Dracozombie

Well it's not that I'm totally immune to it, or that I won't flinch a bit after a good dose of Eye Scream. It's not even something that I consciously do -- maybe I just have an iron stomach for rancidity.

Angsty posts happen to the best of us. Hopefully things will smooth over eventually and no one will treat it as the end of the world.

Kinda sums up how I approach the awesome clusterfiretruck that is the KH series. KH is one of those series that, to me, almost feels counterproductive to point out all its flaws. I encourage critical discussion, and that involves analyzing its flaws and its strengths and assessing what makes it tick. But with KH, it never seemed like I was better off having seen someone pick at its roots for its imperfections. Much of the shaky pacing and retcons among games were partly influenced by external decisions, such as rushing production, or stalling for time by including a (perhaps unnecessary) side game that plants yet another plot point we'd need to keep track of. I'm sure if Nomura had everything his way, more than a few things would've turned out differently. Since much of the flaws people point out have to do with these business decisions, I don't feel analytical to endlessly pointing them out -- I just feel like I'm taking the piss out of mistakes that have already happened, can't be fixed, and with no guarantee they'd be avoided in the future. Rarely have I gained anything from these discussions. I haven't appreciated KH more by calling out the bullshit. I haven't felt satisfaction from it, I don't feel productive. Mainly I've only felt worse about the series by seeing how flimsy the foundation really is. So, rather than try to change what can't necessarily be fixed, I'd rather just learn to live with it. And when people constantly discuss the flaws, the implication is that, no, they can't be lived with. Say what you will about KH being the sort of game where you'd need to keep the wool over your eyes to enjoy yourself, but, I wanna enjoy myself. Because it's a game and I wanna like it, so I prefer to avoid discussions where "The thing you enjoyed before I took it apart and revealed how shaky/unnecessary it was? Yeah. It's shaky/unnecessary, so I have no idea why you enjoy it." Days and BBS are common punching bags.

It's weird, most everyone complains about the gameplay, but I legitimately thought it was fun. o.o The controls themselves are primitive by KH standards, but it's much better using the 3DS's gamepad. Plus I love the grid system.

Am I the only one who actually likes Days?

Of course! But then, most every part of the body sweats when that asshole sun gets too chummy with the planet.

I thought I was the only one. Now I feel less weird.

I got him a meal from Carl's Jr. He flat-out requested it for his gift. There's something admirable in being pleased with the simple things.

Okay, I guess the duel should be at the girlfriend's yard. Host their milkshake-off uninterrupted.

Clearly the one whose milkshakes bring the boys. That's the whole point of this battle.

Make them duel. Whoever makes the better milkshake is victorious.

That sounds like a movie I'd watch, and honestly, a movie other people might benefit from.

I think people these days, when they hear 'Cloud' or 'FFVII,' think more along the lines of the Compilation than the original. I'm just concerned that perception will leak into how they present the remake.

They might not change things around, but they could take it in a direction that might not be flattering. His voice actor could be directed to recite Cloud's devil-may-care lines with his AC "Why bother" inflection, and that performance could make a difference.

Well... yeah, honestly, it might be. The main focus has been towards the Compilation, where things really ARE more emo compared to the original FFVII. And with Cloud's personality in his appearances in KH, Dissidia, etc, I don't have a lot of faith...

If I had to pick one, Sora. He's the guy who'll save everyone, because he has the power and will to do it, so I could picture him sacrificing himself somehow if it meant saving everyone and everything. Even hypothetically, I can't picture any of the other core good guys dying without it being meaningless or redundant. All that work to save them, and they just die again? So, it might as well be the hero.

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I don't think that's what they consciously mean, but it's the sort of attitude they seem to give off. How can people like [X]? And then when something they happen to not like gets popular, they act like THEY'RE the victims because oh dear, they have to see it everywhere even though it sucks!

And I'm one of the weirdos who legitimately enjoyed Frozen more than Tangled. So it just gets annoying when I wind up constantly hearing how it's soooo overrated. Why do you have to "ignore" the praise? Why can't people just appreciate that something, even something they personally don't enjoy, still manages to make other people happy? Instead they act like there's something wrong with the people who like so-and-so.

And regardless, the things I like I generally hold near and dear to myself, so it's not a fun thought to see something you love being shit on by someone else.

Even if YOU know there's something more to it than that (like KH), it still sucks when they also give you shit for liking it. It's even worse when they actually manage to give you a well-thought out reason for why it sucks, to the point where you actually question yourself and even feel guilty for liking it to begin with. It's like, is my taste so sad that it's the only reason I can like something so poor? For instance, everyone shits on Days but it's one of my favorites.

Disgust? Surprisingly she doesn't do much, at least not much that I'm aware of.

Fear and Sadness take turns at the control panel, accompanied by Anger from time to time. Joy gets a shot here and there, buuuut...

Do you know the secret to your apathy? Because it's a trick I'd like to be able to perform.