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antirepurp · 2 months ago

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please tell me it's just my 1am brain making wild conclusions and that the koco plots in frontiers don't paint a weirdly romantic picture of War Times(TM) with the way the choose to handle the subject material. like yeah the ancients all get nuked but like i feel like there's remarkably little of the whole thing where war is fucking terrifying and horrible and a whole lot of "star-crossed lovers reuniting on the battlefield" and "an army general leads his brave troops into battle" and "a presumed pilot deciding to be just like his hero". sonic adventure released in 98 on the dreamcast and that thing portrayed war in horrible detail with every polygon it spat out like what kind of downgrade is this

#soda offers you a can #i enjoy frontiers and i think it's pretty fun however. there are flaws. and i keep discovering more of them every day i think #it's in such a weird position too because it shares a lot of that “lost potential” with games like rol #that im terminally obsessed with and will die on their hills #but frontiers wasn't exactly dev hell'd into oblivion nor does it have the excuse of meddling parties i don't think #games like rol and 06 were very much prevented from being what they could have been #but frontiers is. just like that. despite all that it had going on for it from a development perspective afaik #it's less a case of “they did my boy so dirty but i will love him regardless”#and more a “my boy chose to be this way and while i love him a lot i can't excuse his behavior” perhaps #does any of this make sense. idk #but the frontiers of my dreams would've had much more gruesome war imagery in those koco plots #and like. something interesting with knuckles making connections between his ancestors and the ancients #how the desire to protect and defend is natural but how easily that can be twisted into a corrupted power that consumes

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