Part of me thinks that maybe IS just think their games are to entertain their audience which yes that's true, let's not kid ourselves. But because of that notion, I don't think they really think of any implications that could come out of their stories unless the audience they care about give them backlash for it.
After Nopes I can't say that I agree,
Fwiw, their home market never expected Clout and Lobotogard, but they loved Billy and Nopes... Well, gave us Clout, pissed on Billy and offered us Lobotogard on a 59 euros platter.
As I mentionned, IS isn't a random confidential studio only releasing things for the jp market, they couldn't ignore anymore that "foreign" people are buying their games.
I don't think they designed Almyra with malicious intent, but the implications are still there and if in the 90s Verdane was a gauche error that could be overlooked for a game exclusively released in Japan, the concept of Almyra in 2019-2022, for an international audience, is more upsetting.
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guess i'll put this here too, even though its past the day in my timezone lol
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Shearing half a sheep seemed a simple way to show a season's growth of wool, but photographer Cary Wolinsky was wrong. The half-shorn sheep tended to lose their balance and topple to wool-ward. It took many tries before merino sheep number 30 “became our hero," Wolinsky said.
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random fire nation diplomat #492 will never understand the complex and fucked up relationship between the water siblings like I do 🙄
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you're going about your normal day when, suddenly, surprise! you've been pokémon mystery dungeon'd!
unfortunately, due to budget cuts, the pokémon assigning quiz has been canceled. instead, you must spin THE WHEEL, assigning you a random, unevolved, non-legendary and non-mythical pokémon. you must now go on some sort of world-saving adventure as this pokémon. good luck!
tell me in the tags what you rolled, and how you feel about it - for bonus points, you can spin the wheel again for (or just take your pick of) a pokémon to be your partner.
bonus rules:
you're not shiny unless the wheel tells you you're shiny
take your pick of regional forms and evolutions (for example, if you roll vulpix, it's up to you whether that means normal or alolan vulpix)
apply whatever logic you like with regards to gender
have fun and be yourself!
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