#speaking of shionne simping tho take a look at this dude (i am pointing my finger at tomizawa)

[konfizry]

legit stumbled upon that interview while looking for something completely unrelated the other day and like. i'd somehow never seen it before lmao. so

Can you believe she took that away from us. we could have had cool mounts in tales of arise but shionne ruined it all. My Dahnan Horse Culture(s) headcanons could have been real but shionne's existence destroyed them. you just know the team was thinking about Cool Zeugles You Can Ride but shionne robbed you of that experience. thats my fave right there.

that being said they're cowards looking for excuses because nothing stops shionne from riding hover bikes and yet they're not in the game either why arent there hover bikes in tales of arise they should have made it so theres a mechanic dude in ulzebek who refurbishes old renan tech gizmos to make hover bikes why isnt that in the game where are my cool hover bikes tomizawa you have no excuse well i guess you do because a faster mode of transportation would have required a much bigger world to go with it soooooo

anyway

so before i say anything else i just wanna take 3 seconds to applaud tomizawa's explaining that the integration of shionne's invincibility into gameplay would have had no practical purpose and then immediately caveating that statement with saying that the opposite would have been interesting as well. the commitment to not ruffling any hypothetical feathers about a feature that did not see the light of day to begin with is impressive, even by japanese PR standards. (and then the man greenlit BtD. i want to dissect him)

that aside bbaaaahahahaha why didnt they put that in the game im not even jokingggg nerds love that stuff. granted, theres a non-zero chance that the end result would have toed the line between heart-breaking and cheesy far too dangerously for any sane person's comfort, but im pretty sure your typical tales of enjoyer has built up enough tolerance to anime melodrama that they withstand the blow of shionne's emo abomination-induced resurrection, complete with an awkward one-liner. i mean we survived basically the rest of the game, why rob us of that particular bit of second-hand embarrassment. after all we've been throught together, tales of series............

but honestly can you imagine confronting that mantis in calaglia for shits and giggles, getting wiped and then shionne stands back up even though its early game and you're pretty sure you dont have skills that would let her do that yet and then she goes "this didnt kill me either.................................." dsfukghrgrg lmao

who am i kidding standing back up and walking away after defeat is what the whole party does anyway since this game has no game over