Wolf Kanno
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I mean, I still haven't beaten the game, so we might get more. The Wild Hunt in general is a cool concept, but it just gets explored much more in the books - but is also kind of a secondary thing, so it's neat how the game brings it to the forefront. I'm just surprised so many people enjoy this game so much when the game's presentation of the antagonist so far feels fairly simple if you don't know the stuff Geralt knows at this point.

And as for shinchan - that's amusing since it's usually the opposite XD And those Ghost Story scenes were amazing. As one YouTube commenter put it: "Ghost Story: The Otiginal Abridged Series"

Another thing I noticed that really reinforces my opinion that it's much better to play the Witchers after reading the books - in the games themselves, the main villain feels really flat. He's like a generic tin titan that has like, two lines per game and does stuff just for the sake of being evil. But if you know the things you would from encountering him in the books, he becomes much more ambiguous, nuanced, and interesting.

You mean Shin-chan wasn't like that in Japanese?

To be fair, though, now that I'm an adult, my perspective on that being tired is a bit... different

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I'll check out the vide o later. But is that the anime that had the conversation about bunnies and having sex without protection in it?

Yeah. It really hits powerfully. Especially when you see the HP cost for Great Seal...

I still liked those life scenes, tbh, but what 3 did for me is that I really felt it had a much stronger cast - compared to 4 it didn't feel like it was designed to be likeable, but realistic.

Also, keep an eye on Psy's thread, lol. The game is coming very soon and it has my stuff in it

At least you'll be done with this atrocity soon

Nah, I tease a lot, but Persona 1 had some really interesting ideas going for it, it just has certain design quirks that make my blood boil. I certainly appreciate what it was trying to achieve and that the potential it had got expanded on so substantially in the following installments. I might still give it another roll someday. No promises, though

I was also very happy yesterday when my wife told me that although she enjoyed playing P4G more, she thinks 3 had a much better story I'm so glad there are people who give P3 the respect it deserves rather than just remember it as "oh yeah that one game that came before one of the best PS2 RPGs of all time that's pretty skippable".

So how much more do you have left?

Well that's interesting!

I've come to the conclusion that I like jerks in fiction because they're usually more layered than the "nice" protagonists as they really get room for depth and growth - dare I say, it even makes them more realistic. Like, in Witcher 3 your Default love interest is returning from the books and she's kind of a bitch. She's very sarcastic, she does whatever the bell she wants and really doesn't care about anyone else's feelings at all when she's doing her thing. She wants other people to trust her while not trusting anyone herself. It's interesting that she comes back now as another character from the books was the default love interest in the previous two games and she's sweet and kind... too bad she took advantage of the fact that the protagonist forgot everything, including the fact that he loves someone else

So yeah, I'll take the jerky but honest characters over the nice yet manipulative ones any day of the week

Even Yukki is a jerk?