29th January 2011, 12:18 AM
Quote:Etoven's the one that asked about the story, not I.I know, I was replying to both of you.
Quote:I know the stories are just excuses to blow things up in these games.Yeah, I think that's all you need in this kind of thing. :)
Quote: I still think the acronym "shmup" is downright bizarre, even by video game standards. I also forgot what it stands for...shoot 'em up, shortened.
Quote:Anyway, by insulting I mean it's insulting to think some marketing team (and we all know it WAS a marketing decision) thought that we Americans would only bother to buy the game if it had some random popular song licensed into it. It's that standard sort of thing that resulted in Final Fantasy 13's main theme song getting replaced by that cliche "My Hands" pop song (yet another strike against a game that the Japanese developers had already done enough to, at least the next game in this... game... looks fun).It wasn't just a single song though, it was a whole soundtrack, remixes of most or all of the songs from that CD. You are right though, about their reasoning (that they did it for higher sales because of the group's popularity at the time). I don't think this music is worse really though, just different... might even be better, I'm not sure.
JP version:
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