though I would probably rather see that character in the version of FFXV where the four main characters are all canonically gay and there’s no one around to objectify her for miles and one of the sidequests involves searching the entire world for a heterosexual to bring to the garage and you have to forge pieces of him from cactuars or some shit
I love how Akuma is not only in there, he’s a key character in the story mode, and he straight up plays exactly like a street fighter character who even has a different meter from everyone else in tekken and even though you can just sidestep the hadoukens he doesn’t seem too strong or too weak
it’s like… if their engine can somehow accommodate that so seamlessly, throw in Terry Bogard or something next, why not
I know “2.5D” means something else in the context of fighting games but I think it helps that Tekken is like “2.8D” and has slightly less Z axis movement than other 3D fighting games because I can’t imagine throwing a 2D fighter moveset in like it’s no big deal would work otherwise
Okay, so, the first 2.5 hours of FFXV are, like, the coolest de-abstraction of RPG party travel I could’ve hoped to play. I have no idea what this game’s story is, but setting up camp, training, and hanging out in the wilderness is just… really cool.
just thinking about all the nightmarish and then almost-good deconstructions of JRPG battle systems that square has been cycling through between type 0 and kingdom hearts and lightning returns and FFXV, it’s funny to me that they’ll have probably wound their way around to something that basically works and doesn’t feel like a broken version of a Japanese arcade game just in time for the FF7 remake after two full decades of prototyping
the biggest complaints i heard from friends re: Cindy are that her clothes make no sense for the job she does and she should probably be covered in burns and scars.
i also picked up Royal Edition of this for the Xbox so i could try it out in HDR, etc. plus, it’s on sale for $20. i’d been wanting to play through the game again at some point, and this felt like a good opportunity. it’s definitely the most fun i had with a FF game since the PS1 days.
Having worked at an oil change place right off a highway for a summer, yes, this is 100% correct. At the very least, her arms would be a scarred mess of burns and missing skin. I got so used to being burned over that summer that I would just scrape the dead skin off by hand.
you have to give them credit for trying so damn hard even after all the games that were just met with mediocre or lukewarm reception and nobody really remembers, e. g. the second musashi or code age commanders.