Originally Posted by Ishin Ookami
Personally, its not the emulation I mind, its the fact that its so half assed. you cant just take bits and pieces, blatantly emulate a genre, and then decide at certain plot points your not going to pay attention anymore. Its contradictory to the story your writing. Every story, regardless of genre, should have a good flow. If they wanted to emulate wuxia and anime, then fine. Hunky dory, I like em both so go knock yourselves out. But both genre's have rules, and if they wanted to throw it a bit of a different mythology in there, fine go ahead. I like shows like gargoyles and babylon 5 because they successfully involve different mythologies respectfully and dont cancel out other plot or the seperate mythologies that are included, established, or refferrenced in doing so. The writers and creators gave a crap and actually thought out everything so that wouldnt happen.
The problem with barrett and cid, or at least the problem I have with them getting higher then cloud did is that in no storytelling context dealt with in game, in the movie, or applicable by the genre's square was emulating or including (such as the refferrences to norse mythologies) are these characters capable of getting that high on their own physical or spiritual exertions. I can understand everyone else doing so due to storytelling concepts that have been mentioned in the past, but these two the storyline just doesnt allow you to understand that they have the ability to do so. And no, the whole level 99 thing doesnt count as a storytelling concept. A gameplay concept yes, and if this was still a game story I wouldnt have a problem with this.