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lil-melody-moon · 6 years ago

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Answer 11 questions, write 11 questions of your own, then tag 11 people.

I was tagged by @passionatelyinnocent Thanks sweetie I love such things! So here we go! :D

1. Do you care more about the music or the lyrics of a song?

Music. If I like certain song it's because of its melody first, lyrics comes second. That's why I like rock/heavy metal bands. They can make melodies which are stuck with me for a long long time.

2. What is something you recommend someone? It could be anything!

I am always recommending ignorance for my friends who are stressed out. It's a great thing to do especially when you're stressing yourself out because of exams. You are in state which puts you at specific ease and then exams are far easier. Also calming tea helps with it too!

3. Best advice you can give to someone?

Don't rush with life and don't expect much from it. What will appear in it is up to fate and no one can change that. Just go with your life and see what it has for you.

4. Gush about something! Anything!

You asked for it! Let's talk about Transformers shall we?! OUO Nah joking if I had to really talk about it I would write a long essay (something around 10 pages if not more xD) so I will try to cut it short. First and foremost it's my childhood. Only a little piece of it since I was so "lucky" to see two and a half of Cybertron episode (half of 40th episode and then 50th and 51st, it was like that because I accidentally saw it on tv) when I was 8, but that was enough for me to remember it and hold a special place for it in my heart (even though I forgot about it for solid 12 years) until I met one of my best friends, Marta. She brought me into this series again and I reminded myself of what I saw when I was a kid and let me tell you. Rediscovering what you saw as kid and thought was cool now was the best! >U< I still love episode 40 of Transformers Cybertron and it will be always my favorite episode >u< Also I love the main antagonist of it, Megatron's the best X3

5. Favorite food/s?

One word. FISH OUO

6. Do you like movies or TV shows more?

TV shows are far better since they have much more time than a movie to develop the world, characters and the plot. Also it can have very nice plot twists even after a very long run :D

7. Have you ever met anyone famous?

Nope but I wish I would. It would be a nice experience

8. What would be the most amazing adventure to go on?

To find some treasure in abandon city. I know it may sound like a simple horror plot, but just imagine being in a city where people lived in a long time ago and find things they have left behind when moving to bigger city. So exciting >u<

9. What do you wish you knew more about?

I wish I knew more about English language in general. I am not a native speaker and I like this language. It would be nice to be a pro at it -u-

10. What is the most heartwarming thing you’ve ever seen?

In real world the love my best friend was giving to her old rabbit. He was such a charming fluff ball and she loved him with all of her heart. In fiction probably the things I am writing. I am keeping quiet about my writing since I am nervous about sharing it but I guess I can tell it now. I have nothing to lose. I’m writing mostly fanfics with canon character x oc. Usually when I see that something in canon needs fixing to let me feel better like death of certain character I like or when the character is lonely. I can say that I have a slight trauma if it comes to fictional deaths and since I like antagonists this thing is happening very very often (if not always) so I want to save them and also give them someone who they can relay on. Back to the point of this question what heartwarming I see in it. The moments when I can use my oc to cheer up the character I like, see them together all calm and just see that she will be by his side no matter what (yes, these pairings are female x male) and since I am lonely for most of my life these little things are like little lights which push away that darkness of loneliness inside me ;u;

11. Who has impressed you most with what they’ve accomplished?

Definitely my mom. Maybe most of people don't consider their parents as good ones but I have the best mom I could ever wish for. She has been supporting me from the very beginning and even if she didn't expect anything big from life she got what she wanted and I want to accomplish the same thing.

Here are my questions: 1. What is the best thing you remember from your childhood? 2. Do you have any character you share similar or the same character traits? 3. What is the tv show/video game you’re constantly coming back to after short periods of break? 4. What do you think about robots? 5. If you had a chance to create something which would make you happy, what would it be? 6. Do you have anything you would change in your favorite tv show/movie/video game? 7. Which one do you prefer? Live action tv shows/movies or animated tv shows/movies? 8. What do you think about writing? 9. Do you have any plushies? 10. Are you a pessimist or optimist? 11. What would you tell to someone who you can’t see in real life if you two met?

I tag: @amiiera @heavyslam35 @clusterfullofblueberries @baekuras @kitetenjofan17 @dragontamer05 @shinakazami1 @stalwolf @prussian-lullaby @yu-gi-omg and @gundilias

Feel free to do it, I won’t force and to those who will do it, have fun :D

#taggy tag

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goron-king-darunia · 4 years ago

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The Tales games are some of the best to come out of Japan, though some of the mainline games are better than others. Here’s our ranking of the best Tales games.

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Annon-Guy: Found this a while back.

Bet you disagree with what the ‘worst’ title is though.

======================================= GKD: It’s gentler to DotNW than some other rankings I’ve seen. I tend not to trust people that like Vespiria best “because the writing is good” to like DotNW at all because they’re looking for some VERY different things in the narrative than I am and most definitely will not like Emil as a protagonist if they like Yuri as a protagonist. I agree that Abyss belongs pretty high on the rankings along with Symphonia and I agree with the rankings of the other games I’m at least aware of (I haven’t played most of the titles yet but I’m planning to and know a decent amount through osmosis.) Most people that don’t like DotNW tend to have the same few complaints: “Lloyd bad? No! GAME BAD!” Like... Lloyd stans, I love y’all, but I know a fair chunk of people refused to play the game because they heard Lloyd was the villain and instead of going “that’s not Lloyd, Lloyd would never do that, I wonder who it actually is or if we’re playing as the real bad guys.” a lot of them went “That’s not Lloyd, Lloyd would never do that. Therefore the game is bad for implying Lloyd is any different than the Lloyd I loved playing as.” This ties into the second group of people that don’t like DotNW for the “nostalgia goggles” reason. Symphonia was probably their first Tales game and they loved it so much that this game not being everything they wanted out of a sequel made them so disenchanted with it that they can’t enjoy the parts of it that make it a separate game and just see all those parts as “places they could have made it MORE like the game I loved” instead of “Ah yes, the new content that’s good on its own and is kind of ruined by the fact they tried to cram the old cast in here for me.” Then there are the people who hate the mechanics which is... fair but... unless a game’s mechanics have made it impossible for me to do something because of a poorly timed button press (see the rope swinging levels of Wind Waker which were easy for me as a kid and make me want to scream as an adult with slower reflexes.) I’ve never hated a game for the mechanics alone. If people find the game unplayable or unpolished because the mechanics don’t gel or aren’t intuitive? That’s fine. That’s just not something I’ve ever had a problem with before. Then there are people who hate the story. These people and I will never see eye-to-eye because apart from a few unanswered questions, which kind of leave intrigue more than frustration, Marta’s development being completely shoved into the journal and a few skits, and some of the best content (the Alice and Decus and Richter sidequests) being too easy to miss, the story is one of my favorite things about the game if not my FAVORITE thing. Maybe they like the plot to spell everything out for them. Or maybe they like even more vagueries. Maybe they want more twists like in Symphonia. Maybe they want a straightforward narrative and hated the plot contrivances. I’d be curious how the haters of DotNW’s story would react to the original Baten Kaitos and the prequel Origins, because I think it would be about the same. I think Symphonia lovers would like BK but not Origins and DotNW lovers would like Origins and either dislike or just kinda enjoy the original BK. And then there are the people who hate DotNW because of Emil. And again, I don’t think I’ll ever see eye-to-eye with them. Emil’s development as a character is almost perfect to me. IDK if people just happen to prefer silent-protags with snarker options like some of the new Links from the Legend of Zelda series, or just hated having to play in the shoes of someone who wasn’t always heroic, but I honestly LOVE when a game doesn’t give me just a cookie-cutter protag like Lloyd. If a game wants the protag to be a version of me? Then I want things like the Elder Scrolls where you can customize a fair bit about your character including the dialogue, even if it’s just window dressing. If the game wants me to play as a character they invented? I want that little bugger to be interesting. I want to get attached. And DotNW does that for me with Emil. Baten Kaitos did it for me with Kalas. I don’t need them to be perfect. I need them to be interesting. I don’t need them to be my mouthpiece, I need them to be fun to watch. Sonic the Hedgehog is a perfect example of that. Sonic’s personality is completely independent of my actions in the game. He’s a free-spirited 90s kid who likes to go fast, though his exact aesthetic seems to update depending on the demographic playing since he wasn’t always a 90′s kid aesthetic. XD To me, the entire point of DotNW is watching Emil grow (it would be nice if it was about watching EVERYBODY GROW, like Marta and Richter and even the original cast.) Having Emil start out as a whimpering little “coward” and watching him grow as he learns more about himself, the world, and how he fits into that world is so good. Lloyd was always kind of cut out to be a hero especially because the plot bent around him to ensure basically anything and everything he wanted was “the right choice.” Lloyd never had to change. He never had to grow. He stuck to what he believed and made the world change around him. I guess that’s powerful to some people, believing they can change the world and are already perfect as they are. But Lloyd never struck a chord with me the way Emil did. And before I started liking Colette more, Zelos was my fave from Symphonia because he WASN’T PERFECT but also wasn’t a shitty dad like Kratos. XD Emil was WAY more captivating and engaging because HE HAD TO CHANGE to make the world around him change. He had to go from being Ratatosk - a powerful summon spirit, alone, depressed, enraged, vengeful, completely broken after what happened to him - to a human boy - timid, weak, but caring an passionate - and then spent the entire game becoming a synergy of those two aspects. Merging the best of both sides into something BETTER. Perhaps getting closer to what Ratatosk was before his tree died. Mithos did say that Emil’s kindness and Ratatosk’s strength and confidence are what he remembers most about the original Ratatosk. So Emil might not have gotten fully back to that, hell he may NEVER be that Ratatosk again, but the fact that he PUT HIMSELF BACK TOGETHER AT ALL, the fact that he didn’t have to become unkind to be strong again and the fact that he didn’t have to stay weak to keep his kindness was VERY POWERFUL as was the message that kindness is a strength of its own, maybe even more powerful than physical strength, because it’s only when the characters show each other kindness that things really seem to change (and kindness takes COURAGE which as we know is the magic that turns dreams into reality.) Like... the game was SO MUCH MORE about emotional beats. So as much as I like the original Symphonia, the OVA is WAY better because Lloyd actually has a bit more personality and HAS TO CHANGE if only a little bit, though he still has MASSIVE plot armor. DotNW might fair better as an OVA since it could linger on the emotional aspects I liked a lot more and it might provide that separation for people who just hated DotNW because it “made them play as a sniveling brat.” And then there are people that hate it for the monster-catching thing. Which was like a bonus for me because I love Pokemon but like... if you don’t like catching Monsters then just... don’t? I sucked at catching Monsters and I still got strong enough that the later half of the game was manageable my first time around. If you don’t like your “worse version of Pokemon” then just... don’t use that mechanic. You can level up enough by grinding like the original Symphonia to get strong enough for the rest of the game. I’m sorry you joyless people don’t like adventures with cute critters. The monsters, other than Richter and Emil, are my fave characters in the game because they’re ALL SO CUTE! XD But yeah. These aren’t all the reasons I’ve heard, and just because I disagree doesn’t mean they’re not valid reasons. Liking or not liking DotNW is an opinion and everyone is allowed to have an opinion. People can like what they want and dislike what they want. So I was glad to see an opinion piece that didn’t eviscerate DotNW off-hand (some critics never even played the game and this person at least seems familiar with the controls so they played at least a bit.) It’s still always sad when people don’t like DotNW, and it’s especially sad since a lot of DotNW’s fans are the JP audience that I can’t talk to very easily because I’m an American idiot that only speaks basic Spanish and only knows minimal Japanese from being a teenaged weeb. But I’m happy that at least this particular critic recommends the game for Symphonia fans, even if they didn’t like it themself. I’m also very happy that Bamco made it a main title and not a spin off so it’s canon now and people can stop saying the game doesn’t matter or doesn’t count because they didn’t like it. I’m fine with them still hating it, but they have to at least acknowledge that this is a story the developers wanted to tell in line with the main series and not just “something they made because Symphonia made lots of money.” I do think that DotNW would have done better with the USA and European audience if the team had gone with their original idea and set it far enough in the future that the Symphonia crew wasn’t there or that only the half-elves and possibly Lloyd and Colette (or Zelos since he’s technically an angel too) were there. Emil’s story, Richter’s story, and (the good parts of) Marta’s story are all interesting enough that they could be told without the Symphonia cast being involved at all. That being said, I LIKE the old cast being there. But because they had to change the old cast to fit the new narrative, I know that it disappointed a LOT of people who were expecting “more of the same” from the old cast and didn’t get it. So while I love the game as-is and wouldn’t change it, if it had been released according to the original vision and NOT had the original Symphonia cast in it, I think it would have been at least a little bit more well-recieved.

#submissions #submission #DotNW #opinions #long post #Letters from Annon Guy #I got nothing against Vesperia fans #It just never captured my heart the way DotNW did #but maybe I should give the remaster a play and see if I like it more?#IDK it's just a weird trend that a LOT of Vespy fans don't seem to like DotNW AT ALL

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