Anyone got a time stamp on the KH stuff? I would very much like to skip it when I around to listening. Another round of "Kingdom Hearts is so confusing!" from people that have never tried is honestly just dull at this point.
Welp, if I didn't already know it, this would be the point where I accepted it. I apparently have a completely out-of-whack idea as to what "good" and "bad" writing are.
That line in no way seems as bad as people are making it our to be, or reacting to it as being. Like, even having not played the game (for whole other reasons), and having no context, it seems like it's kind of a pun... in context. And people are acting like it's the most ludicrous thing they've ever heard. Like... what?
(The rest of the scene after that is kind of hilariously dramatic, but geez, this seems like a real mountain out of a molehill that a bunch of people who have already decided to hate on the game are latching onto)
While I don't agree with his opinions on MGSV, I definitely wholly agree and appreciate Jeff tackling the "Oh, so it's a Kojima game?" (Both as an insult and a defense) people. There is a pretty wide gulf in tone and storytelling between the MGS games and what DS has shown (and also MGSV, imo, which is part of why I didn't like that game).
Oh geez, yikes. As someone who is maybe abnormally sensitive to that very specific thing (bad things happening to pregnant women), glad to know about this as it would probably sour me on the whole thing if I actually played it. It'd be like showing what happened to Dr. Strangelove in MGSV all over again.
@kevlarkoala: I remember them talking about it on the west coast at some point, and there's a group of people that were VERY bothered by the healing stuff (bandaging wounds and all that) and act like it was a ton of menus and wasted time, which was not a thing I ever noticed or experienced.
I've come to accept that I'm just really tolerant of specifically lots of menus and lengthy cutscenes (especially opening ones) due to largely growing up on JRPGs though, so maybe it's worse than I noticed.
Yeah, I feel pretty good about deciding Death Stranding wasn't for me when that TGS stuff came out. Remembering how much I hated MGSV was also a big factor.
I will say this though: Acting like "Oh, Kojima's been like this all along and if you like Metal Gear and not this your just rooted in nostalgia!" is a bad, bad take. There is a definitive tone shift between 1-Peacewalker and 5/DS, and for me personally, that's where it loses me. The non-stop dour, seriousness is a real turn-off and it's not a thing he did before.
And acting like the systems in MGS3 are nearly as bad as what it sounds like DS has is disingenuous at best.
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