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I'm not against it. It doesn't take away from the original.
I HATE it so much.
With the way the US treats us we might as well not be.
Indeed. Years ago when rom hacks of various of the GBA Fire Emblems (mainly Blazing Sword) became an addiction to me, Immortal Sword stood out as the most uniquely made.
I liked The Jungle Book remake, but I'm not a fan of the whole practice.
You see the state that looks like an upside down virgina, north carolina? Above that is virginia. Virginia Beach is like, a tiny part on the foot on VirginiaBruh, all this time I thought you were mexican.
Stay safe, man and good luck.
Professor Pumpkaboo remind me where's Virginia again; I suck at geography and hurricane models.
and im 100% sure imma get hit. Weather it will still be cat 5 or not, idk but I know Ill get hit
I love them, they should keep them coming!
No, but if I did I'd mute them.
Meh, the accounts go away after a couple days anyway
Sounds like bots then. I get them on Instagram on occasion.
I don't mind it, but they're pretty hit or miss. I enjoyed The Jungle Book even with the different ending, and while I haven't seen it yet, I've heard good things about Beauty and the Beast (and the soundtrack is amazing).
I don't understand why they had to make everyone else stupid, incompetent and evil just to built up Maleficent as some kind of hero
Late for me to say, but do stay safe.
I'm not sure if their intention is really to outdo any of the originals, but to retell the tales in a realistic appearance with of course, some modifications to the adaption, possibly exploring some elements not seen in detail or explored at all in the original.
To be honest, the only ones I've seen are Alice, Maleficent, and Beauty and the Beast. In the case of BatB, I actually saw it just last night.
This was my biggest qualm with that movie, easily.
So I beat Persona 4 finally, even to the true ending. Man what a ride this has been.
This will be a long one.
Ok, this game is absolutely amazing. It has some problems, but what it does right is so great that it doesn't matter.
Im going to go over the Cons real quick because there aren't many
1. The game has insta-kills. This isn't inherently a problem because reviving is really easy. The problem, is that if the main character gets downed, its an instant game over. You cant use a revive on him, even if the whole party is alive. It really sucks when you spend about half an hour dungeon crawling, only to get insta killed by an enemy with no way of knowing it would happen and no way to know. Even worse, bosses have this. INCLUDING THE FINAL BOSS. Lost to them an hour into the fight.
2. Sometimes the game is super obtuse. For the good endings, you need to do some oddly specific stuff, and for the investigations, sometimes people will only show up at certain ties and there is a lot of awkward stuff.
3.The difficulty scaling is really awkward. The first boss is rough as you are still learning the game, the second one is terrible in every way*, the third is super easy, the 4th is extremely hard, the fifth is easy again, but fair, and then after that is the boses that give you the different endings, so they are all final bosses. First final boss is a bit gimmicky, but ot that bad if you dont get screwed by weakness, with the last 2 bosses being really great other than the insta kill move on the final final boss.
*Ok, so shadow Kanji is the absolute worst. He has 2 mooks with him that have a lot of HP. One NEEDS to be beat to win because he can heal and give an ABSURD amount of stats to Shadow Kanji, and the other will do a lot of damage, and is nearly invulnerable. Kanji himself has some crazy AOE debuffs, and does lot's of damage and a lot of HP. And that is BEFORE healing and buffs are taken into account. It's a downright painful fight, especially for one so early.
Ok, that is it.
Now onto the positives
The music. It's great, and even though you hear this music for so long, it never gets tiring and always fits the area. The final dungeon music is particularly great, and the Void Quest song will be stuck in my head forever.
This game has such a cozy location, and such an amazing cast of characters that it was impossible for me not to fall in love with Inaba. It's pretty small, and the floodplain always felt underused, but what time you do spend in Inaba is great.
The actual random encounter balance is great. I never had a problem where the enemies ere suddenly too powerful, or suddenly too weak, beyond the first floor or two which are meant to ease you into the dungeon, or let the player get back into decent levels if they were previously underlevelled. And the dungeons themselves are all great, and the gimmicks they do have arent too much of a problem. Money is balanced well too. For the first half of the game you really have to balance your money to get the most out of it, and it makes buying what you want is really satisfying.
The story is pretty great too. It has some weird bits that are contrived, but everything is interesting and fun. Stuff like the Midnight channel or who the murderer is is always fun to speculate about, and there are always just enough loose ends to get you to wonder "wait what?" but never too many that nothing makes sense unless you are supposed to.
Most importantly, is the characters. Oh my god the characters. They do so much great stuff with the characters in this game that i could never explain it well enough. In social links, you spend one on ne time with them, and they grow as people and the stories that are told are wonderful and heartwarming/heartwrenching. And for the mandatory parts for when you arent on a case hanging out with the whole group together? Spectacular. I laughed so hard at so many scenes. It was wonderful. It also really helps the pacing break up from "sad depression" to "happy moments yay." And the voice acting is great too. Having voice acting makes a lot of the scenes way more powerful. Yosuke (vocied by Yuri Lowenthal) actually scared me once or twice with his emotion.
Seriously, the pacing of happy and overwhelmingly depressing is really great somehow.
Im out of stuff actually. I have so much love for this game but can't get it into words. Definitely in my top 10 games of all time. I don't want to leave Inaba. .. but I guess im on to my next game.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
I don't see a problem with it. I'm not against different styles or a person's own take on something. I also try not to compare things to the original as I know most of the time, they won't be 100% accurate, but I try to treat adaptions/movies/etc as their own thing. I think that's why I didn't mind the live action Alice in Wonderland. Like the moment I saw "Tim Burton", already I knew it wasn't going to be the same as the others. And I think not expecting much was what helped me appreciate the different style and enjoy it.
They didn't do that though.
Well, that's just a damn shame. Like I said though I just know the movie exists. And that it's about Maleficent. That's as far as my knowledge of that film goes. And honestly I don't really have any intentions on furthering that knowledge.
I want to say this is a little something TV Tropes likes to call the "Unpleasable Fanbase".....but, then again.....just as I said, it goes without saying that people have differing opinions. Unfortunately no matter what way they go about creating a remake, not everyone's gonna have positive feelings about the result.
Admittedly, it's tough for me to look at a remake/adaptation of something without thinking of and trying to compare it to the original. I can seriously appreciate that mindset though. I think it's good to try and be faithful to something, but also to try different things every now and then, and thus, for some viewers to go in with the idea that a remake or adaption going to be considerably different from the original.
Imagine Star Wars if they showed it from Vader's perspective where Obi Wan was really the evil person and he only turned to the Dark side because Obi Wan betrayed him. If him being knocked in the molten metal was on purpose from Kenobi
Pre edit that would have been more interesting for the prequels.
And that's perfectly fine. Our mindset in general is often that when we see an a adaption/remake/etc is that we will compare it to the original. And it's perfectly fine to do so. It's fine to say making something slightly different or majorly different is either a positive or negative in your book.
I thought your first Persona was Persona Q.
For a second I got scared and thought you meant that they were retconning Mario and Luigi's plumber-ness. The fact that they don't do official plumbing anymore is fine, but they will always be plumbers in my heart.
Can't be a plumber when saving the Mushroom Kingdom is a full time job.
Oh God. The Tellius games had SUCH good music. Especially the recruitment theme. Still the best recruitment theme in the series if you ask me.