You know they’re the only axis power that still openly celebrates their WWII generals, yeah?

Okay so this one is ultra cultural. They still openly “celebrate” deified generals who tried to overthrow the imperial family then cursed the capital after their death to be hit by a plague, natural disasters, and famine, over a thousand years ago. With people from the imperial family dying from it. There’s several people like that who literally have an active cult today, to alleviate their anger. It’s not about being happy with what they did, it’s about appeasing everyone who wielded power and caused fear even after their death, because they have a culture of vengeful ghosts and Chinese Buddhism gave them the idea that people with power in the “real world” court still maintained the same power in the court of the underworld and could cause natural disasters and plagues. That said, I don’t know how many of those cults are still observed by the Prime Minister.

I mean, if the Japanese text says “if you can read this, you’re welcome”, it does suggest that English or Chinese people who speak and read Japanese are welcome. It’s a real weird thing to pull, like they think they’re being cute.

Just to be clear, the Wikipedia list is simply trying to be exhaustive and points out which ones are a matter of dialect and what’s just an archaic form. Think of it like a list that includes you, ye, ya, y’all, u, thou. Those are not different pronouns - it’s the same word with variations for regions, time periods, medium. Don’t take “you can just write ‘u’ when you are writing on an electronic device” as a formal rule.

Brave Exvius started in 2015 and Octopath was 2019. This is just a new iteration, dumping the gacha part and adding a full traversable open world map.

Yeah Damage Control started as clean up crew after Avengers 1, but that never took off, the show was abandoned, and the idea was recycled for Spider-Man, I think they show up in Ms. Marvel, but they quickly turned into some sort of ICE/FBI (that comparison came up when ICE was just starting to be a bigger problem under Trump 1). They clearly didn’t know what to do with it and turned it into random government agency that they couldn’t decide if it was Nazi corrupt or just “hero bad” kind of JJ Jameson dumb, forgetting the entire “Stark is funding a clean up crew from the destruction caused by alien invasions” premise that disappeared entirely.

They’re still in the next Spider-Man, but they’ll probably never be anything more than “SHIELD light” generic government agency that’s there to be a pain in Spidey’s ass (like full private military but not worldwide air carrier and interstellar force).

Powerless actually did that really well as legally not MCU with a great cast, but that was canceled.

You can also see a ring on his ring finger, so that tracks with the pinky.

I’ve never heard anyone but himself make that claim this one time about asperger’s. I don’t know why anyone would believe that.

The Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection has SF3, although I think people were disappointed with that one and I forget why.

I believe the input lag makes it unplayable online and everyone just stuck to whatever they were already on for that.

Sony signed a blank check for the full thing like 15 years ago for the exclusivity.

Uh, Zelda’s always done the tapestry thing though, haven’t they? 'Cause they like being presented as old myths.

I can only think of Wind Waker and BotW, also a bit of stained glass action in Minish Cap. Most of that was just for the intro, to set up the state of the world, and then nothing (beside the Calamity tapestry in BotW). I suppose this tapestry might be the same thing, it just reprises the opening narration from a voice that might turn out to be no one in particular.

Zelda games do have a story of course, but they always come up with new elements for the backstory that they then completely abandon. Very rough “pillars” have stuck, like the Goddesses, Sacred Realm, Hylia, but the actual world building elements to make a real kingdom beyond just basic fantasy setting, actual “historical” events like Majora, the Dark Interlopers, Lorule, the Minish - you’re lucky if you see it mentioned in the next Hyrule Historia. They make a new Zelda game, they come up with a new tribe and a new ancient power that becomes the new mechanic, and when the game is done, you never see that again. Maybe you see an Easter egg in Breath of the Wild, at most.

(I say that while being a pro timeline fan myself btw, the story has been there since the first games - just not the detailed world building, Rauru banishing the Dark Interlopers and founding Hyrule kingdom is the absolute most we’ll get as world building backstory outside the actual games)

And it’s not like OoT isn’t enamored with Hyrule’s dark past. If they’re going to expand on anything, it’ll almost certainly be that.

Most of OoT was almost entirely vibes though, no context for anything. The Forest Temple was literally made for Hyrule Castle material but then cut out and pasted into its own temple, and bam, new place with its own vibe and you’re free to come up with your own backstory - because Nintendo sure won’t do it.

But yeah, the brand new world redesign (entirely judging by Link’s bed being completely redone and not at all like the OG) makes me think we’ll see more about places like the Shadow and Forest Temples. Not sure they’ll put as much love to actually cement and explain the connection between OoT Rauru and TotK Rauru (I’ll be happy if Rauru is now full Zonai furry), actually expand the world’s history beyond just what we saw in the OG, but surely we’ll see a bigger castle town, more inhabited places in the overworld, all that with a bit more information on local cultures like the Sheikah, actually literally anything about the Hyrulean civil war and Ganondorf’s involvement, and so on and I’m huffing hopium again and I have zero trust in them with this ridiculous teaser and no gameplay.

Yeah, but the fact that Nintendo (can’t remember if it was Miyamoto orr Aonuma) lamented that younger TotK players didn’t know how important Rauru is, and this reveal that it’s not a 1 to 1 remake after all, is what’s sending the fandom into heavy hopium that this time, for sure, Nintendo will do what they’ve never done before and actually push the story. The tapestry presentation can certainly be read as supporting this expectation, too.

I really want it too, that they’re finally putting the same love and detail into the story as FF7 is doing, but I won’t believe it until I see it. The reveal was a big disappointment to me for that reason.

There’s a shit ton of “environmental storytelling” that Zelda games love to throw and never explain; OoT has plenty of that. Just any change to the Shadow Temple would send people wild. It’s always been hard to expect Nintendo to actually do anything about any of it because they never ever do, but this being a full remake similar to FF7 is giving a lot of hope.

You shoot dinosaurs with a bow. Also, the storytelling.

Hamaguchi confirmed that each character will have 4 fits, which are apparently used as both costume and job. FF7 allowed anyone to be any job with the materia set you give them, and the fits will apparently give them unique abilities to focus on a job. Time to list all the jobs that exist and spread them across the 8 characters? Mystic Knight / Dark Knight for Cloud, Time Mage for Red XIII, Monk and apparently Black Mage for Tifa, Berserker and Blue Gunner for Vincent… Cait Sith can have the White Mage and be actually relevant now.

They expected to use Reunion for part 2, I think, but then the Crisis Core remake team stole that from under them without asking.

Biggots are trying to shoot that down by making payment processor companies like Visa and MasterCard threaten to cut off Steam if they don’t take down evil, satanist, socialist games that recognize that minorities and LGBTQ+ even exist. Can’t shove that down the throat of good Christian kids.

Just LGBTQ+, I wasn’t talking about LGBTQ+ porn as separate from “regular porn”. I’m saying biggots will censor non-porn LGBTQ+ too. I am separating loli porn from “regular” porn.

Free speech for the maker of loli porn but not for the platform that has regular porn or lgbtq.

Examples given in the article are:

Historically, Valve’s policy has only banned games that are “illegal or straight-up trolling,” but that has opened the people running Steam to an endless series of subjective value judgements. For years, sporadic reports emerged of developers making anime-style smut getting ghosted by Valve – presumably for the genre’s association with high school settings and underage characters. Similarly, Steam took direct action to pull a cheap, trashy visual novel called Rape Day from the platform in 2019.

Fuck that article BTW, pretending Steam is in the wrong and the quack would have “saved them some headaches”.

Asura’s Wrath, the button masher QTE on rail and DLC true end drew a lot of hate at the time, but I loved the storytelling and the visceral characterization.