do not even get me STARTED on how bland the depths ended up being. Why is there like, no distinction anywhere in the depths for where you might be?? it all looks EXACTLY the same??????????? other than a few lava falls indicating where hot springs should be? its extremely telling that unless I'm looking at a map, I would have no idea where I am underground ever, to me that is bad design. The overworld is so vast and different looking, there are landmarks EVERYWHERE, you're telling me the Zonai didn't need landmarks around here to get around with? The environment above doesn't affect how it looks down here? For gods sake, its not even COLD around the Hebra area, like what was the point of making it fit the size of the overworld if they weren't going to do anything with it? They made a glowing armor set as if brightbloom seeds aren't an invasive species on the surface, as if I'd ever find any use of it at all. It just feels like none of it is fully realized. 

     

    ARRGGHHHH i could go on for hours!! There are SO many touching scenes, I teared up at many points of dialogue but it all feels so SAFE compared to BotW!! There's no death, destruction, grieving, pain, how could anyone consider this the darkest Zelda game?! I cried when Yona chastised Sidon for keeping her at a distance for fear of losing another one he loves, but he DOESN'T lose another one he loves! We're supposed to be fighting so hard to save this country, but it doesn't even feel like its in danger of anything, because there's nothing happening to anyone! part of the feeling of 'winning' in BotW was having the Beasts fire a fucking laser at the castle weakening C. Ganon and thus feeling like we're holding him back, together, as a country. but when we beat the bosses of TotK, what is stopping him from just doing it again? He literally just lets us hang out until we drop into the hole to stop him for good! I would have loved if near the end the game actually gave me some urgency by covering the land in more gloom, finding monsters attacking town, seeing the occasional boss in the wilderness to show that he was getting desperate in some way to keep us away. Like how there used to be a fuckton of guardians in the castle and around it, but there's just no looming threat from Ganon. And going back to what I said before, I had no qualms about just fucking him up either, because he is evil just for the sake of it. he doesn't even have any attachment to his own people, imagine if he tried to get Riju on his side by telling her about his past or something....ugh. 

     

    this post ended up very long, to anyone who read it all: i'm sorry, i just have a deep appreciation for BotW and TotK and feel like the lack of a clear story and character depth really pulled this game back from being what it could have been y; in terms of gameplay i don't think i could call TotK anything but a direct improvement, but in terms of story........well. 

     

    i had a lot of fun with it and still am, but i think my score might just drop as time goes on simply because of my disappointment lol

  4. 5 hours ago, EH_STEVE said:

    What's the shortest timeloop you could be stuck in indefinitely without going insane?

     

    What's the longest timeloop you could be stuck in before you noticed you were in a timeloop?

    i think i'd go insane the longer it was........if its shorter its way easier to get used to it and adapt accordingly, yknow? if i was stuck for like, a few months, by the time it reset i'd probably be devastated enough that i couldn't do it more than a couple times y; the shortest would probably be........2 days? 1 day if the day wasn't that bad.

     

    before i NOTICED would be super short tho; i think i'd notice if i was in a timeloop literally the day of 

     

    coincidentally i watched groundhog day for the first time last night, and it was really good flower; 

  5. 1 hour ago, EH_STEVE said:

    I was the same way. I was missing one or two of those things before the final battle. But went in anyways.

    most of the stuff on my list i've already finished/are getting close to so i figure i'll probably finish soon

     

    the shrines are done, i got the sword, the side adventures n main quests are all finished........i still have a bunch of side quests but i don't consider those relevant =_= i've yet to beat a gleeok bc its scary so i figure i'll do that after i save the world lmfao

  6. nothing much to follow anymore, they're all dead 

     

    i obviously have no feelings for people i've never met, let alone the extremely rich with no common sense, but the internet's extreme cruelty towards the event is so weird 

     

    i get it, eat the rich, kill all billionaires, etc etc, but its like these people can't be normal about anything anymore...like they're just a bunch of dudes and a 19 year old, why the extreme response to all of this 

     

    the internet is always chomping at the bit to be angry i guess

     

     

  7. On 6/19/2023 at 8:31 PM, Stephen 776 said:

    Work has slowed down for the summer and the in-laws are visiting soon so I've had to deep cleaning to make our apartment look basically new because I can see the mother-IL finding any reason to complain.

     

    Still in the process of cleaning the kitchen but there's one grate that's caked with grease and it's been my nemesis. Ammonia at least put a dent but I hate the fumes but probably need to zip the grate up again so NH3 can work its magic hidingkong;

     

    Anyway, friends, how have y'all been lately?

    soaking in baking soda/soap, scrubbing, then soaking in vinegar might work better? especially if you hate fumes hm;

     

    baking soda is usually my go-to at least, now that i'm older anything w a strong smell rly bothers me so i try to avoid them as much as possible lmao y; 

  8. for once i do not want a nintendo direct bc i am still obsessed with TOTK and don't want to be tempted to put it down for anything else y;

     

    i'm close to the end of the story but there's still so much other side stuff to do that i don't feel compelled to do it at all

     

    purah: wow, so we're finally at the point of beating Ganon....do your best Link...

    me: okay see you in 4-6 business months good luck guys

  9. i kind of imagine if they're remaking p3, the FES stuff will come later and they will just make you pay for it...

     

    i just can't imagine why they would bother otherwise, like who is the audience for JUST p3 at this point? wouldn't pretty much anyone prefer to get the whole shebang, whether they like the FES stuff or not??

     

    tho maybe that's just me lol

  10. On 6/1/2023 at 6:00 AM, EH_STEVE said:

    Wanted to do another Zelda, but I suppose I shouldn't.

     

    There are two wildfires burning up my little province. One is the biggest in history, one is close enough that I constantly can smell smoke at my apartment.

     

    Penis.

    i walk to work and at some points last month the smoke was so bad my nose would be running and i'd have a splitting headache after 10 minutes walking :') i feel your pain!! my province is also suffering!

     

    at least its been raining a lot the past week or so, i haven't smelled the smoke in a bit so i'm hoping for a very very rainy june

  11. 1 hour ago, Stephen 776 said:

    I checked out the selection last night, but it feels only the Weekly Shonen Sunday stuff is there. I.e. Rumiko Takahashi and Detective Conan feel like the main draw.

     

    I'll probably get it for Takahashi's works at least, since she's made like three God damn classics.

    'main draws' don't really matter much to me other than bnha which i follow with not much fanfare, but the fact alone that fushigi yugi, nana, and anything by arina tanemura are on there are enough for me really y; 

     

    consistent updates and translations for frieren and bnha are worth the few bucks a month to me already i think @_@

  12. 3 hours ago, EH_STEVE said:

    LttP and Link's Awakening are quick enough and always a good choice.

    i've never played through LA, but ALttP always seemed kinda long to me....maybe bc i was a pro at just wandering around enjoying the landscape lol y; 

     

    i don't wanna get burnt out on zelda tho, so i picked up Wildfrost instead for something that's a bit easier to pick up and put down flower; 

  13. i have, i had quite a good time with it flower; while i don't have fond memories of the battle system, i do remember enjoying the clever boss battles and many other aspects of the game 

     

    the graphics were gorgeous, the story was fun, and i quite enjoyed the world it was set in. i even remember tearing up at one point in the story lol

     

    i didn't play any of the paper mario games between TTYD and OK and i understand that 'reinventing the wheel', so to speak, is felt as necessary for continued franchises, but i do hope a return to form is considered for future PM titles...even though i thoroughly enjoyed OK, it definitely did not scratch the same itch previous PM games did. though many indie titles attempt to fill the niche left behind when big franchises divert from their paths, very few actually seem worth their weight in salt (and dollars).

  14. 2 hours ago, Stephen 776 said:

    I'd like to hear what you thought of it when it's done!

    it was great!! seriously, like it was very fun, the music was INCREDIBLE, and it was short, sweet, and a great lil romp for Mario fans flower;

     

    my only minor complaint is Anya Taylor-Joy's Peach, and even that was totally fine, just not really what I loved. She was way less girl-bossed up than the trailer led me to imagine. 

     

    the writing was funny without being cringy, and incredibly even Chris Pratt's Mario was not terrible. I still believe the movie should have had practiced animation tier voice acting but they all did great, especially the main cast. 

     

    and the best part remains that it was a 90 minute movie! very snappy, I did not feel like my time was wasted on mindless travel and back and forths, the plot just moves on and that in particular made it very easy to enjoy.

     

    I'd recommend any Mario fan to see it! flower;

     

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