Yeah, it's definitely a running trend. I think the most interesting thing is that Squall is more or less the opposite of a whiny character, the only difference is that unlike most FF games the player has routine access to what he's actually thinking at any given time instead of exclusively what comes out of his mouth. He's not even allowed to think things and then not actually express them.
Okay? Not sure what this has to do with anything. I never denied that women could be violent.
I think both designs look trashy and stupid, and I would never take that character seriously as a kunoichi. As for the "she uses distraction to attack" thing, don't even get me started. It's a really dumb cliché that makes no sense and it's always an excuse anyway.
Building on that, Pretty much all of Sengoku Basara is trashy and stupid by intention. I'd almost go as far to say that it's a deconstruction of the whole, "hot blooded" motif, if it didn't take itself so damn seriously half the time.
Ah, alright then. I get you. That's fair. Thank you for your time.
Well, I did mention how stuff like (but not limited to) sexualized underage girls was gross and pulled me out of a niche series like Fire Emblem that really has nothing else quite like it mechanics wise. So I assume you're talking about me. It's pretty disingenuous of you to talk about how us women are being hyperbolic if you aren't going to even be bothered to address the actual arguments.
Honestly I didn't even realize Sengoku Basara had female characters. I thought it was all just cute boys beating the tar out of each other. I learned something this day.
Yeah, he was a meek, wimpy loner who faked it until he could make it on some level. By the time he dropped the facade and sorted out his uh...mind...issues he was honestly a pretty normal dude, which he got a lot of shit for late game.
I don't see how that's weird though. A lot of distasteful content in these games can be ignored for sure, but some people can be more affected by specific elements, like sexualized lolis in this case, and may believe that the mere fact that the devs found including them in the game a good idea is terrible enough to not want to play the game.
It's a real shame because Square were definitely capable of creating actual strong female characters. Yuna and Aerith are among the strongest characters in their respective casts, Yuna especially.
Pau wasn't even talking to you, unless you two are alts of the same person.
Calling someone's tactics dishonest is pretty disingenuous I think to put someone in a bad light immediately and label them as not honest. It targets a member's character.
Yeah, for the record I really liked Jecht's character arc. It might be a bit too forgiving but I'd generally like to think that most people who wind up like my father (or Jecht) are, in part, victims themselves. It doesn't excuse anything, but you don't generally become an abusive alcoholic over absolutely nothing. Learning and wanting to do better is always an admirable thing, even if you can't always be forgiven for what you've already done.
You are literally doing the same thing by calling her post dishonest.
So it's not okay for me to call someone disingenuous but it's okay for you to call me dishonest? I'm confused where the line is here.
I'm sorry to hear what you had to put up with! As someone with similar experiences with my dad it's never really sat well with me how... warmly Jecht is recieved as a person. He's an interesting villain but he's not a good person, at all.
That does bring up a question- if Cloud is meant to be a parody of sorts, is there any character in particular he's meant to be satirizing? Because I don't remember a whole lot of JRPG protags being super broody until he came along, but then again, I didn't much get into them until after VII.
Yeah, there are actually a number of girls in it! I think they're all really cool, personally, and are my main draw to the series (though admittedly the cute boys beating each other up was what initially intrigued me). One of the characters (Kasuga's liege and beloved, incidentally) doesn't even have a given canon gender in the original Japanese scripts, which while a lot more common in Japanese media than Western, is still I think really great since they can be interpreted as nonbinary.
I've always tended to find FFX's characters to be off-putting because of their personalities. It almost feels like a Star Wars prequel script to me. There's something there, but it never really came across as anything other than trying too hard for a feeling the writer couldn't construct in a manner that properly expressed it. They all felt somewhat creepy to me, personally. Like the uncanny valley of characterization.
Can't speak for everybody but I've been one of the more active posters in the thread for quite a while and I love trashy stuff when I actively seek it out and know exactly what I'm getting into. I'm on the record in this thread several times over noting that I love me some boobs, too. They're pretty great.
We've had a lot of really interesting discussions and learned a lot about each other's preferences. Taught some people some terms, too.
I"m not trying to shut out your argument. A better way to phrase it would definitely be to say you appear disingenuous when you accuse others of being hyperbolic while simultaneously exaggerating and mischaracterizing other people's arguments.
My favorite part was the part where Cloud remembered his mom, knowing he was hung up on the neighbor girl, telling him that he should go out and get him an older woman who'd take him by the hand herself because he was such a passive, meek introvert.
Not sure where you're seeing this. A lot of women have said they have no problem with sex scenes in general.
Ahhhh, didn't think of it that way, thanks.
Have we talked about sex scenes we thought were well done yet?
