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Post by TheGunheart on Nov 3, 2011 18:25:46 GMT -5
I'm not seeing any real Kojima resemblance, but I will say my problem with the story is that the first half is a somewhat darker, ultra-condensed version of Tail Concerto's plot, while the second goes with that silly idea that crops up in animal stories trying to take themselves too seriously by claiming it's actually a future Earth.
Seriously, when you get right down to it, the setting is yet another remake of that old cartoon short Peace on Earth.
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Post by Super Orbus on Nov 3, 2011 18:27:04 GMT -5
Seriously, who the fuck writes this shit? It's like they took the worst that Kojima has ever written and shoehorned it onto the end of something fantastical yet internally coherent, ruining it in the process. So the deus ex machina is nanites?
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Post by TheGunheart on Nov 3, 2011 20:00:27 GMT -5
Surprisingly, yes. The magic, the reason robots can merge, the big disaster that left the world in its current state...it all comes back to nanites.
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Post by Super Orbus on Nov 3, 2011 23:39:05 GMT -5
Figures.
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Post by Weasel on Nov 3, 2011 23:42:47 GMT -5
At least it's not rubber bullets.
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Post by Sketcz-1000 on Nov 4, 2011 2:59:18 GMT -5
It's ridiculous is what it is.
They created an internally coherent world, and quite a majestic one at that with islands and airships, and then they literally took this idea, and fucked it. Fucked it until the idea was dead. Imagine if you were watching Lord of the Rings and suddenly it was revealed that it's the future, and orcs and elves are just human mutants from the radioactive fallout of the atomic wars, and magic is really just psychic powers the mutants have, and Frodo pulls out an iPad to play a SNES emulator running Lord of the Rings, telling his friends: "Look at this magic device from long ago which we found in the mines outside the shire."
After spending 10 YEARS crafting Solatorobo, there should be like a law or something preventing them taking a fun premise and just ruining it. Like I said, ridiculous.
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Post by Ryusui on Nov 4, 2011 5:33:20 GMT -5
I think that there should be some kind of international moratorium on nanites in fiction. You know who else worked with nanites? Wesley Crusher.
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Post by Super Orbus on Nov 4, 2011 9:33:18 GMT -5
The thing is, none of this probably would have bothered me until you guys started complaining about it. Now the game just might be ruined for me. And my copy hasn't even arrived yet.
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Post by TheGunheart on Nov 4, 2011 10:17:06 GMT -5
If it helps, I got it spoiled well in advance of my playthrough, so by the time I did, it was less a shocking twist to completely ruin the game and more something to just (begrudgingly) accept so I could enjoy it.
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Post by Super Orbus on Nov 4, 2011 10:31:15 GMT -5
By the time it gets to the top of my backlog, I'll probably have forgotten anyway.
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Post by Sketcz-1000 on Nov 4, 2011 11:03:35 GMT -5
In my defence, when I posted I didn't explain why it bugged me, I merely said that it.
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Post by Digitalnametag on Nov 4, 2011 15:54:11 GMT -5
Just beat this last night, and I agree that the story does degenerate into bland apocalyptic/earth reborn smut out of nowhere. Elements of this story might've been cool in Megaman X, but now that we've all seen it a hundred times it's a little old. At least the characters maintained most of their charm, and I thought some of the orphanage stuff was cute.
Game-play kept me interested with a decent variety of missions and the new opening animation looked good. Graphics looked good all around actually. All around good game and I'm thankful Xseed decided to bring it over.
Edit: I guess you made the same post on Gamefaqs Sketcz?
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Post by Haz on Nov 4, 2011 19:10:46 GMT -5
Read that post until "radioactive fallout". Then I realized I'm too far into the game, sank too much time, and having too much fun w/ it (I'm after the start of the 2nd half, after the two new more crazier bad guys fucked shit up and wrecked Red's Dahak) to let some plot twist, however dumb or grimderp it may be, to dampen my enjoyment of the game by any stretch. *shrug*
I like that the game's at least (incrementally) gaining more challenge, though there's still nothing outstanding difficulty-wise. One can blow through that first half like nobody's business.
Also, yeah, I've played quite a lot of DS games and I can say this is one of the better looking ones. Dem effects and other simultaneous goings-on in the cities. GJ, CC2.
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Post by Ryusui on Nov 5, 2011 1:32:04 GMT -5
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Post by Sketcz-1000 on Nov 5, 2011 3:19:28 GMT -5
Edit: I guess you made the same post on Gamefaqs Sketcz? Yes, embarrassingly I chose that username when I was young and didn't realise the negative connotations associated with it.
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