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    In general, I find I'm very accepting of all designs. Each generation has a different aesthetic to it and I really don't think there ever was one that offended me or something, as I know some people say. There's the two memes - either "I stopped playing Pokemon when they start looking like Neo Pets" and "Back in my day Pokemon were based on dragons, birds and mythical beasts, while now they're based on chandeliers, gears and ice cream. All I'm saying is I feel bad for the kids today."

    Really, all gens have good and bad designs and I know it sound super lame but I liked them all and I don't think I've ever disliked a starter's design Heck, the only reason I like the gen I designs the least is due to how a lot of people react to it. Which is kinda sad and I wish I could handle it better
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    Yeah, I get what you mean, and I was kind of expecting the same thing as you, but I was pleasantly surprised with this design because it was something new, unexpected, and I like the interpretation of underhanded tricks being the dark type staple. I was kinda worried it's just become a cat version of Houndoom, the hellhound. So to me, it's a nice surprise.
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    Btw, I'll be on vacation until the 16th, but I was thinking we could do another FF Talk after I get back? Psy mentioned doing stuff that's more general than just news, and I figured it was fun last time and there's tons of FF and SE-related stuff we could talk about anyway. What do you think?
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    yeah, I really don't get the hate the humanoid designs get. Especially compared to the fan evolutions people make before all the evolutions are officially revealed. Everyone seems to call them awesome, when I'm just baffled by how simple and uninspired they are. Usually the fan evos are just bigger, with maybe an additional beard or somethign, which is way off base, since even in gen 1 starter evolutions were not that simple.

    I mean, look at these gen 6 fan evolutions. I mean, those are really nothing compared to Delphox, Greninja and Chesnaught, which I think all are awesome.And then I see things like these for the gen 7 starters and part of me kinda understands why they feel disappointed with the wrestling tiger because it's something completely different, but it's also just way more awesome than simply a bigger cat.

    I mean, I guess Bulbasaur just got bigger with each evolution, but both Blastoise and Charizard look very different from their initial forms. I find it hilarious how people are complaining that Game Freak are unoriginal with Pokemon designs when the things they make up themselves are way less inspired.
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    Yeah, it was pretty cool! Again, a lot of fans took issue with her being so anthropomorphic, but I really thought the witch theme was a cool and original design choice.
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    I mean, I was surprised too, but there's just something about its design that just makes me love it!

    Oh well. I'm fine being in the minority again. No one liked Emboar either, but he's still my fav starter to date.
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    I'm upset the tiger wrestler is getting so much hate
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    Thank you sir for adding me the amazing wizzy as a friend .. You shall not be forgotten
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    Oh, it's definitely a nerdy con. I might check it out someday, though, we'll see.

    And yeah, there was a scene he thought was a rape scene which traumatized him as a kid, so the lines uttered by the final boss during the final battle are taken from there.
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    Also, having beaten Undertale, I'm thinking of getting back into the Mother series with the wife. I played the first two games back in the day but only got like halfway into Mother 3 despite it being far and away the best one. I guess it was also the most difficult.

    Have you played the series? What I found most interesting about it is that Itoi, the creater, never did any other video game before or after, and in Japan he's a big name as an essayist, copywriter and storyteller (he even had a short story anthology published which contained both his stories and Murakami's). Hell, he even did some voice acting, playing the father in My Neighbor Totoro. Considering I am now working as a copywriter and have similar writing (and generally creative) aspirations, he's quickly become a role model for me. One analysis of his games I read in Polish is that while most games that try to be "artistic" take away the gameplay, basically reducing the game to walking around thoughtfully and stumbling into cutscenes, as if trying to wrestle the power from the gameplay side of things, the Mother series is an actual game to the core with gameplay elements that are incredibly well-integrated into the narrative, making it all the more powerful.

    It's interesting to think about, anyway.
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by Wolf Kanno on 01-28-2021 at 07:40 AM
Oof, I've been a bit out of sorts with my mental health lately, and I think it's about time I do something about that. I've got a lot of balls in the air so to speak concerning projects I've been doing around the forum both past and present. So I'm thinking about tackling a few of them, but with how I've been feeling lately, I want some second opinions I guess. Of the projects I've abandoned, what should I work on next?

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WK's Top 100 Lost but Not Forgotten : Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together

by Wolf Kanno on 05-24-2020 at 11:43 PM

I'm always split on these articles. So many of these games are great and I have retroactively said a few of them made the list, but occasionally something comes along that I really want to love but the game just won't let me. Tactics Ogre is in a weird place for me because the remake and the original are pretty different in some meaningful ways, so much of this review pertains to the remake due to having only played a little bit of the original.

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WK's Top 100's Lost but Not Forgotten List: Silent Hill 3

by Wolf Kanno on 05-03-2020 at 01:37 AM
Is this honestly the first non-RPG on this list?

Well I fell into the Silent Hill series rather late. By the time I had played the series, the "glory years" were over and fans were knee deep in Konami trying to take the series in a different direction without Team Silent. I was a huge fan of the first two entries of the series, being instantly sucked into the second entry and surprised how much I really enjoyed the first one. So it came as a bit

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WK's Top 100 Lost But Not Forgotten: SaGa Frontier 2

by Wolf Kanno on 04-05-2020 at 02:32 AM
I was having a serious reservation about whether I was going to add this to my Top 100 list or place it here. I decided it would go here for now, but part of me feels it could be like Demon's Souls and make the jump to My Top 100.


SaGa is a weird franchise. A JRPG series made for enthusiast who feel they've seen it all. From the Gameboy entries where you built a ragtag group filled with robots and monster to climb a tower/tree to visit

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My Top 100's Lost but Not Forgotten: Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep

by Wolf Kanno on 01-30-2020 at 08:17 PM
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I mentioned this in my Chain of Memories entry for my Top 100 List, but Kingdom Hearts and I have a really awkward history with each other. This is a franchise that has always been more of a guilty pleasure for me than something I actively love. Funny enough, it’s not even the basic premise that bothers me. While Final Fantasy meets Disney mash-up sounds contrived, KH has always managed to make it work since this

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