Recent content by Empyrea

I played the OG in like.. 2004, as a high schooler. I saw that hand reach scene and thought nothing of it cause I was more focused on whether or not the party was doomed. So those lines coming right after iirc gave me, "I wanna think positively even just a little bit before we possibly die" kind...

The devs weren't blameless, but at this point (especially), I think it's the fans that are to blame. I don't know if it's just me, but this story had always been clear about this. Maybe not crystal clear, but definitely not so deep that it needs the thorough analysis people do with it. The...

I still find it rather stubborn of people to call those "routes" when the story is pretty linear. Routes would imply events change and would be accompanied with a different ending, or at least a different epilogue, to accomodate the choice. Really, the whole idea was dumb from the word go. If...

A little late to the party, but even though I liked the LSS and is pretty much why I recall FF7 despite playing it only once, technically, I...don't actually ship CT. CA and CT to me both suffer from being almost nothing but conflict and hardly any pay-off. CT (in og) basically put it all on...

I'm more surprised no one bat at an eye at how unnaturally sounding for FF those title cards were. I will concede that it's not like I noticed it off the bat, but geez, it's rare for FF to not be rather flowery with its titles. The fuss about all this was rather funny, though. At least from the...

I didn't mind the whole multiple Aeriths deal at first, but the more I thought about it, the more it felt like the devs either wrote themselves in a corner cause of conflicting approaches (mainly, highlighting CT and wanting to give CA closure for its fans) or wanting to have their cake and eat...

Which...I argue they kinda failed to do anyway because Aerith spent just as much time doing that as her bonding with mostly Cloud and sometimes Nanaki and Tifa. See, the dream date could probably work on paper, but it annoys me how focused it is on just Cloud and Aerith. Then later Aerith is...

As someone who barely felt much for the OG scene, I felt even less for this one. I got that they shifted the focus, but I felt it was overdone at that point. Like, I get it, Cloud's head is messed up all the way to Sunday. But why hammer that in here, too? In what was supposed to be Aerith's...

It doesn't, yeah. I think it's been said before, but the thing is, most extreme shippers argue backwards. That is, they form a conclusion, then explain every detail using it. It's incredibly bizarre.

They shouldn't be. In fact, I'd say media in general lacks examples of lovers also being friends (far as I know). But then you see the fandom, and they'd rather you think that they are mutually exclusive.

I'm of the opinion that just as authors write what they know, readers/the audience interpret based on their beliefs/what they know. I don't think treating the characters as if they're real is automatically a bad thing. But it should have limits, otherwise the discussion devolves into projecting...

I personally found this was caused by the trend in the 90s where the writers seemed to focus more on the mutual pining and just ending the story when feelings were confessed. I was never a fan of that. That said, I always found the CA moments a little too on the nose about it, only to then...

Probably a reference to "Just Monika" from DDLC. Maybe they mean the ending where we don't know if she's alive or dead or whatnot

There's also that plenty of anime almost seems to promote unhealthy relationships. The main guy is a jerk but is soft and gentle towards the main girl? Squee material. The main girl will fix him! Funny enough, more and more anime that go against the grain harems and romcoms set have been popping...

That's an insult to wet noodles. :desuawesomonster: Then again, I'm still of the opinion that Cloud in the OG had the personality of a wet noodle until after LSS, so... :awesome: So they didn't even notice that Cloud's responses are different from whatever option you picked even way back then...