Alex

whooooo! Love parasites eve so much. Only thing I really dislike is having to replay almost the whole game again to get to the bonus dungeon. Not really a fan of games making you replay portions with little difference

My main gripe with demon slayer overall is I feel like it’s world building is pretty anemic in comparison to most of the other big shonen anime and most western made series, and it often felt like the plot was just there to take the characters from one fight to the next. A good earlier example is the short arc right after Tanjiro becomes a slayer, when he visits a village plagued by the disappearances of girls. In any other anime, probably the arc would follow the template of the character arriving in the village, learning something about the people there and what’s going on, meeting some new one-off characters who would help or hinder him in his quest, and may have their own development and subplots, the main character would investigate what is going on, and ultimately uncover who is behind the disappearances and confront them. But demon slayer leaves out that kind of typical story development, as soon as Tanjiro arrives in town he immediately knows a demon is around, and locates him right away, and a fight ensues. Do we learn anything about the town? Or the people living there? Do we learn much about the random side character who was there from the village? Not really. We just get right to the battle, without very much of the actual lead up that you would expect in most other series. On the one hand it can be a bit refreshing to just get down to business, but on the other hand all of that “lead up” type story telling is usually where the world building and depth and context is built in in other series, and demon slayer has a lot less of that. It’s world building does get better as it goes along, but I still feel, even as we are entering the final arc, that we don’t really know as much about this world and these characters as we typically would in any other series.

Cererra I don’t care, but I thought at first that maybe Capcom cared. My initial thoughts was basically “is Capcom saying that a woman needs to be the protagonist because it’s “more believable” for a woman to be scared than a man”? But in the end after thinking about it, I don’t really think that is what they meant, so it no longer bothered me

Don’t understand why so often Nier Automata is praised for its “replay value”. It’s all part of the same storyline playthrough, you are just switching characters. Stopping after you finished playing as 2B would be like turning off Last of Us part 2 after finishing Ellie’s campaign, or like stopping Sonic adventure 2 after only completing team Sonic’s stages. That isn’t “replay value” that’s just actually completing the game to its full extent. Not sure thag Nier Automata has anymore “replay value” to it than your average game, once you have truly finished the whole story

What is this based on, other than just speculation because of how long the first movie took?

I would really hope that with a multi-part story like this, with cliffhangers and stuff, that they would try to make sure the parts came out at a reasonable intervals. Imagine if there was a three year gap between Infinity War and End Game?

i was only annoyed at the comments at first cause I thought they were potentially sexist. Like are they saying that Leon isn’t a good match for horror because he’s a man, but the new protagonist is because she’s a woman?