God amazing that sounds like a made-up internet fiction NES game. the Famicom era ruled, didn’t it.
like, MOTHER which had a straight-up arranged soundtrack w/ vocals accompanying it.
You get that sorta thing nowadays, i suppose, but the disparity between the “real”, fleshed out version of the music and the chiptune reality is so much larger in the old titles.
It was a crazy wild frontier, I tell you what. There are a few eras in games that have a unique, experimental nature to them (e.g., early PS1 era), but Famicom is hard to beat.
it’s such a shame because the ending scene of Terranigma is the culmination of all of Quintet – their ability to wrap a geologic perspective to mysticism into something personally felt. Legitimately the only time I’ve cried with a game.
[your character’s soul, the Ur-Hero, has broken its cycle and can dissipate]
Looking at how this works, they’re using a Miyazaki-esque flying dream (personal freedom, power) to express buddhist, humanist themes: acceptance of death, love for humanity in the abstract. Transforming the conceptual into emotionally impactful (the same could be said of all art)
wow.
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Shinobi is cool and all, especially the PS2 games, but I am expecting a generic ninja movie with the Sega license attached because someone thought it was still relevant.
Works for me. If they put the right daddies on this one it could be a cool and weird action movie.
A Shinobi movie makes more sense than, say, I don’t know, an officially licensed novella based on Road Avenger
You know, the laserdisc game from the 80s
As long as they do that scarf justice, I’ll watch it on Netflix
Sega knows what they’re doing with Shinobi movies.
50 bucks on them casting a white guy
well, his name is Joe so its no wonder they get confused
don’t toy with my heart, fucker
EDIT for Japanese dadrock:
I thought people knew this was a thing:
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUS120881+13-Jan-2009+MW20090113
Blame the rights holder and author for not delivering, not me
Somebody said, “You know what? It’s time for another SimAnt.”
I’m diggin’ how into it the narrator is.
Clearest memory of SimAnt is the somewhat unsettling ant lion/spider death animations.
