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rionaleonhart) wrote2018-06-12 09:17 am
rionaleonhart) wrote2018-06-12 09:17 am
Time Won't Heal This Damage Any More.
Things that have caught my attention from E3!
Kingdom Hearts III (Microsoft conference trailer, Sony conference trailer): a release date at last! The 29th of January, 2019. It's not the promised year of 2018, but I wasn't expecting it before late November anyway, so it doesn't feel like a large delay.
I'm so excited for this game.
I think the reveal at the end of the Frozen trailer is the most shocked I've ever been by a trailer. AQUA, NO.
My favourite reaction I've seen:
That part of the trailer showing Aqua being corrupted by darkness was a shocker, but I just imagine that to the non-Kingdom Hearts fans watching the Xbox conference, seeing some generic anime girl shrouded in a dark aura dramatically turn and glare at Mickey Fucking Mouse with glowing yellow eyes and growl “Mickey, you’re too late” must have been the funniest shit (source)
I'm glad it's been confirmed that Kairi will appear in this game and will say at least two words! You never can tell with Kingdom Hearts. I'm intrigued by the prospect of her having a friendship with Lea/Axel, which is good, because I wasn't really enthusiastic about the likelihood of Lea having a major role in this game. (I don't dislike Axel, but I sometimes feel the writers like him a little too much.) If you and Kairi are going to have cute interactions, Lea, you're very welcome to stay!
I'm weirdly sad that they redesigned Sora, Donald and Goofy to look less out of place in the Pirates of the Caribbean world.
The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit: 26th June, a short game set in the Life Is Strange universe. I'm not sure how interested I am in this, really, but it's free, so I'll check it out! I've seen a lot of people complaining about going from female protagonists to playing as a boy, and I get it, but, hey, I can't complain too much if a developer wants to give me a free game. And it is at least doing something slightly different from every other game out there, because I feel there are very few games in which you play as a child. The ones I can think of: some Pokémon games, some Zelda games, Splatoon, Earthbound, Undertale, Ico, The Last Guardian, Limbo and Inside.
Come to think of it, all of those games have silent protagonists. Captain Spirit is doing something very unusual in having a child protagonist who actually gets to speak.
Assassin's Creed Odyssey: 5th October. The world looks gorgeous, but I probably won't play it. It seems to be a full-blown western RPG, and that's not what I go to the Assassin's Creed series for. I generally struggle to get engaged with games where the protagonist's personality is defined through dialogue options. Don't ask me to create a character! I'm bad at it!
Oxenfree and Life Is Strange worked for me because I felt that the protagonist had an established personality; the options were different things the character might possibly do or say, but they all felt consistent with that character. I suppose it's not impossible that Odyssey might go that route.
It's set in the fifth century BC, so there's a chance Euripides will appear in this game! I bet he's fun.
The Last of Us Part II: no release date yet. But holy crap, look at that facial animation. Look at that body language. I've never seen subtle emotions portrayed so well in a videogame cutscene. Look at how Ellie closes herself off when that guy comes to stand next to her. (The trailer is a lovely human scene followed by incredibly violent gameplay; if you're not here for the violence, you can stop watching around the 3.30 mark.)
It does bother me slightly that Ellie's teeth are really white in the shot at the end of this trailer. Where are you getting your teeth whitened, Ellie? It's two decades after the apocalypse!
Kingdom Hearts III (Microsoft conference trailer, Sony conference trailer): a release date at last! The 29th of January, 2019. It's not the promised year of 2018, but I wasn't expecting it before late November anyway, so it doesn't feel like a large delay.
I'm so excited for this game.
I think the reveal at the end of the Frozen trailer is the most shocked I've ever been by a trailer. AQUA, NO.
My favourite reaction I've seen:
That part of the trailer showing Aqua being corrupted by darkness was a shocker, but I just imagine that to the non-Kingdom Hearts fans watching the Xbox conference, seeing some generic anime girl shrouded in a dark aura dramatically turn and glare at Mickey Fucking Mouse with glowing yellow eyes and growl “Mickey, you’re too late” must have been the funniest shit (source)
I'm glad it's been confirmed that Kairi will appear in this game and will say at least two words! You never can tell with Kingdom Hearts. I'm intrigued by the prospect of her having a friendship with Lea/Axel, which is good, because I wasn't really enthusiastic about the likelihood of Lea having a major role in this game. (I don't dislike Axel, but I sometimes feel the writers like him a little too much.) If you and Kairi are going to have cute interactions, Lea, you're very welcome to stay!
I'm weirdly sad that they redesigned Sora, Donald and Goofy to look less out of place in the Pirates of the Caribbean world.
The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit: 26th June, a short game set in the Life Is Strange universe. I'm not sure how interested I am in this, really, but it's free, so I'll check it out! I've seen a lot of people complaining about going from female protagonists to playing as a boy, and I get it, but, hey, I can't complain too much if a developer wants to give me a free game. And it is at least doing something slightly different from every other game out there, because I feel there are very few games in which you play as a child. The ones I can think of: some Pokémon games, some Zelda games, Splatoon, Earthbound, Undertale, Ico, The Last Guardian, Limbo and Inside.
Come to think of it, all of those games have silent protagonists. Captain Spirit is doing something very unusual in having a child protagonist who actually gets to speak.
Assassin's Creed Odyssey: 5th October. The world looks gorgeous, but I probably won't play it. It seems to be a full-blown western RPG, and that's not what I go to the Assassin's Creed series for. I generally struggle to get engaged with games where the protagonist's personality is defined through dialogue options. Don't ask me to create a character! I'm bad at it!
Oxenfree and Life Is Strange worked for me because I felt that the protagonist had an established personality; the options were different things the character might possibly do or say, but they all felt consistent with that character. I suppose it's not impossible that Odyssey might go that route.
It's set in the fifth century BC, so there's a chance Euripides will appear in this game! I bet he's fun.
The Last of Us Part II: no release date yet. But holy crap, look at that facial animation. Look at that body language. I've never seen subtle emotions portrayed so well in a videogame cutscene. Look at how Ellie closes herself off when that guy comes to stand next to her. (The trailer is a lovely human scene followed by incredibly violent gameplay; if you're not here for the violence, you can stop watching around the 3.30 mark.)
It does bother me slightly that Ellie's teeth are really white in the shot at the end of this trailer. Where are you getting your teeth whitened, Ellie? It's two decades after the apocalypse!
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I had three thoughts while watching the KHIII trailer:
1.) It’s sooooo pretttyyyyy
2.) God, this dialogue is cringeworthy
3.) Why does the sound mixing seem so jank?
As to this: That part of the trailer showing Aqua being corrupted by darkness was a shocker, but I just imagine that to the non-Kingdom Hearts fans watching the Xbox conference, seeing some generic anime girl shrouded in a dark aura dramatically turn and glare at Mickey Fucking Mouse with glowing yellow eyes and growl “Mickey, you’re too late” must have been the funniest shit
Actually? Yeah. Totally. I know who Aqua is; in that I know her name is Aqua, she’s from Kingdom Hearts and she seems nifty. But when she turned around to be all ‘I Am A Shadow, the True Self’ I laughed. ‘Course, I still giggle every time Mickey shows up dramatically to squeak about the dangers of “DARRRRKKKKNESSSSS” or how “Kingdom hearts iz LYTE”.
I’ll def check out The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit. It being a free game set in a universe I like really helps. I’m intrigued at playing as a child, especially because the trailer made the game look really cute.
I’m just gonna stare lovingly at Last of Us Part II. Oh, Ellie <3
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Ellie! One of my all-time favourite characters. I'm pretty nervous about this game - what if it goes in directions that make me unhappy? (it is guaranteed to go in directions that make me unhappy) - but I'm looking forward to it anyway.
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i mean don’t get me wrong i’m happy for you guys but seriously, it is one weird series from an outside perspective. (i say, as a final fantasy fan. coughs.)
i don’t think anything really grabbed me this year; i would be excited for fallout 76, but i have a lot of misigivings about it being a mmo/online thing. guess i’ll have to wait and see. on the pro side, i can finally stop putting off buying a switch now that pokemon has finally arrived.
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what is kingdom hearts even
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I suspect I will not just spend the entire game dreading the moment where I cry forever, but will also spend the entire game just straight up terrified and running away and dying repeatedly.
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I don't know whether it's any reassurance, but I'm pretty sure this game is planning to hurt us all the way through. I'm not sure whether that's better or worse than Final Fantasy XV's 'friendship! silly photographs! delightful adventures! AND THEN.'