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Panzer Vor wrote:

Todd's pretty much a stopped clock when it comes to misogyny, or at least his overly broad conception of it. Sure, there are occasions like this when he gets it right, but he's completely off the mark the rest of the time.

Ah jeez. You're gonna be the new Fencedude aren't you?

ikillchicken wrote:

Panzer Vor wrote: Todd's pretty much a stopped clock when it comes to misogyny, or at least his overly broad conception of it. Sure, there are occasions like this when he gets it right, but he's completely off the mark the rest of the time. Ah jeez. You're gonna be the new Fencedude aren't you?

Look, Fence isn't the most agreeable person sometimes but he is the last person I would compare a closet misogynist to.

belvadeer wrote:

I fail to see how saying this would mitigate anything.

Ni no Kuni was a fun game, just not revolutionary or breakaway huge like people might expect from something with Studio Ghibli's name on it.

The site and particularly this column likes to cry misogyny over every little scantily clad fictitious anime girl.

Take a good long look at that severed female torso. THAT is misogyny. It is beyond disgusting and offensive and truly encourages violence against women.

In the west, violence is usually seen as okay; it's the sex that people have problems with. If it was a male torso, no one would probably say anything.

TitanXL wrote:

belvadeer wrote: I fail to see how saying this would mitigate anything. Ni no Kuni was a fun game, just not revolutionary or breakaway huge like people might expect from something with Studio Ghibli's name on it.

I'm almost finished with it and I agree. It has that "Ghibli" flavor to it, especially in the parts that take place in the real world--the visuals and music are spectacular and make me feel like I'm actually in a ghibli film. But the gameplay is nothing too special. The overworlds make for some great exploration, but the fighting is nothing to get too excited over. It's pretty standard ATB-free-roaming fighting and the clock that determines when you can hit again is pretty annoying most of the time since it does feel so free otherwise.
Definitely a recommendation, though.

from IGNs review
9.4
Gorgeous, lush graphics
+Wonderful, expertly written and performed soundtrack
+Excellent story that’s familiar, yet markedly uniquel
+Engrossing battle system that takes influence from two great JRPG series
+Requires at least 40 hours to beat, and perhaps twice that to do everything

I think what's generally holding Tales back in the West, as opposed to Final Fantasy, is that Tales charas gotta act less like middle schoolers and more like high schoolers or above. In the West, they like their protagonists stronger emotionally independent - those are the types they can identify with

positive review

enurtsol wrote:

I think what's generally holding Tales back in the West, as opposed to Final Fantasy, is that Tales charas gotta act less like middle schoolers and more like high schoolers or above. In the West, they like their protagonists stronger emotionally independent - those are the types they can identify with

Most western protagonists don't have any kind of personality; at least if we're talking about RPGs. It's all about the player's decision; so they tend to be blank slates and up to the player to decide, so I find that reasoning untrue.

What holds Tales back is basically two things: lack of name recognition (Final Fantasy has this in America, Tales doesn't) and the fact it's far more anime-like than Final Fantasy is (which uses a CG/more realistic graphic style). It's no real secret most big gaming sites and the average American gamer dislike anime art and anything remotely Japaneseish this generation. It didn't always used to be like that back in the PSX and PS2 days, but this generation, with the advent of the Wii, motion controls, and console shooters, ushered in a lot more people into video games. New types of people ranging from frat boys to casual older people. The kind of people who weren't into games until now and shifted the market demographic.

Palm to face. The reaction to the dead island thing is a classic example of people bandwagoning so they don't end up that odd man out. I can honestly say not a single person here has actually played dead island. Its a game that takes place on a beach resort where 1/4 of it has bikini and beach clad zombies roaming around the place. I don't know why they choose this statute, but its not a representation of violence again women, its probably supposed to be a zombie torso. don't know why they did not just make a figurine instead of this, but I seriously don't think most rationale people would be offended.

And for the record horror is an extremely, extremely popular genre. People collect anything they can related to it, for those of you who have seen Sankrea you know what I mean. And there are plenty of people who enjoy this particular hobby that would be fine with this. Honestly, you people need to grow up. Its a collectable anyway, 70-90 percent of the people who buy this wont even open up the package, and will display the whole box as a set. I think very few would actually plop this down on their coffee table, but if they did so what. Only digusting thing are some of the ignorant comments flowing on this message.

And fans like y'all are hyperdefensive because the sort of anime you tend to consume most is often ludicrously misogynist, and you don't want to be cast in that light, so you deny up and down that any of it is misogynist at all.

Seriously, the logical disconnect you have to make to think that your average harem and moe shows have zero elements of misogyny - or at the very least really primitive ideas about gender equality - is staggering.

Now, watching and enjoying that stuff doesn't make you a misogynist, it doesn't mean you hate women or have prehistoric attitudes about gender equality (although many of you do, which I know because you express said ideas in these forums all the time. Certainly not all of you, but my point stands). But the content itself can be pretty blatantly misogynistic. And you don't like being told that, so when critics like myself (or - gasp - the several women I employ to write about anime here) do so, you get upset. It's understandable, but the piling on in this thread is getting ridiculous.

Also, the "this thing is really gross and sexist, don't ever call anything slightly less gross and sexist gross and sexist" is a pretty dumb line of logic. I get that you don't want to hear it, but I'm not going to tell Todd not to say it.

Crying misogyny over ever little thing deludes the original intent of the word for cases where it really needs to be applied, like this torso.