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Sup? Name's Mageknight 14 and I'm a sarcastic cunt. Pleased to meetcha. Love me some action games and RPGs.🔞NSFW sometimes🔞
Atlanta, GA
Joined September 2016
Was thinking about a comment on one of my posts and I figured, why not make a thread compiling all of my write-ups regarding the TWEWY duology, both mechanically and narratively? Will be putting this under my pinned too (need to update some of my charts anyway).
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I swear to God, if somebody posts that one fucking Vergil vid in the quote retweets.
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This comparison is insanely funny to me because when you look at the games, Dante is consistently shown to be the more responsible/wiser one despite his whole shtick being the party guy while Vergil is that one sibling who keeps falling for crypto schemes.
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Crazy how traveling to an alternative dimension/universe will mark the first time he actually comes across a black guy.
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Yap yap yap, get Dragon Kicked, nigga.
I'm sorry, we are not doing God hand apologia. the PS2 had some certified b angers. god hand was not one of them.
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Another day, another dumbass who can’t tell that Shoka is being rude as fuck in her dialogue here and that the English localization is capturing that rudeness.
This is one of the best examples with the issue with localization. In Neo TWEWY, in Japanese the character says “Bye” as a form of entitlement speaking in a foreign language, but EN says “Later Losers”. The correct choice would be “Ciao” as that’s what English speakers would say.
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I still remember when Joseph Anderson talked about wanting to watch the live action Cowboy Bebop without watching the anime in order to "own the weebs" and absolutely getting clowned the fuck on lmao.
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Claiming that Jet Set Radio is white considering the amount of black culture the games takes from is certainly a take.
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We used to be a proper society.
hit me like a train that we live in the worst era for action games bar none
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>Jet Set May Cry.The children yearn for the World Ends With You
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>makes Ed Edd n Eddy based solely off of a dare to make a kid's show.>it becomes one of CN's longest running and beloved shows.>ends with the series having a conclusive and satisfying ending.>owns the rights to it so no fear of shitty live-action reboots.Antonucci stays winning
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With all due respect, if you’re dungeon-crawling alone in dank-ass Tartarus while having a Persona weak to physical and naming yourself Hawk Tuah, I’m joining the shadows in jumping yo ass.
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DMC as a series is unironically more subtle in its character writing than a lot of people give it credit for. DMC3 directly never tells you that Vergil is primarily motivated by the death of his mother to try and gain power in order to never again feel that helplessness,-.
honestly I'm still not over dmc3 having like themes and stuff because half of the time people talk about that series they make it sound like the most vapid crap ever.
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Will never not get over how the only lesbian in the cast uses a special attack that rapidly ages her, meaning she's going to die shortly after the series ends while the rest of the cast gets to live full lives and thanks to her making a cure for them, even.
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"KH1 is janky garbo".Wrong. You just don’t know how to RPG.
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The fact that 4chan (on /co/, at least) is respectful when it comes to Boseman gives me hope that there actually are good people out there.
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I hate that I have to live with this knowledge and now you must all do the same.
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KH1 is that one game that keeps updating itself every year without any patches whatsoever, it’s nuts.
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These videos/memes are always so funny to me because Evangelion literally ends with Shinji doing pretty much what the right side says.
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What I love about KH1’s finale is that it’s basically Ansem going on and on about his research/various thesis statements/documentation has led him to conclude that darkness is the heart’s true essence and Sora, like any 14 year old, basically "nuh-uh"s him so hard he explodes.
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Can’t wait for the Tales of Graces F remaster to come out so that more people can see just how absolutely done Hubert is with everyone’s shit.
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Replaying through KH1 has also solidified my belief that Hollow Bastion is still one of the greatest video game levels ever made.
Replaying through KH1 has only solidified my belief that a lot of bosses/enemies that people have issue with can be efficiently and easily dispatched of if more people actually embraced its RPG roots and experimented with their abilities some more.
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Keep in mind that, in his late teens, Dante was savvy and responsible with his money to save up enough to buy his own place and start a business while Vergil was out there having one-night stands, killing demons, and hankering for more power.
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@MaagicMushies I love Netero because he at first seems like the wise, old mentor figure at first but then the series progresses and you start to see that he’s actually kind of fucking unhinged and a bit of a sore loser.
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>only two attacks .>enemies slide towards you .>tactics just devolve into spamming hit and run attacks while rolling.I can already tell that this game is gonna suck ass.
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It's always funny to me how whenever someone tries to say that an action game is like DMC/Bayonetta, they never consider the various amounts of ways you can manipulate an enemy's state in those games to be a part of the comparison/contrast.
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Vergil’s character is great because he’s simultaneously an incredibly cool character with sick fits, a domineering attitude, and slick playstyle while also being a petulant manchild who constantly refuses to see the forest for the trees thanks to his trauma.
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>Fiora is my favorite to play as so far
It also works for encouraging you to try out the other characters and see their own strengths- Fiora’s my favorite to play as so far and Reyn’s pretty fun too.
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Multiple games released since then and this is still one of the coldest things Vergil has ever done.
Been playing DMC3 Switch version with Free Style mode on and goddamn, it is a whole other beast and made me think again about how much I miss certain mechanics from the games going forward.
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BREAK THE SILENCE, REGAIN YOURSELF .WE’RE LOSING YOU.WE’RE LOSING YOU.GATES ARE CLOSING, RETAIN YOURSELF .WE’RE LOSING YOU .WE’RE LOSING YOU
It's so weird to see this guy on Fox News. He looks like how gay furries draw Bowser
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People making disparaging generalizations about mediums that have existed for literal decades due to their inability to explore beyond the absolute surface level is my villain origin story.
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@okamiokami11 Nigga, I don’t even like the new GoW games in comparison to the old trilogy, I’m just sick of seeing that fucking clip.
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Love when people just post the same PokeSpe panels over and over again just to get clout instead of the actual cool/heartfelt shit in the series.
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>Dark Maga.Between this and X, I’m starting to think Musk sees himself as a Kingdom Hearts villain.
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Gonna need a third hallway for this.
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MAN, WHAT A BUNCH OF JOKAS.
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With Shoka, she talks outright rudely with most characters (in JP this is done with a usual lack of honorifics, among a few other phrasing choices that don't translate directly).
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Fun fact: Tales of the Abyss actually goes the extra mile and accounted for NG+ having costumes/customization options that keep Luke’s short hair intact even in the beginning by explaining it as him just wearing a wig for no explicable reason and having the cast comment on it.
[Luke’s Resolve] Luke. “With this, I say goodbye to who I've been.”
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They slightly crank up her "rudeness" across the board in EN because a lot of it isn't going to translate properly, and her being so blunt is a pretty important part of her character that needs to be communicated.
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The game has a budget of two milkshakes and spare change but dude, come on.
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Ah, so that’s why the Xenoblade enemy name meme is a thing.
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Yeah, I don’t have a lot of faith in the Netflix series.
Seeing people talk about fans claiming that Vergil is an anti-hero was already wild enough. Seeing that the anti-hero sentiment came from the same dude in charge of the DMC Netflix series is just crazy.
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It’d be real nice if KH2 fans can talk up the game without putting down every other one in existence.
I know this is probably one of the coldest takes on the market, but it is astonishing to me that action games hit a definitive peak in 2005 and despite the gaming industry’s best efforts no one, including the company that made it, has never been able to replicate it since.
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Seeing some people come at this tweet with a take of "Dante low INT/high WIS while Vergil is high INT/low WIS" and honestly, I don’t think that’s even correct given how Dante is shown throughout the games to be a pretty smart cookie.
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I still think about "IS THAT THE SUPPORT BEAM TO THE HOUSE" to this day.
BEST line delivery in history.
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He’s well read enough to not only quote Shakespeare in his ham off with Agnus but use them to not only own the man physically but verbally ("and the rest is silence"), is constantly solving puzzles throughout the games to progress, is heavily implied/shown to be an accomplished-.
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but the game gives you tons of details in both his dialogue and his actions to help you come to that conclusion. "Might controls everything. And without strength, you cannot protect everything. Let alone yourself." Keep in mind that Dante never says anything about protecting-.
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>posts the very beginning of the game .>doesn’t even have four party members yet.>doesn’t even have Hard mode unlocked yet .Tell me about how mashing helps against those sharks and rhinos, bro.
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Decided to check out /vg/ to see how they reacted to the Midori drama and this post sent me into a coughing fit.
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anyone and that after this moment, Vergil then proceeds to take Dante’s half of their mother’s amulet and hold it to his forehead while closing his eyes, most likely reminiscing on memories of his mother.
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musician, and was able to piece together that Nero was Vergil’s son just based off of a few clues.
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The more I play XB1, the more I keep asking myself "this shit came out on the fucking Wii?" Because goddamn, the scope of this game is insane.
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Jak 2 is honestly a funny case because it’s actually both.
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Kratos tried to kill himself in the very first scene you see him in the first God of War game.
Things gamers don't want in games. Is there anything else you can think of?
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Often times, I feel like people conflate a game having a flashy combo system with a good combat system. On the surface level, you’d think that these would be the same but like many things, it’s in the little details and nowhere is this apparent than with games like Nier Automata.
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Seeing so much Graces reminds me of when Graces f PS3 first got announced outside of Japan. We had all given up hope on ever getting any of the Tales titles anymore. Graces was a beacon of hope. Just like it is now.
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@yosuvarley But don’t worry, Yosu! She got a female love interest (who she didn’t even interact much with) to be at her side while she’s bedridden and slowly dying while her friends have happy endings. Isn’t that just swell?
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It will never not be funny to me how TWEWY actually uses the academic definition of what a meme is to describe the mechanic and it’s taken seriously only for internet culture to evolve and look at this line in an entirely new way.
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In NEO TWEWY, enemies, when comboed enough times, can tech out of your hits and get knocked back in the air, which you can use to your advantage to lead them into traps. This is especially noticeable with shark Noise, who don’t flash red and gain armor like other enemies.
FGC Twitter, share with me your non-fighting game tech.
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So, is it normal to be doing tons of sidequests in Xenoblade without progressing the story just for the hell of it?.
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Seeing some discourse around what counts as a "true" RPG and I’m just getting reminded of this one interesting interview the director of the first Etrian Odyssey game once made on what he feels is the essence of an RPG.
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"Are Kingdom Hearts fans stupid" you’ve had people claiming that Nobodies having emotions/hearts all along was a retcon when the entirety of Chain of Memories and 358/2 Days spell out multiple times how that’s not truly the case, what do you think?.
Okay, I clicked on this to see why people hated KH3 and just. What the fuck?. When I saw this scene I assumed Aqua had a PTSD breakdown due to 10 FUCKING YEARS ISOLATED IN THE DARKNESS, which was pointlessly confirmed by Remind. Are Kingdom Hearts fans stupid?
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And for those of you wondering, the spells don’t make the fight anymore mechanically interesting either.
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@retrosaudade What you’re not getting is that Japanese language is basically politeness judo at its finest. What translates as rude and derogatory there won’t directly translate as such in English, thus the localization captures that with Shoka’s lines.
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Since today is the anniversary of both TWEWY games, I’d figure why not make a thread honoring both of them by exploring Neku and Fret’s similar traumas and how they cope with it in very different ways that play towards their core values? Here’s yet another TWEWY analysis!
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Oh hey, this post is blowing up. Stick around if you want to see some cool action game clips. Unlike a lot of the folks who repost the SunhiLegend Vergil vid, I actually post my own gameplay stuff.
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>timing a Chain Attack to the beat of You Will Know Our Names on a rare enemy and teetering on the edge of death but managing to etch a victory out anyway
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@KZXcellent Love how Dante goes "that is an insanely stupid way to try and settle our rivalry but fuck it, I’m way too tired to argue at this point, you and Nero have fun beating the shit out of each other.".
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One thing I think is really cool about the TWEWY games is how they go out of their way to reward you for doing side content in ways that aren’t immediately apparent to the player and I’ll be detailing how in this thread.
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I don’t think Souls is personally killing other kinds of action games (games being far more expensive to develop for nowadays has more to do with that) but I do believe that the way people approach it and other action games has put a serious damper on game design discourse.
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Pov: your life is about to change forever
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@MaagicMushies I also love how it’s hinted at too considering how he’s willing to accept just about anyone into the Hunter Association regardless of how potentially amoral they are.
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I see the ZZZ fans are getting cocky again. We should fix that.
As a die hard The World Ends With You fan, I have to say. NEO TWEWY wish it was Zenless Zone Zero
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NEO TWEWY, my beloved
even metaphor refantazio in 2024 has static camera angles. these are not “limitations” these are creative choices. it’s just that AAA games just choose to make the same creative choice.
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This is just off the top of my head, mind you.
Imagine if cool older women were allowed to look older than 30 in anime.
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One thing that always gets me about TWEWY is how natural the slang actually feels whenever the characters engage into it. I can legitimately believe that a real teenager would actually say this stuff.
You know what game has a character who speaks using AAVE and it sounds good the whole time?. TWEWY
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Some dude posted the Japanese guidebook for NEO TWEWY on 4chan listing the character ages and I gotta say, I was not expecting this.
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Just watched this video on character design from an RPG channel and man do I have some issues. Complaining about trends while having TWEWY, a series all about the current trends of modern youth culture and the characters within it, flashing on the screen, is a hell of a take.
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Shibaposting in NEO TWEWY threads is a goddamn miracle
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I was today years old when I found out that Miki Yamashita, artist who designed Nagi and possible other characters for NEO TWEWY, is also the character designer/avatar designer of Kingdom Hearts Union Cross. She also designed Strelitzia as well.
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>according to the new Avatar leaks, everything Korra had achieved in her run was all for nothing .You know, maybe people should stop hating so much on Korra, especially since the writers are already doing a bang up job at that for them lmao
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As a TWEWY/Tales fan, what you said is practically music to my ears.
@mageknight14 Sena has a whole character arc locked behind a series of sidequests and if you don't do a bunch of random quests to get Segiri in your party you'll never see the end to her arc, all that from not progressing the story.
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One thing I find really interesting about both TWEWY games is how the mechanics of the Reaper’s Games shown off in both is reflective of their respective city’s values and cultures and I wanna explore that in this thread.
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I’ve been seeing niggas say "NEO TWEWY walked so that ZZZ can run" for its gameplay. No, NEO ran 15 miles on the track field with enough time to pick up the kids from school while ZZZ is trudging along on a treadmill hoping to match some of NEO’s swag (it can’t).
you know something that's a little petty but that I'd stand by. I bet the vast majority of people praising ZZZ for having JSR/TWEWY vibes don't actually like either of those games. It's annoying hearing them used to gas it up.
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I like how if you don’t have the context, this just looks like Riku hating on some random ass girl. Like damn, he’s not even that venomous towards Ansem or Xehanort.
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Me when some nigga tries to start discourse around NEO TWEWY’s localization yet again:
Also holy shit, Shulk is absolutely fucking pissed.
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Happy birthday to Shiki Misaki from the World Ends With You series.
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Neku Sakuraba: "I don’t get people. Never have, never will.".Also Neku Sakuraba:
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@cosmicectoplasm Yep. They’re also heavily implied to ambiguously genderless/non-binary. Yeah…
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TLDR: NEO TWEWY kids are more fucked up than you think.
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