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Anonymous Coward · 2y
Please rank the villains of final fantasy seven dirge of Cerberus and why
azul the cerulean. kinda boring. he's fine and his design is fun but i generally don't gravitate towards The Big Guys really.
rosso the crimson. probably the actual coolest member of the tsviets which means she isn't as funny as the others but it does mean i just like her without a hint of irony. she is a ridiculous edgelord but damn she's kinda stylin about it. she absolutely owns her schtick in a way the others don't really.
nero the sable. transparently fujoshibait in a way that final fantasy has never really gone to before or since, nero's constant monologuing about his brother that he is hopelessly in love with is the kind of absurd 2005 problematic yaoi shit that i think is just delightgul.
weiss the immaculate. he looks cool as shit and the "THEY WILL BE STABBED. MURDERED. SHOT. GAROTTED. STRANGLED. POKED. MADE FUN OF. POOPED ON." speech is one of the funniest things in video games.
hojo. it cannot be overstated how funny hojo's role in dirge of cerberus is. everything about him is hysterical. in the flashback story about vincent and his pining for lucrecia, he ultimately plays the role of the guy who is emotionally available but ultimately bad for lucrecia in the kind of YA emo fantasy that vincent perceives, despite him being literally professor hojo. then the circumstances for his return are so ridiculously stupid that you cannot help but laugh. my guy literally put his brain on dropbox. but what really brings it all together is not just the hilarious crosscut fades they do with the big buff goku man that is weiss the immaculate, but the fact that all of this doesn't matter at all. his role in the game is basically nonexistent!!! you could cut him out and nothing would change. he appears, you have one fight with him, then he dies and weiss is back. he is a hysterical plot detour and it is amazing. perfection no notes
Anonymous Coward · 2y
This might seem pedantic but I'm curious, why you don't always capitalize correctly in your backlogged reviews? There's exceptions to this like the Elden Ring or Stanely reviews but a lot of your reviews just don't, but I assume it's intentional because sometimes you'll capitalize titles and such correctly while not doing so for the start of sentences etc.
Anonymous Coward · 2y
what’s ur fav gun
i don't like guns! no shade on people who think they're cool or just like using them at a range or w/e but they just kinda gross and creep me out. don't like any gun that actually exists in the real world they all scare me. in terms of video game guns tho i gotta go for the original and the best the halo 1 pistol. just a classic guy (gun)
Anonymous Coward · 2y
Why are you so based and cool and awesome? Also, how are you so good at writing reviews, like all of your stuff on Backloggd is great. Genuine questions from me.
thank you for your kind words! i don't know if i have any good answers to your questions i don't think i do anything particularly special, either in writing or otherwise, so i can't really elucidate how i do that thing i don't think i do. but i still really appreciate you being so nice regardless.
LyraMeli · 2y
How's the goth life treating you these days
Anonymous Coward · 2y
what's a video game
a video game is a kind of box that lives inside a computer into which you deposit a moderate proportion of mental effort (and some physical effort) and receive in return stimuli that can provoke intellectual or emotional responses. like how in mario, you press a button, for which you receive a funny italian man jumping up, which provokes a joyful response, or how in planescape torment, where you click on a sphere and in return receive a series of words that twist your gut into a knot and forces you to examine all the tiny cruelties you have committed in your life. i like em
LyraMeli · 3y
What do you think is the most important element for a game to get right to fall in love with it?
It's really hard to say, and I think the answer is different for every game, but I think the No.1 most important thing a game has to do to make me fall in love with it, is that it has to make me feel something I didn't expect. Just something to break through my expectations and resonate with me unexpectedly. I think the one thing almost all the games I love have in common is that I didn't expect to love them like I did when I played them.
Anonymous Coward · 3y
How about the bouncer from 2000, a launch title for the Sony PlayStation 2, with revolutionary pressure-sensitive controls that make use of the ps2ms innovative hardware?
Anonymous Coward · 3y
Was there a specific piece of media that sparked your interest in relaying your thoughts and analysis out to the world the way you do now? Something you just had to tell other people about in great detail?
been thinking about this one for a few hours and, it's hard to say? certainly, any time I have started writing criticism and stuff on a website it is usually because I feel like my thoughts aren't representative in the consensus surrounding a work, leading me to want to fill that void by expressing those thoughts as best I can, so you could say that Batman V Superman, Mass Effect Andromeda, and Yakuza: Like a Dragon are all potential candidates, but I don't think there's a singular example of something that suddenly flipped a switch in my head and made me want to write my dumb little screeds. i just like writing and criticism! i think it's fun! i like talking about art and how it makes us feel!
Anonymous Coward · 3y
best Gundam (mech design, not series)?
probably the F91 Gundam F91 for me. It's such a cool and sleek design, and all the little touches that make clear how big an influence Anaheim Electronics had on it's design own. it's very typical of F91 (the movie) to imply a lot with very little and this is that principle applied to the gundam, it's design showing the waning power of the Earth Federation as a state force and the continuing dominance of corporate interests. It rules. Very close second is the Turn A which is just the best boy
Anonymous Coward · 3y
what's your favorite sandwich
LyraMeli · 3y
What game made you fall in love with games as more than just entertainment?
kingdom hearts 1! it's one of my earliest memories playing games and I was just totally spellbound by it. i played games before I touched that, but it was never really an engagement that went beyond pure play, given that I was like. 6. but that game's opening sequence was unlike anything i've ever seen before, and it made me feel things that nothing before ever had. pretty much any time my opinions on what i find valuable in games change, I go back to that first time playing kingdom hearts late at night on my best friend's ps2, and what I saw there.
another answer to this is mass effect lol. mixed complicated feelings on that game now but that was the game that I think really crystalised making and talking about video games as something I wanted to do, because i was so enthralled by the world and so invested in the characters.
Anonymous Coward · 3y
hi! first time short time. my questions: do you play any instruments? and how do you feel about Chaos?
Sadly not! I used to play guitar but "play" is maybe a strong word: i struggled with basic chords due to a combination of laziness, incompetence, and what would eventually be diagnosed as a hand-eye coordination condition. the latter kind of makes it difficult to consider picking up an instrument, but if I had the time, I would love to learn to play piano, I think I'd like to try guitar again, though purely for poser reasons.
as for chaos. well. i wanna kill chaos, chaos is my enemy, chaos is (1/9218)