Statistics
All Anime Stats Anime Stats
Days: 114.8
Mean Score:
5.94
- Watching65
- Completed530
- On-Hold1
- Dropped85
- Plan to Watch155
- Total Entries836
- Rewatched0
- Episodes6,587
All Manga Stats Manga Stats
Days: 46.4
Mean Score:
6.16
- Reading62
- Completed201
- On-Hold18
- Dropped14
- Plan to Read224
- Total Entries519
- Reread0
- Chapters8,340
- Volumes856
All Comments (560) Comments
even the soundtrack is astonishingly beautiful
And if you never played xenogears absolutly play it, its one of my all time favorites, tonally and scale wise its pretty unlike any game ive played.
And then the final icing on the cake, the final episode gives him an incredibly happy ending free of consequence cause fuck writing. It just reads like a new writer came on board and spited the previous anime's writer so they just shit on everything. The thing that makes it so bad is that i swear for the entire first 13 episodes it was really good to fine, then it just hops off a fucking cliff in quality and turned into this frustrating experience that goes against everything that made the original show have fans, thankfully its not just an unpopular opinion cause from episode discussions everyone seems genuinely pissed off
Also one thing to worry about with kiwami, is the mortality of the cast. back in 2005 when the first game was made quite a few characters are sort of just macguffins that die very quickly to motivate plot changes, 0 took those characters and fleshed them out to be more than just plotpoints, but in a way it feels that it only makes their small screen time before they are halphazardly killed off a bit worse especially since 1 super cool character in 0 diesoff screen after only one cutscene in 1.
After playing kiwami definetly consider working through the series from 2 onwards. Youll need to adjust to how drastically more simple the combat is and I hope 0 doesnt spoil just how excellent the series expands upon itself, but this whole franchise is so great and I'd argue its worth it just to get to yakuza 5.
this guy's videos are on point and I'm a big fan if you cant tell, I highly recommend all his stuff. His series called devious intent where he goes into exploring gaing villains is a reak treat and has made me greatly appreciate some antagonists I didnt before, though be warned those videos are immensely spoiler heavy
As for anime and stuff, aside from ongoing stuff I've been watching pretty much only yugioh gx just to get it finally off my watching list, when I get out of school im gonna spend 1 week just marathoning all i have left in a go. I've primarily been only playing games in my spare time cause of how insane this year is, right not tackling yakuza 0, ni oh, and persona 5 all at once and want to try and somehow see if I can beat all 3 before june ends.
Frankly while I could write paragraphs upon paragraphs about this franchise I simply cannot do it to the same level of quality and information as this video
Do not get turned off by that length trust me on this, you really only need to watch the first like 10 minutes as most of the video goes into breaking down what each game in the series is like on their own, but honestly this video is so well put together it does not feel like an hour long.
The only warning I really have, is that make sure you can work backwards in gameplay mechanics, there's a couple things I dont like about 0 (or the remake of 1 which isnt actually that good apparently) being the first in the series for a new fan and thats largely a part of how its going to make the massive improvements the series takes with each game feel more minuscule, but also how 0's story is kind of based around the player having knowledge of who these characters are and how they are totally different from how they are in the other games, majima, for example, is significantly crazier in the main games so him in 0 is kind of a curveball. This is largely me as a longtime biased fan talking, anything i want to say is said in that video.
I will probably devote alot of December to XV. I knew it was going to be the most divisive entry in the series but i have little doubt i wont at least give it an 8 especially when the people i trust the most for reviews gave this one