Wolf Kanno
is a Level 99 Chocobo
Memento Mori
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I’m all for fan work, honestly. I find the very idea that anyone would want to make something based on a thing I made extremely flattering. But yeah, I think I’d love to be involve in a bigger adaptation project - unless it’s a creator I know and trust. Because I know a firm grip on the original material can be creatively stifling for an adaptation

It’s a mess. I hate it.

I’m always fascinated with the aspect of control over your work, though, and how that works both in the monetary context, as well as the work itself. Like, on the one hand, I’d love my work to be successful enough that people want to adapt it - but then, where do I draw the line? How much control do I want to relent? How much is that control worth?

I’m sure the games can get over the heartbreak with some therapy

So today I learned the author of the Witcher is suing CD Project Red because they’ve made a crap load of money from a game based on his stuff but only rewarded him with a single payment that amounts to a tiny fraction of the Witcher franchise’s worth. While it was his choice back then, because he doesn’t like games and didn’t believe the project would take off, the law is on his side, as Polish law says that if a party gets remuneration that end up being disproportionate to the gains, then the contract can be renegotiated. Imo he’s totally entitled to the money since he created the thing that let CDPR be successful, plus it’s his right, but of course the gaming press and fandom in general are framing it as you’d expect. Gamers, man

I’ve beaten PQ, but I don’t have Apocslypse yet. Might get to that someday.

The first two are definitely good games but like, nothing to lose sleep over It’s taken me a while to change my approach but I feel much happier right now just playing whatever I feel like. Not saying you need to do it or that it will work for anyone, but like, turns out games are much more fun if you play them for fun! Who knew

Hey, I really don’t care. Maybe the real game I bugged you to play is the friends we made along the way

I am curious though since I can’t even think of any games I’ve bugged you to play right now. Chalk it up to kind of finctooning on a different plane of existence for the past seven weeks

Disregard backlogs, man, and just go with the flow Life’s too short to force yourself into entertainment that you don’t feel like at the moment

Basically. I can kinda understand that, but I personally think it’s extremely important that a series as conscious of its roots as dragon quest exists.

Oof. Then again, everyone can have their own opinion on anything, so anything goes. I did laugh at the lack of dragons comment. And I get so annoyed with people getting upset over silent protagonists like it’s some relic instead of a valid stylistic choice.

I can always count on you to remember.

I expect Sugiyama might be training a protégé, much like Akira Toriyama has with Toyotaro. Still, I always kinda pity such artists because they’re never allowed to really get a voice of their own and are kinda pigeonholed into making a career of sounding like someone else.

Still, can’t be angry that the sound is different if the previous composer just straight up dies