Get off your high horse and stop taking it personal
Its a valid to consider Crisis core and the compilation material garbage just as much as it is valid to like it
I read people shitting all over my opinions all the time and i honestly dont expect much less on such a diverse site where there is a damn audience to appreciate even the most niche of things
It's less about "I feel this game's version is bad" and "painting this and all other stuff I find bad as "Anime" makes my opinion better because I'm not as immature as the kind of people who like this."
I'm seeing "Anime" and "Kingdom Hearts" thrown around a lot in discussions about FFVII Compliation material a vocal portion of posters don't like, and it's frustrating to see because the insinuation is obvious, and consistent.
Things that are Anime are terribly written garbage people with lower standards enjoy, and I, a person with refined standards, am much better for disliking.
If you haven't noticed this tone in a ton of posts people have made about even just this topic, let alone a ton of different stuff, then I suppose we can agree to disagree, as I see this consistently and I find it to be a bad tool of discussion that limits positive engagement between people.
Anime is a word that means something is stupid, in a way that's sometimes good, but most of the time is bad. This is how this word has been defined in modern times, and how it's used on this forum.
It's a thread about which version people prefer. If you're not expecting vehement arguing about it in a thread dedicated to it... Uh sorry. You're 100% right about the reductive argument of being "anime" is weak, but it being weak doesn't change the fact that compared to the original game the prequel employs a lot of shonen tropes, such as antigravity flying battles, lengthy conversation in the midst of battle, paranormal abilities and features such as the wings, and of course, the strong person being so strong that they can literally defeat dozens and dozens of armed enemies single handedly.
So for myself, I think those are all elements that make Crisis Core significantly worse. I love anime, but those are tropes absolutely grabbed to make Zack like a shonen protagonist, and I find it tonally at odds with my experiences of the original. That there is a bigger emotional payoff doesn't mean much to me, when the journey to that payoff was filled with trite writing, poor characterizations, and unapologetically manipulating the players knowledge of how it ends to make it more effective. And I'm going to call it garbage, but if you disagree that's cool. But it doesn't change I think it's garbage, and aside from the whole game being garbage, I think specifically the bits that are retold from the original are exceptionally garbage because it employs anime tropes.
That's totally fair that you believe it to be bad, and recognize a ton of dumb carry-on's from traditional Anime writting, and you are entitled to believe it's bad.
I'm more or less trying to specifically call out people trying to dismiss how these different ways Crisis Core contexualizes the events they remember as "Anime" as a way to demonstrate how dumb Crisis Core fans are for liking it.
You are welcome to point out how you feel, and I'm not trying to kick a hornets nest, but I am consistently frustrated by reductive, rude posts.
