#//it's just apparent that I'm not as much of a fan as these people//

[goodluckclove]

Hi if you're looking for reviews on all of these here are mine from what I've seen, as short as possible and in order as they appear on the list.

possibly in michigan: Fun, super campy and low-budget, the source of some tiktok sounds you've definitely heard before. it's 12 minutes who cares give it a watch.

hellraiser 1: I fucking love Hellraiser. Clive Barker (Queer, kinky, horror darling) wrote the book and then directed the movie adaptation. Horror, if there are jumpscares they are not well executed, it's decently gory but it's like schlocky 80's gore that is at times wonderfully cheesy. Pretty cool practical effects.

hellraiser 2: They made like 11 Hellraiser movies and I have seen all of them. Clive Barker I think only wrote and directed the first one, so I'd say that's the only one in the series that's objectively pretty great. The second one is unremarkable, the fourth takes place in space, and the one from 2011 is a found footage film where Pinhead is inexplicably CGI. This series and Final Destination are, in my mind, the most enjoyable near-endless horror film franchises.

kill bill 1: It's Tarantino, it's pretty good. I never had an interest to watch it again.

kill bill 2: I've seen this too, I imagine it's also fine. Quentin Tarantino is a film director and people like to talk about him. I am not one of those people.

it's a wonderful life: Black and white Christmas movie. I am a pretty big fan of James Stewart and found that he evokes a softness in his masculinity that I like seeing in actors, especially of that era. If you want to see him sans Christmas-induced suicidaility, The Shop Around the Corner and Rear Window are also great.

evil dead 1: Bruce Campbell is a treasure and one of my idols. Warning in advance though this is a Sam Rami movie and he's known for some pretty wild creative moves in horror. In almost all of his work there's some cartoonish levels of gore (Not realistic, but certainly fucking weird). In this movie specifically, though, there is an infamous scene where a woman is possessed by a demon through SA by a tree monster. It's short, not entirely explicit, but it's absolutely unnecessary and Rami has stated he regrets this specific choice. He went on to remove the agressive sexual overtones in the sequel which is partially a remake of this movie.

evil dead 2: I would tell most people to treat this trilogy like a duology. Evil Dead 2 is the first Evil Dead as far as I'm concerned - and frankly, I think Sam Rami would agree with me. He got to do all the shit from the first movie in this too - only bigger, better, gorier, more insane, and just so much fucking fun. Bruce Campbell cuts off his hand and replaces it with a chainsaw. He is more annoyed with this because he is the most handsome, coolest guy in the world. He is my Batman and he works in his universe's equivalent of Walmart.

army of darkness: After having a terrible night, Ash Williams is out one hand and a girlfriend. Before he can take a goddamned shower he is thrown into a portal and sent back to the Middle Ages, where there's more goddamned deadites and he resigns himself this somehow being his problem. These two movies are incredible. I own them on DVD.

hell house llc 1: It's fine. Found footage horror so I had to see it. Most of them are unwatchable to okay, this was okay.

hell house llc 2: I forgot there were sequels, looked up the synopsis of this one and realized that I did watch this one too. It was not good. They made four of these apparently and they're releasing a fifth one next year. That is new information. I will probably try and watch the third one.

perfect blue: Satoshi Kon is brilliant and this movie is incredible. It's a beautifully-animated psychological horror about a woman trying to forge a a new path outside of her previous idol career and her subsequent breakdown. There's another rape scene (Simulated, she's an actor and it's during a shooting), but I would say this has a far more earned cultural and narrative context compared to idiot 22 year old Sam Rami. Still, if that's rough, I'd skip this. But if that's not a dealbreaker this is the subbed version - which is crucial, because the dub fucked up and ruined the super subtle and devastating twist ending.

stepford wives: I'm a fan of the original over the remake. Pretty grim societal messages, ending was a lot darker than I remember when I first watched it. Solid film, I'd say worth a watch.

texas chainsaw massacre (1974): This is an insane collection of movies, by the way. The original Texas Chainsaw is a pretty interesting piece of horror history in that it's deeply disturbing while also not really anything in terms of on-screen gore (Or nudity, really). It's also arguably a landmark in disability rep for genre movies - as the wheelchair-user in the central cast is written to be fairly unlikable, so is everyone else, and even then he's not the first to die. It's not progressive in that way, but it is interesting to watch and see where things have evolved.

carrie (1976): This movie really freaked me out when I was younger. There was a desperation in the face of a young Sissy Spacek that, when paired with Brian De Palma's frantic directing, was really disturbing to me. It's good, though. Great watch. Better adaptation than the new one.

the thing (1982): Good! Fun! Bleak as fuck! I consistently mistake this as being a Cronenberg movie but I do kind of think that's justified.

crash (1996): See this is a Cronenberg movie. It's also what I personally consider to be one of his least interesting. Scanners is cool. Videodrome is cool. This is - like, fine? But it's dialogue-heavy and lacking in campy flesh theatrics, and Cronenberg is like. Not great with dialogue.

get out: It's the Jordan Peele movie. It's fantastic. People weren't lying when it came out and we all collectively said it was fantastic.

the watermelon woman: Late 90's independent lesbian romantic dramady written and directed by a black lesbian filmmaker. New Queer Cinema is awesome and so valuable to learn about for both what it did and what it was lacking in. People have said the dialogue can be lacking, but it's pretty on-par to the genre of what I remember considering a solid contender for the proto-mumblecore genre of films.

eraserhead: It's David Lynch. It's his first feature film. He insists it wasn't a way for him to process his fears around becoming a father despite the fact that the movie was released shortly after the birth of his first child and it stars a man who just straight up looks exactly how David Lynch looks.

free movies

nowhere

the living end

the doom generation

mysterious skin

chopping mall

black christmas

beneath the skin

possibly in michigan

hellraiser 1

hellraiser 2

kill bill 1

kill bill 2

leave her to heaven

it's a wonderful life

bram stoker's dracula

evil dead 1

evil dead 2

army of darkness

hell house llc 1

hell house llc 2

hell house llc 3

aliens

vampire hunter d (1985)

vampire hunter d: bloodlust

mikey and nicky

perfect blue

ganja and hess

nosferatu (1922)

carnival of souls

stepford wives

texas chainsaw massacre (1974)

gentlemen prefer blondes

fight club

carrie (1976)

the thing (1982)

the lost boys

butch cassidy and the sundance kid

phantom of the paradise

velvet goldmine

the devils (1971)

possession (1981)

crash (1996)

get out

paris is burning

the watermelon woman

eraserhead

an american werewolf in london

whatever happened to baby jane?

all about eve

southern comfort

[elliebean714]

Hide And Seek

Josh Washington x GN!Reader (Romantic or Platonic)

Everybody's playing hide and seek, but you're veryy competitive and end up somewhere you shouldn't have

Fluff, Slow Burn(?) This is kinda just game lore, then turns into an actual character x reader at the very end lol

An~ I *think* this is *loosely* inspired by a fic I read on here a few years ago, I cannot remember though, so credits to them ig, I'll tag the og if I somehow find it (if it's even real, I may have dreamt it up or something lmao). I only put this as josh x reader bc he's my fave, but honestly, this can be read without that and you wouldn't miss anything lmao. I just wanted to get this out of my skull. SOO PROUD OF THISS!! HAD SO MUCH FUN WRITING THIS OMGGG?? WRITING IS FUN?? WTFF??? Its 5:30 in the morning and i just finished writing until dawn fan fiction. How did it come to this?? good lord this man is beautiful, should be a crime to be this gorgeous. Someone tell me how to tell if my one shot is slow burn or not. I'm not very clever. Sorry the ending is so shit lol, I'm very tired and really want to share this and AAAHHHHHH release me from this tormentttttt

Pre-Game

"Okay, everybody, let's set some ground rules before we start." Chris waves his arms to make sure everyone is paying attention. "First off, obviously, nobody is allowed to go outside, okay? Let's keep it fair people. Next, since there's twelve of us and the lodge is so big, we're gonna have two seekers. Thats Josh and Beth, they'll have to wait in here for two minutes while we all hide." The pair wave "Alright, lastly, you're allowed to move as much as you want, but if you're caught you come back to the kitchen until everyone is found. Winner gets the $600." He motions to the locked box that everyone pitched in $50, then hands the key to josh to keep a hold of until the end.

"Right, yeah, we get it. C'mon nobody likes to wait." Mike snaps his fingers, growing impatient, "Lets get going." while Beth sets a two minute timer on her phone, you slowly creep towards the door with a destination already firmly implanted in your mind. A countdown from three starts, your hand twisting the handle of the door, ready to bolt as soon as you hear-

"One!" The timer starts, and by the time everybody is out the kitchen, you're already halfway down the stairs to the basement. You sprint past all the potential hiding spots, far too obvious for someone of your calibre.

The sound of the basement door opening and a two pairs of footsteps make you jump "Mike-" Emily moans into, what you assume is a kiss. You sneak behind a pile of boxes before they can see you. They might not be seekers, but your plans will NOT be foiled by MIKE AND EMILY making out. Absolutely not.

They find some distant corner to hide and do whatever, you poke your head out for a second to check they don't notice you, when you see them firmly 'distracted' you sneak off without making a sound and get past the door at the furthest point in the room, deeper into the basement, and closer to your destination.

The old hotel. Before the Washingtons built the lodge on the mountain, there was a hotel here, they leveled it before construction, but you've spoken to josh about it, apparently remnants have remained down there, completely untouched. There should definitely be somewhere to hide. This would be easier if the two people looking for you weren't the two most likely to have knowledge of the layout of the hotel, but that doesn't mean you give up.

It means you have to be smart, sneaky and fast. You don't even need to be in a great hiding spot, you just need to be the last one found, you need to win. You feel a rush of adrenaline course through you when you see a pair of rotted wooden stairs, YES! It's still here! Soon you find yourself in what probably wouldve been the kitchen, and let yourself stop for a moment to check the time, 22:49. You've been running for five minutes, Josh and Beth have been searching for three.

That thought pushes you to keep moving- past the weird, long, creepy hallways and rooms and... smells. You come to a small room with a cage encasing it, god, how deep into this place are you? This wouldn't be a bad place to stay, if there were hiding spots. You check your phone: 22:52. If you had to guess, Emily, Mike, Hannah and Chris had probably been found by now. But you can't rely on that, time to get moving.

Eventually, the rooms and corners all turn to the one long corridor, stone exterior, definitely man made. Like some tunnel...? To where?? Where would there need to be a tunnel to on the mountain? Well, might as well check it out, not like you're going to lose at this point. If Josh or Beth decide to check the old hotel, they sure as hell aren't coming down this far.

A little ways down the tunnel, you see a huge set of metal double doors, this just keeps getting weirder. Thankfully the doors are open, just enough to squeeze yourself through and continue down. You check the time once you pass the door: 23:07. Oh you've won that $600. No contest. A surge of pride and adrenaline rush through you and motivate you to continue.

Seeing a set of stone stairs is... unsettling. Where they lead to even more so. You cautiously follow them up to a weird, giant room. Dark and abandoned... is this more of the hotel? No way, right? Leaving the room, you see a chain linked door down a tiny hallway, all other directions are blocked off by old furniture, you look through the door...

It seems empty? Just a bigger room, looks semi religious, maybe an old Chapel? You gently push the door open, it's loud, but who cares? Nobody's here anyway. Looking around in amazement, this entire building, untouched by humans in who knows how long, you might be the first person to be inside this person in decades, maybe the last ever! This is all so surreal... your thoughts are interrupted by... a call? You check, Josh. You've only got one bar of service here, it's a miracle any contact was capable of being made. Might as well tease him. You're not going back to the lodge until you're found.

"Heyy-" you start, unable to contain your cheeky giggles

"JESUS, Y/N WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU?? Are you okay??" He sounds so relieved to hear your voice

"Yeah, obviously... so what's up, Washin-"

"You won, okay, wherever you are, just come out. We're all freaking out trying to find you"

"Nope." You state simply.

He sighs "You won. Please. You're freaking us out, you weren't supposed to go outs-"

"I didn't." God- its so hard to keep a straight face

"What...? You're still here? We've checked everywhere! I even checked that old hotel! Where are you??"

"No hints. I want one of you to find me." You hang up before he can protest, and check the time briefly: 23:38 before putting it away to explore the building. Along the sides are areas with chain linked walls, it's too dark to discern what's inside them. Except the one with an opening, heading inside you see a map of the mountain, outdated for sure, as it has the hotel labeled instead of the lodge.

From what you can guess, this building youre in is probably the sanatorium. Makes you wonder what happened that caused it to be abandoned. And for the Washingtons to do nothing with it. At the far end of the room, another giant set of double doors, you try to push them open, but they're either locked or way too heavy.

So the other side of the Chapel is your only option. One is completely blocked off, one that leads to another building in the sanatorium is locked and one at the far right takes you to a fenced in area, a makeshift graveyard, every name has the same date under it. Must've been a massacre... that's probably why it was abandoned, jeez... okay, well, that's just a dead end, so you turn back and- why does it feel like you're not alone anymore?

"Josh?" You call out, best case scenario, it's someone from your group and you've just given up your position... worst case... you creep towards the middle of the room "guys?" No response, maybe they're trying to scare you? Would be good payback for the $50 this excursion cost them. "You got me, okay? Come ou-" a screech interupts you, it sounds like an animal in distress, or a warning... "what the fuck?" It's coming from beyond the locked chain link door.

"Hello?" You step towards the sound, the door is locked, nothing will get you, it's fine... "is anyone there?" Another screech, you reach out to investigate the lock... and a gloved hand stops you.

Shit. You feel your blood run cold. This definitely isn't one of your friends. In half a second you whip your arm away and turn to face your assailant- old guy, weird goggles, flamethrower- before he can say a word you sprint across the room, out the door, down the stairs and back into the tunnel. You don't even know if he's following you, all you can hear are your own panicked breaths and your heart thumping so loud it feels like the walls are closing in on you with every beat.

You make it back to the double doors and slam them shut behind you. You can't lock them from this side, so the best you can do is close them and hope it'll slow him. God- you forgot how much of a maze this stupid hotel was, why the hell does there need to be so many hallways and dead ends?? Wait- the kitchen!! Yes! You know exactly where to go now! Just straight up. No more corridors and empty rooms.

The adrenaline has you acting pretty clumsy, tripping over steps, banging into things and slaming through doors. Once you're up that last set of stairs from the hotel to the lodge you start to feel exhausted- no, not yet- keep going, you got this. You reach out and open the door to the main basement, scaring the shit out of Ashley in the process "RUN! Holy shit-" you don't need to tell her twice. She grabs Chris, who was staring and the two run ahead. They hold the door to the basement open for you, after you practically jump up the stairs, somebody slams it shut and locks it.

The relief hits you like a freight train and your legs finally buckle, dropping you to the floor. Everyone hounds you with questions as you pant on the floor, trying to let the cold wood cool you down. You cover your eyes with your arm for a minute.

"What the hell happened??" You hear Matt ask

"I saw- shit- I saw somebody-" You pant- well at least I won't have to work out for the rest of the year. That sends everyone into a panic. More questions are thrown your way, the guys are discussing a plan of defense should it be necessary.

"What the fuck- who??" Jess' question is the one you hear.

"I dunno, some weird old guy- had a pair of goofy goggles and a fuckin' flamethrower." You take in several deep breaths and give Hannah a grateful smile when she hands you a water bottle.

"Where the hell did you go?" Josh gets close to you "where was he??"

You gulp down half the water before answering "I think I was in the sanatorium? I saw a map, I guessed that..." you trail off, everyone's stares making you suddenly self conscious "what?"

"Why the hell were you in the sanatorium?? That's dangerous Y/N!" Josh's concern comes out as a yell, in that way that someone only does when they really care.

"There's a tunnel from that old hotel beneath us to it, I was curious and I wanted to win." You shrug, god- this would be hilarious if it wasn't for that fucking insane person you met.

"There's a tunnel to the sanatorium?" Mike asks for confirmation.

"Yeah. And I won since I never technically went outside, by the way." You remind them. Sure this was a terrifying situation, but fuck it if you were loosing your reward.

"Shut up! Oh my god! There's a crazy guy up here, oh my goddd!" Ashley lashes out, you'd be offended if you hadn't scared her half to death a minute ago.

"Sorry." You mumble, drinking more water- fuck, have you ever sweat this much?

"Was he chasing you? Like, what happened?" Sam asks, always clear headed.

"I don't know, I just got there, Josh called me, I hung up, explored for a bit, heard some sort of animal, and he came up beside be before could see what it was. I just booked it, I didn't hear him I was too freaked." You answer truthfully

Josh takes your hand, seeing him serious is uncomfortable. "You should've come back when I called you."

"I wanted to win, I didn't think I'd see a fucking lunatic-" you attempt to defend your reasoning. was it sound? No. Did it work? Yeah.

"I told you you won." He asserted. He had one of those intense stares. One of the ones you feel a mile away. One that makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand.

"I know... I just- I dunno... I wanted to explore. A whole building abandoned and lost to time? I couldn't help it. I was gonna come back after like an hour." You shake your head and sigh "I got excited. I'm sorry I worried you. I wasn't thinking, you know how I get, I'm really sorry"

He sighs. "Just don't do it again"

🦋❄️🦋❄️

🦋Butterfly Effect~ Too Soon...?🦋

❄️The Group Decided To Play Hide And Seek❄️

🦋Y/N Went To The Old Hotel And Found A Secret Tunnel🦋

❄️Y/N Refused To Return To The Lodge❄️

🦋So They Could Explore The Sanatorium 🦋

❄️Y/N Attempted To Investigate The Sound...❄️

🦋And Met The Stranger🦋

♡☆♡☆♡☆♡☆

~ Elliebean714 🦋

[glitter-stained]

I’m trying to get a handle on Jason as a character. I got a great answer on Jason and Tim from @ultimate-marysue but they directed me to you as the Jason Todd expert. I’m wondering about Jason and Damian now. Do they interact at all in canon? Are they friendly/friends, typical brothers, enemies, or just acquaintances? Or do they just ignore each other?

I hope you can give me an answer. Thanks either way!

Oh goodness, that's because @ultimate-marysue is an absolute sweetheart but unfortunately my Jason knowledge is far from exhaustive, especially when it comes to Jason and Damian since some of their relationship happens in, um, unfortunate comics that are hard for me to get through (they probably say that because I study developmental psychopatholgy and do in-depth analysis about jason through that length rather than exhaustive lore-knowledge).

Sorry to toss you around like a pingpong ball, but I know @daisybell-on-a-carousel is currently trying to read through every single one of Jason's apparitions in comics (godspeed), so depending of where they're at in the comics they're definitely the one to ask for stuff like that in general. Unfortunately, I don't know anyone who posts a lit of lore/meta about Damian and Jason's relationship, but I do know @spicy-apple-pie loves Damian a lot and does really sweet comics so idk if they can help you but at the very least if they can't you'll get to read some cute comics.

The little I know about Jason and Damian's relationship:

-Jason and Damian's first meeting, from what I've gathered, is either from Battle for the Cowl (brutally butchers Jason's character, my second least favourite ever if I could go back in time to stop Tony Daniel from writing it I would), in which Jason shoots Damian in the chest, or Morrison's Batman & Robin run (somehow even more hated by the fans than Daniel, Morrison has admitted later to just not liking Jason's character. According to a survey I'm running these two are in the top three of worst Jason writers, but Morrison has a bonus of also butchering Talia's character to an unfathomable level and I don't know if I like his Damian very much either.) in that run (which is Dickbats with robin!Damian) Jason is portrayed as the classic "crazy evil villain" bs and making Dick his sworn-enemy apparently (he's more of a plot device than anything imo). So, we're off to a great start.

-The issue is, with the reboot, I find it pretty hard to clarify for some events which ones are still canon or not. The current state of dc comics is pushing the batfam conception more than ever before, with Jason back in the family (something that vaguely happened off-screen in the n52) and neither jason, dick, tim, damian nor anybody else seems to reference or resent anything about that despite how cartoonishly evil jason was in those so I think it's implied that they're not canon anymore (and I hope they stay this way and buried under twenty layers of retcon). However I don't think I've heard or seen any mention of a different first meeting for them so there's this shadow area of yeah btfc and morrison's jason probably didn't happen but then what did?

-currently as I said dc (ie tom king amongst others) pushes for a very "classical family batfam vibe" so they're on panel/on missions together but i haven't heard of them having arcs together in mainline (people who know more than me please feel free to correct me in the notes, in general but also if there's more about this specifically). I'm getting "siblings that don't really like eachother but don't hate eachother either vibes", especially on Damian's part. It's really not the most developed relationship in the batfam, of that I'm sure.

-for many people I've seen that their favourite damian and jason comic is juni ba's boy wonder volume 2. It isn't canon in mainline (and not my favourite jason characterization tbh) but since the two of them don't seem to interact that much in canon and the story is pretty popular and feels kinda parallel-ish to canon I get why people would consider it their reference. Also it has pretty sick designs for the both of them which certainly doesn't hurt.

-in the young justice show, a brainwashed/brain damaged(?) Jason is shown holding a baby Damian in his arms. This has no incidence on any dc comics canon but is extremely cute and therefore worth mentioning.

[lumiidragon]

I’ve decided that being involved in the TNR’s side of the fandom as a person who likes TNR but not enough to agree with the other fans about the stuff that’s blatantly not good or wonky about the series just makes for casual discussion with these fans...a headache. So I probably won’t bother with fanart for it anymore or community indulgence at that. Wanting to push away from the HTTYD community a bit anyway.

[wesavegotham]

"Talia can never be redeemed and her romance with Bruce can never come back because *falls for Grant Morrison's/DC's extreme racism towards asian and arab characters in the 2000s/2010s"

Yeah, sorry, but shut the hell up. It never fails to astound me when DC actually tries to fix the mistakes they made with Talia/the al Ghuls in general these last two decades and the fans manage to be even worse than DC by clinging to the blatant racist/sexist writing of the past instead of embracing the turn for the better.

"But she did this and that!"

She's a fictional character in a fictional universe that is aware that it goes through continuity changes/retcons. What Grant Morrison did to her character was a a complete retcon of her 30 year history and characterization with zero respect for her. Why am I supposed to take Morrison's bullshit as gospel and reject any attempts to fix her from writers who know better?

[lillotte17]

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[quasi-normalcy]

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[decepti-geek]

for all that I love Ghosts, I've been getting a very different kind of joy out of watching uploads of a very, very similar show on youtube - The Ghosts of Motley Hall.

Like, a setup where the ghosts actually mostly like each other from the off, so that a huge chunk of the dialogue just goes towards establishing more and more of their meandering, idiosyncratic shared history (especially because the budget was clearly about £1.50 so they have to establish most things through dialogue)... that has its own kind of charm.

[atomicsuperrobot]

Oh hey does anybody know yet what the Twitter thing was about? I don't really go on there anymore; thinking about deleting in order to remove the temptation, tbh... Not a big fan of some of the fandom on there, for reasons I refuse to elaborate on; to say nothing about the site in general (prime example being that blocking has been nerfed). It was supposed to be today, tho, so I was wondering if anybody had seen it yet.

[turtlemagnum]

ok, gonna try my hand at compiling my thoughts on fist of the north star first. here goes nothing! warning, this post is gonna be Long, open the read more at your own peril.

i think the best way to go about this might be roughly chronologically, so i'll start at the start. i think it's interesting how very early on, the conceit is "there is but one practitioner of hokuto shinken and but one practitioner of nanto seiken, and they are sworn to never fight lest the world fall into Chaos..." and that degrades very quickly past the first arc. i will say that overall, the shin arc is a very fun, enjoyable and relatively quick watch, with mostly interesting fights, decent character designs and a mostly compelling narrative. i think one of the standout parts, to me, was when shin was actually defending yuria from his former goons while they tried to revolt. it definitely added a certain texture to shin's character where he had previously been just 100% straightforwardly the bad guy, instead of being 99% that. also there's the devil rebirth fight and that time ken killed The Entire United States Military in the same episode that he punched a wrecking ball so hard that it shattered like a christmas ornament. now that i think about it, the leader guy of the former US military was actually probably the first time we see nanto seiken used by someone who isn't shin, and i remember it being kind of a big deal that shin had violated their sacred traditions to such an extent, y'know? how quickly that went out the window

something that's been consistently good in the series was the music. the fight music, the ambient stuff, and especially the openings. all 3 of the openings are S tier, but i will say they never quite top ai wo torimodose, it's just that fucking bombastic and fun, y'know? at the same time i wouldn't stab somebody for thinking silent survivor or TOUGH BOY are better, they're all fuckin great even if in different ways at time. honestly i'm mostly surprised that an anime from back then had more than one opening, much less 3. from what i can tell that shit wasn't nearly as common back then as it was today, so i think it speaks to how deeply popular the series was back in its heyday. hell, OG dragon ball got just one and im pretty sure DBZ barely got two. i hope one day i'll be able to make music as stellar as the hnk soundtrack, really.

something that bugged me about early fist of the north star is how every fucking woman looked like yuria, just sometimes with different hair. this definitely got better as the series went on, and i have no idea if this was a problem in the manga too, but by god is it glaring. thankfully that seems to clear up ironically after mamiya is introduced, who is explicitly portrayed to be the spitting image of yuria. i think the first time i noticed that women finally look like unique people and Not Just Yuria was that one martial artist who fought with roses and shit. side note but i genuinely loved her design, the show got really sexist about her being a Femoid who fights but setting aside that i really loved her. i should learn to draw her. anyways, i like how the series improved over time in that regard, at the very least

one of my biggest problems in the series starts with shin's death. i remember when shin first died and he burst out crying, i had assumed it was just a fucked up manipulation tactic like the yuria doll, but apparently we the audience were expected to take it seriously? and like, this began a longrunning trend of a villain being like, absolutely irredeemably evil, like puppy crusher machine, baby eating, torment nexus evil, and then at the end they're all like "i just wanted 2 play on de play groundt...." and we're expected to take that seriously???? like, i'm all for moral nuance and complexity, and there are times where this whole shtick was done more tolerably than others, but in my opinion they never actually redeem somebody in a way that's satisfying. a redemption arc has to be, y'know, a fucking arc. and even if you're trying to do a redemption = death thing, the thing that makes that trope work is that they die doing something, y'know, actually good???? the reason anakin's redemption worked (aside from actually being foreshadowed pretty blatantly) was because he actually saved lukes life and died in the process. he did a good thing and died because of it. meanwhile shin, he still fought ken right up until the end and acted like nothing was out of the ordinary until he was literally seconds from dying. at least raoh had it built up to a little bit, like jesus fucking christ.

now, i will say that the arc from roughly jagi's introduction to the first fight with raoh is the best fist of the north star gets. if you're thinking about watching the show but don't wanna commit to 150ish episodes, i'd recommend watching from the beginning right up until the end of the first raoh fight. i feel like that's still be a pretty compelling 50 or so episodes, and it has literally all the best bits within it. honestly kinda sad that the show peaks approximately 1/3 of the way through it, but what can you do. anyways, enough backhanded compliments; jagi is probably the best all around villain in this series. he's an absolute bastard, he's one of the first characters in the entire show to just straight up pull a normal gun on people, and he inspires one of the most cathartic moments in the entire show. this is around when we first get into like, the soap opera shit, right? first it's a bit contrived but still cool as hell that rei is a new nanto seiken practitioner, aside from That One Scene he fills the deuteragonist role pretty nicely and is honestly the gold standard by which the rest of the series' guys can be judged off of. he's no ein or juza, but to be fair basically nobody is.

anyways like, that cathartic moment i was talking about. it was just after jagi admitted to ken, taunting him with the fact that he's actually the reason shin kidnapped yuria, and he's the reason yuria died. this, alongside the "actually the main character has 3 secret brothers that we just havent mentioned until now, and theyre ALSO hokuto shinken practitioners" is very like. soap opera/bad fanfic-y, right? but it works because in execution, it's still pulled off well, and we're still nowhere near the bullshit horizon we'd skyrocket past by the end of the series. so, when ken's finally killing jagi, there's a moment where he says something to the effect of "this is for yuria, and...." and you just know what he's about to say next, but he hesitates, and when he finally says it it's so damn satisfying, "and for me!" and the thing is that it's a deeply compelling moment for a variety of reasons.

so, the thing with fist of the north star is that, in a lot of ways, it's very analogous to a superman story where the question is almost never "will the main character lose this fight" because he's so insanely fucking broken, right? the real question is, "will this character protect those he cares about in time", that's where the tension comes from, and it comes from the fact that he is in fact a hero. that's how you write a compelling overpowered protagonist, you give him either people to love or just a love and respect for all life in general and so that always gives you stakes. i get that to a lot of people, the question of "will ken save this nameless chicken farmer?" isn't a very compelling one. but to me, it is, because he cares so deeply about it that i start caring about it. in the words of aphex twin, "i care because you do".

so, the thing is up until now ken is a very selfless character. it's to such an exaggerated degree that it becomes fairly evident that he has very little regard for his own safety or wellbeing. in the first arc, aside from helping whoever he happens across he's motivated exclusively by rescuing yuria. every fight he has up to this point isn't even for himself, really, and there's something almost sad about that. he doesn't allow himself to have needs. so it's actually very satisfying to see this strong, principled man admit that he has in fact been hurt, and that he's not just doing good for those around him but for himself as well. and it's a very natural character progression that you don't even realize is happening but also makes complete sense. there's something deeply compelling to me about a man so devoted to helping others that he has to actively learn how to live for himself, y'know? i feel like that's a relatable struggle to a lot of people, really

i will say i have one gripe about the jagi fight, and it's that it's almost perfect except for the fact that jagi dies laughing. at first it's seeming like he's gonna die in agonizing misery like he deserves, and it's satisfying well up until the point he starts to laugh on the way out. and like, i understand why it was done that way, and i'm pretty sure it was meant to be haunting, but it honestly just felt like it undercut an otherwise great moment, y'know? i want that motherfucker suffering god damnit, its what he deserves.

there's not much to say about the arc up until the first raoh fight, really. toki is really fucking cool, i love me my apocalypse karate jesus boy, and the fight with that uighur guy was really good setting aside the weird racial thing of having a character that's of a certain ethnicity and just naming them that ethnicity. like, imagine if there was just a guy in a show named Jew, and he's canonically supposed to be jewish but it's never really addressed, like that'd be weird right

i will say, the raoh fight was fucking precious, easily the best part of the entire series. it has this amazing and complex rhythm to it, where every character who tries to fight raoh ends up trying their own self sacrificial bullshit move only to be thwarted by the next guy, until there's essentially like 3 or 4 different fights going on at the same time. it's also nice seeing ken get straight up hard countered for once, like straight up he gets just as fucked up as raoh does and it makes raoh that much cooler of a villain. up to this point, ken is like, essentially invincible. he's basically post apocalypse aikido jesus, poking people so hard that their disabilities are cured and punching people so hard that their entire bodies explode like he's got the bloody mess perk. so to see someone even break even with him is a damn impressive thing, it instantly establishes your villain credentials y'know?

the thing about raoh is that i love him, very much, but i very much hate how he was handled near the end. the fights with him after the first one are very eh, the penultimate one is close to satisfying but then there's that whole "and then he randomly got away with yuria and now he's gone!!!" bullshit, and i get what the final one was going for and it's kind of built up to but i still didn't exactly like it, y'know? for what it's worth, raoh's redemption arc was probably the most well set up in the entire series, but it still wasn't actually y'know. good. like, the way we're introduced to him is by him being Ken-Oh, King of Fists, and he's this fucking tyrant who recruits people to be his slaves by giving them the ultimatum of "willingly brand yourself as my property and then be my slave for the rest of your short life or get burnt to death", and we're shown that his goons are inches away from burning lin, a literal baby child, to death. and we're supposed to just buy that he's actually not that bad at the end???

like, something i wish this series would just fucking do would be to have their villains just fucking own their villainy right up till the end. they do it before the end!!! one of the first bits with shin has him literally monologuing about how cool & good it is to be evil before busting out one of the greatest evil laughs i've ever heard from a voice actor in any media ever. the best villains are pretty consistently That kind of evil, like the kind of evil that'd make the average disney executive go "hey maybe we can chill a bit out here real quick", and that'd be wonderful if they were unrepentant about it!! it feels really forced!!! imagine if like, frieza, before the bitter end, went all "hmm, maybe i do regret blowing up planets and spending my days being space hitler...." that wouldn't've fucking worked!!! there is, in fact, such an intense degree of evil in fiction that it just doesn't make sense for them to immediately go "hmm yeah i'm a good guy now. right before i die. how about that :)". it's deeply unsatisfying every fucking time, like my god

there's something to be said about the queer coding in this show. i remember in one of the earlier episodes, there was this bear dressed as a BDSM cop and his two goons were scantily clad twinks, and internally i went "haha that's kinda gay" before he straight up kisses random dudes before he kills them. and it hit me like "oh. he IS gay..." and it's like. i don't think that's even the gayest thing in the series, really. there's that one scene where two fang clan dudes are checking out rei and the one with the binoculars is like "woah, this guy's real pretty!" and the other dude is all "well, not as pretty as me right bro???". and then there's just yuda, in general. relatively uninteresting villain, but him dying in rei's arms admitting that his motivation in trying to kill him was that he was the only other man who he found beautiful, like. i don't think there's a heterosexual way to interpret that, really! and that's even setting aside the hideous makeup he's always in! and that's not even mentioning yuria's brother wanting to "see what she(yuria) saw in him (ken)" and as a consequence, wanting to die by his hands. also ein is a bisexual icon who canonically thinks ken has a pretty face and i love that for him

the next bit after yuda was, i believe, souther and shu. now, i think souther might've been the only villain to outright defeat ken up to this point, and i think there's something that could've been interesting about that if souther just wasn't like, aggressively fucking boring. i think he's also the introduction to ki blasts, so that's cool, but the most interesting bits about the souther arc were the bits with shu. shu was a homie, very speedwagon-esque in terms of vibes if not functionality, i liked watching him at work. i will say that shu was probably the point where nanto seiken was wearing out its welcome, we're at like 4 or 5 guys whose main deal was nanto seiken and their entire fighting style could essentially boil down to "cut em into bits" and the only real variation was the shape of the bits people were cut into. i think this might've been the prevailing attitude at the time too, because they definitely pivot away from nanto seiken after this in favor of other, usually dumber martial arts

i will say that this series is, usually, very good about respecting character deaths. with one piss stained exception, characters pretty much always die and stay dead forever, meanwhile i feel like in series less committed to death mattering would've still had toki or rei around by the end of it. the exception is, of course, yuria. it was to give yuria and ken a happy ending, at least for a little while, and honestly while i kinda hate the concept the execution was still fairly competent so i didn't outright dislike it overall. i think it's stupid and retcon-y and at times feels like yet another excuse to make shin seem like less of a bad guy, but it still felt nice to know that yuria got the spend the last few years of her life with the man she loved

i liked ryuga for what he was, mostly just because he wasn't yet another fucking nanto seiken user. he's probably about on par with the elemental guys that'd go on to die to raoh, juza excluded. which brings me to, the man who is tied for Best Boy, juza of the clouds! i.e., my current profile pic. i like juza. he's probably the best thing to come from the series post the Peak arc of jagi to raoh. one of my first criticisms of the characters in this show was something to the effect of "look, if you're a handsome, muscular guy who's also ungodly fucking powerful in terms of martial arts in a world where martial arts is fucking magic, And you're in a post apocalypse? all i'm saying is that you could have basically any girl you wanted CONSENSUALLY, like seriously shin just ditch yuria and build yourself a harem of all the women that look exactly like her". and juza did exactly that, and i love him for it. i'd like to think i'd be like juza, in his universe, not quite the top of the totem pole in terms of raw power but still well above every normal person, saving women from being abused and letting them join my harem if they want, living in a fucking castle with a pool/bathing house? that's the dream, man. that's the fucking dream.

now, that's setting aside juza's whole "wanting to fuck his sister" thing. like, to be fair, yuria's his half sister, but seriously dude what the fuck is it with everyone in this show and yuria. ken and all 3 of his brothers were into her, juza was into her, shin was into her, if there is a man in this show and he knows yuria there's like an 80% chance that he wants her. what's the fucking appeal? like yeah, she's pretty, sure, but so are all the women in this show!!! personally i'd rather date like, a martial artist lady who could actually defend herself, but that could just be me. well, that's like the only thing wrong about juza to me, and honestly while that's a pretty significant flaw you can still say he's literally one thing away from being flawless, so that's pretty cool. god i love him

now's about when we get into hokuto no ken 2, where the main difference is that lin and bat are actually useful now and i'm pretty sure lin wants to fuck kenshiro now, which still weirds me the fuck out. my other favorite character in this show, ein, is the most american fucker on earth. like literally he wears an american flag suit, has blonde hair and blue eyes, is a fucking bounty hunter, and literally rides around on a killdozer driven by what i'm pretty sure is a slave. literally cannot get more american than that, i just hope that the slave guy is like a former bandit or something. little known fact about me, one of my biggest turn ons in a piece of fiction is when a character is a bounty hunter. something about bounty hunters just fuckin gets my brain goin, y'know? i remember when i played the GTA online bounty hunter quests, they were straight up some of the most fun i've had with GTAV and i still think i'd enjoy playing a game where that's the main mechanic. also, at first glance he's a wife guy, but it turns out he's a loving father which makes him even better. it's even acknowledged in universe that he's cool as hell!!! i love him dearly

viceroy jakoh is a decent villain. he's enjoyable to see die, at least. we also meet falco, who's a homie, and honestly i think it's pretty badass that he's a canonically disabled character who's shown to be strong and capable and yet is still clearly held back by his disability. he's a bit like a proto edward elric, in that regard. honestly one of the most sharp inhale inducing scenes of the show was when jakoh swept his prosthetic out from under him and then proceeded to beat the shit out of him, frankly that was an egregious way to make a villain hateable and it was honestly very effective in that regard. gento koken is ok i guess. at least it's not nanto seiken. honestly that whole "celestial emperor" thing felt rather contrived, but eh.

ok so, around this point in the show is when one of its worst aspects really starts to become apparent. so like, it starts out relatively normally when ken is shown to have a few brothers that we didnt know about. it's not that absurd, it makes some amount of sense, the hokuto brothers remain some of the best characters in the entire fucking show. and now all of a sudden, yuria has a brother we didnt know about, and a half brother, and now we meet raoh and ken's biological bigger brothers and after a certain point it just feels like bad self insert fanfic, y'know? and that's what kaioh is to me, it feels like somebody thought raoh was cool and thought "heh, what if i made my own OC that's raoh but even BIGGER and STRONGER and MORE EVIL", like that's what kaioh feels like to me. and then ken's bio brother is just ok, i already forgot his name despite it not being that long since i watched the final arc

but the thing is that kaioh is just like, arguably the most cartoonishly evil villain out of the entire fucking series, seemingly completely unrepentant, literally regularly talks about existing in the "Dark World", straight up kills his own sister just to make ken's brother wanna kill ken, the dude is just bitter and evil the whole way down, so when he pulls that "i just want 2 play on the played ground" bullshit it rings especially hollow even by the standards of the show. god, fuck kaioh, he's just poorly executed overall

the biggest part of hnk2 that i actually liked was shachi. i liked how he was essentially a stupid kid that lucked into being taught unearthly powers basically on par with hokuto shinken, and as such got a big head over it even though at his core he was still a good kid. hokuto ryuken sure felt fuckin contrived, it kinda felt like the writer(s?) noticed how the hokuto brothers were some of the best, most interesting characters in in the original series, and were just like "yeah let's do that but again", and while i guess it doesn't not work it also doesn't work all that well either. hokuto ryuken sounds cool though, even if "north star lapis lazuli fist" doesn't.

another thing i liked about the last parts of the show were that, while definitely not martial art wizards, bat and lin were still deeply competent fighters and put up a consistently good fight against Real Fucking Fighters, which you really wouldn't expect from bat's cowardly ass growing up. i will say that i always thought lin would make a good successor to hokuto shinken, but that might just be wishful thinking. there is a quite prevalent undercurrent of misogyny in this series, and while i understand that it wasn't exactly uncommon in the 80s, i gotta say that i still feel like they could've done better. i dunno

all of this is to say that i liked fist of the north star, very very much. i'm not sure i could recommend it without a laundry list of caveats and disclaimers, but i will say that if my interminable bitching hasn't put you off of it, it's probably for you. it's got a lot of good fights, it scratches that little kid part of your brain that thinks it's so cool to see a guy get kicked in the dick so hard that his entire body explodes, it has great music and mostly competent writing. if you think about it too hard, you will cry, so don't do that, just go along for buronson's wild ride and fuckin enjoy yourself. i probably wouldn't recommend it to someone who's not like, already an anime fan and already likes shonen though. it feels very of its genre, if that makes sense. which i guess it should, given how foundational to shonen in its modern forms as it was

[icewindandboringhorror]

my personal Media Genres tier ranking and also Neopets Species tiers. put together in the same post just due to being adjacently related because they're on the same website lol

links to the specific tier makers: Media Genres --- Neopets

[lovestuckyhatemarvel]

People acting like literally any moderation on a site is censorship is bonkers to me. I’ve seen literal porn sites with hardcore rules about content that still allow LGBT+ content and even fanfiction. Like truly I’ve never gotten anyone to be able to give me a reason that isn’t being terrified of the ghost of Anne Rice or just insisting someone should be able to post their extremely underage choose not to use archive warnings fic where H*rry P*tter/S*pernatural characters are graphically gabused into oblivion at the age of seven or whatever.

[todayisafridaynight]

confession: sometimes I come to look at your art as references because you have noted details like moles + looking at what colors u put down in my quest to find what something looks like under neutral lighting I know the shit here has been thoroughly researched

i will be normal upon learning this news.

[eviltothecore13]

lots of people in this fandom CLAIM to love Gomez but when someone makes a post with Morticia as "Barbie is everything" and Gomez as "he's just Ken", it gets likes and reblogs

like...isn't that meme essentially saying "he's bland and boring/doesn't do anything interesting/is no good at anything and has nothing special about him, and no-one cares about him that much because he's just some bland generic guy with no personality beyond being a sidekick"?

do the majority of fans genuinely believe Gomez has no personality and no interesting traits?

[poefred]

I H*ecking Hate Sonic Frontiers

How do I go decades defending Sonic endlessly only to end up in a Twilight Zone episode where everyone not only DOESN’T think this is a new low for the series, but also that it’s one of the best Sonic games ever?! Dude Forces came out coming on 6 years ago and everyone rightfully trashed on that game’s shallow, lazy level design and complete lack of originality riddled with recycled assets.

But the series goes on hiatus for 5 years and comes out with another batch of 30 levels that ALL flat out suck. Forces had 30 levels and 5 of them were green hill and 5 of them were chemical plant. But in frontiers 10 of them are green hill and 8 are Chemical Plant. It’s not even just that they’re reusing these level themes AGAIN. But that they’re less than a minute long, and are so shallow and worthless that they don’t even try to reach the incredibly muted “highs” of Forces. Frontiers levels unironically make Forces look like an exciting ambitious game in comparison. How do you have such an embarassing showing and get this jaded fanbase on your side? 

Well the game’s fans will simply respond those 30 levels aren’t the core of the game. Which, fair enough. The majority of the game takes place in the "open zones” But oh wait, the level design is EVEN WORSE here! Go play literally other sonic game, and it’ll feel like an actual adventure. But frontiers is just running around in an empty open world touching enough 5 second automatic levels floating in the sky until you’ve gotten the arbitrary number of progression maguffins. The only thing breaking this gameplay loop up is combat, and challenges. Well the combat is one step removed from the nicktoons unite type combat seen in sonic boom rise of lyric. Give sonic a couple flashy animations attached to attacks that are all functionaly identical, and people are tricked into thinking it’s more than just a mindless button masher. Sure some of the bigger enemy encounters have different things going on. But every single one of them is so heavily scripted that even the odd decent battle, is boring to fight even a 2nd time. This carries over to the super sonic battles, which just show all you need is a lightshow and tryhard music for people to ignore the fact that nothing is happening. First of all the ENTIRE point of super Sonic battles is that you have to beat the boss before you run out of rings, which always start at 50. You’re supposed to be picking up rings as you fight so you won’t die as they’re constantly draining. But in frontiers you can just run in circles and fill up your ring meter to 400 before the fight and have no worry of running out. And the mechanics are no different than when you’re fighting a low level grunt enemy, it’s the EXACT SAME button mash combat seen everywhere else. Oh yeah the parry requires no timing btw. Meaning the optimal strat is to stand there holding parry waiting for the enemy to hit you, which triggers your counter attack, which is your strongest hitting single move. And when the boss is half dead it triggers some light show that doesn’t even effect the fight whatsoever. Just put more moving lights on the screen and now it’s cooler. Jiggle the keys in front of babies face to keep it entertained! There’s one bit in the third boss where you have to grab a constantly moving blade and aim it back at the boss to hit it. Literally the only time the game ever asks you to do anything at all and it immediately stuns the boss and lets you button mash it to death.

And the challenges I can’t believe don’t get hated on. How do so many people go 20 years hating every sonic game after sa2 but when a sonic game gives you 60 seconds to hold left in a hamster wheel for 2 seconds NOW you’re a fan again? Oh maybe the first hamster wheel didn’t do it for you. You weren’t convinced until they copy pasted the wheel 4 more times. (The variety is very lacking) Bet you guys were really pogging the 3rd time it tested your ability to hold the parry button down...? Or how about those apparently super cool moments where it gives you 70 seconds to run somewhere that only takes 8 seconds to reach, with no obstacles or anything between the start and finish. Nah it must be the 7th time you did a walking puzzle that’s slightly more complex than the same ones seen in sonic boom rise of lyric, but much less complex than the club penguin minigame using the same concept.

Don’t even get me started on the story and fishing minigame. I could make another wall of text about both but this has gone on long enough so I’ll keep it short. But the story is exhaustingly boring and pretentious. Ian Flynn clearly attempted to fix the sorry state the previous writers left the series in. But he was given nothing to work with. The game takes place on a nondescript island that doesn’t resemble anything sonic related at all, and clearly no actual budget for cutscenes. Meaning all he can do is just awkwardly reference past games about as smoothly as a family guy cutaway gag, to sloppily establish pretty much everything is canon. But that just does more damage to the series continunity than ever. There was a very clear intended reboot, ignoring that makes it all a complete mess. Sonic’s voice direction makes him sound like a tired old man who doesn’t want to do it anymore. One of the only major events in the story is that Sonic is getting weaker and weaker as he saves his friends and uncovers the history of the island. Already lame enough that it doesn’t fit in with gameplay at all. Sonic could be about to keel over in the cutscene, barely able to even walk anymore, but the second it fades out into gameplay you’re gonna be running at full speed like nothing’s wrong. Worse than that though is the second Sonic can’t take it anymore and it becomes a real problem, it’s cured in the same cutscene. This shows me the mandates that say Sonic can never lose, and if he’s ever behind must immediately regain the upper hand, is stil in place. Meaning no matter how they dress it up, any dramatic moments are going to be as impactful as the null space bit in forces. Y’know that bit where sonic’s sucked into the void of nothingness forever only to escape literally 20 seconds later effortlessly. Except at least that played into a style over substance appeal and was very quick instead of dragged out throughout the entire game as a major plot point. Even Eggman’s character is unfun to watch here. Usually an inherently charming, charismac character, reduced to a direction that’s dreadfully melodramatic, and frankly kind of gross.

The fishing is just playing into *it’s not a good game if it doesn’t have fishing* and also *ecks dee big the cat*  memes and has no depth and is actually so broken you can fish for ten minutes and be overpowered for the rest of the game. And mechanically it’s THE most embarassing fishing minigame ever put into a game. Sonic fans will go *oh well it’s just an optional side mode who cares*. Bro that’s not an excuse, everybody’s golf has a more robust fishing system all around. It’s being outclassed by a GOLFING game. Comparisons don’t get better against anything else. Especially not when Ocarina of Time had a pretty decent fishing hole back in 1998 on the n64.  Like look, I’m not expecting an actual simulator here, fishing is usually very simple in many of the games its featured in (which is a LOT of games these days). But this flat out NOT a fishing minigame. It’s literally just functionally a loot box. You don’t have to aim for the fish, there’s no care given to what kind of fish would be in the same ecosystem, THERE’S NO DUPLICATES.... You press A, press A again, and you pull out a random object, half the time not even a fish. You very quickly realize that it’s just giving you items down a list until you’ve gotten them all. You’re not fishing, you’re opening loot boxes with a fishing skin. And to make absolutely sure every corner of this game is devoid of any substance whatsoever...The coins you have to find to be able to pay for fishing....are given to you in the hundreds for free every few nights during an event that’s impossible to fail.

This isn’t the extent of my complaints, that’s enough though. I’ve literally played every single sonic game and frontiers is the only one I absolutely hated. Free Riders on Kinect is a better experience by a long shot. This game is the definition of “My expectations were low but holy f*rick!” How did perception on this game go from “This game looks like trash” when it was first shown off to being THE most universally well recieved game in the entire series?!?? NOTHING CHANGED. The world still sucks, the level design sucks, the story is stupid and boring....Every single thing it does is just something that was hated in Forces, or taken from MUCH better games and done as bad as possible. Why do people like this game? I literally say “I’m begging you to explain why you like this game” to people and they can’t do it. “oh it’s the best sonic game in years!” BRO IT’S THE ONLY SONIC GAME IN YEARS THIS SERIES IS DEAD. WE’VE WASTED 10 YEARS ON FORCES AND FRONTIERS. Forces took 4 years to make for some reason, frontiers took another 5. They’re going to be updating forces with likely filler worthless content for the next year instead of making another game. This series was putting out better content when they were releasing 2-3 games a year every year. It’s crystal clear to me that Sonic boom did an obscene amount of damage to Sega financially and they were out of money for Sonic. The last few years were literally just desperate fund raising to make enough money to even finish frontiers. How are people so pessimistic and down on the series to say there hasn’t been anything good since sa2, yet this bottom of the barrel unity asset flip garbage got EVERYONE back????? Like dude even other games I flat out hate, which mind you is honestly not that many in the grand scheme of the industry...I at least understand why a certain audience might like it.  Even my most despized games I can go *well this audience is into it and I understand why their taste makes them find it enjoyable and that’s fine* But there’s NOTHING here. Frontiers is EVERYTHING people hate about Forces/modern sonic and more. The music isn’t even good. There’s a select few tracks that are cool but a major majority of the ost is the cyberspace levels. Kind of hard to make any stand out iconic tracks worthy of Sonic’s musical legacy when you have to write 30 songs that play over the same 40 second long green hill zone level over and over again.

[gleppy]

me: there is no type of person i hate more than somebody who refuses to take accountability for their actions

the universe: awesome. you're going to only deal with people like that for the rest of your life, jsyk.

me: awesome. thanks.