27th January 2016, 6:11 AM
For some reason, the characters and dialog in the newer Fire Emblem games comes off very unnatural compared to past entries. It's like they are all stereotypes of Fire Emblem characters rather than actually BEING characters. The gameplay is still solid, but I just can't bring myself to actually care about any of these new characters in the same way that I did on the GBA games.
For the record, Final Fantasy's newer entries suffer from the same problem, as do most Japanese RPGs these days.
I read the article, and yes, there are some very creepy parts to that. I'm not going to claim that no one should use a touch interface for romance options, and "face touching" is innocent enough with someone who actually IS romantically involved with you, but the article goes on to say that you could creepily touch face with anyone and everyone, whether they're uninterested, subordinates, relatives, underaged, or different species! Intelligent Systems apparently is given free reign to do this stuff by Nintendo, and Nintendo needs to tell them to cut it out. You don't see this sort of stuff in Zelda.
And yes, spiking an unwilling person's drink to make them "straight" is entirely out of line. Heck, very little needs to change to take it back to respectibility. Just, I dunno, change the dialog to make that person WILLING to try a drug to alter their sexuality. However, even that is rife with problems if they don't work extra carefully to make it absolutely clear this is an individual's experimental choice and not a way to "fix" someone. As it is in the Japanese version, it comes off as males just seeing a female that they can't obtain, which is unacceptable, so they need to "fix" that.
All in all, the writing in these games has huge issues. When will they act like actual well-rounded PEOPLE? A QUIRK IS NOT A PERSONALITY!
For the record, Final Fantasy's newer entries suffer from the same problem, as do most Japanese RPGs these days.
I read the article, and yes, there are some very creepy parts to that. I'm not going to claim that no one should use a touch interface for romance options, and "face touching" is innocent enough with someone who actually IS romantically involved with you, but the article goes on to say that you could creepily touch face with anyone and everyone, whether they're uninterested, subordinates, relatives, underaged, or different species! Intelligent Systems apparently is given free reign to do this stuff by Nintendo, and Nintendo needs to tell them to cut it out. You don't see this sort of stuff in Zelda.
And yes, spiking an unwilling person's drink to make them "straight" is entirely out of line. Heck, very little needs to change to take it back to respectibility. Just, I dunno, change the dialog to make that person WILLING to try a drug to alter their sexuality. However, even that is rife with problems if they don't work extra carefully to make it absolutely clear this is an individual's experimental choice and not a way to "fix" someone. As it is in the Japanese version, it comes off as males just seeing a female that they can't obtain, which is unacceptable, so they need to "fix" that.
All in all, the writing in these games has huge issues. When will they act like actual well-rounded PEOPLE? A QUIRK IS NOT A PERSONALITY!
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)