Maybe if they didn't try to make it a fucking movie with 100+ hours of meaningless fluff dialogue like all of these showoff hacks making pretty messes do, it would have done better. Even Nier Automata didn't forget it was a video game first and foremost.
I'm a bit less worried about that, as long as it's not a drastic change I think it could actually be interesting, or at least not intolerable. As long as they don't make it cringe or woke then it's okay to experiment a bit, but we definitely don't need to lose another turn-based series.And story/theme/tone because remember, they are now going after a more "mature" style and fan now as well as the new battle system..
Square Enix is on this weird phase were they want to please the normies and the true fans at the same time. In the end you end up pleasing no one. I wouldn't be surprised if they end up getting bought by Sony in a few years as they are bleeding a lot of money. Final Fantasy XIV won't be able to keep them from sinking forever.
This kind of shit is one of the reasons why modern SE deserves to die:
Seriously.. this is her "swimsuit" skin!
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Tifa is saying what I'm thinking.
Tbf yuffie is 16, so I’d find it weird if all the EDP’s were thirsting over her.
Honestly, as time goes on, the less and less I see this being the case. Getting in bed with Sony is why they are in this position to begin with (losing sales through PS5 exclusivity). And Sony has its own issues with their floundering console and game sales. Buying Square Enix won't really help them in that regard due to Squeenix's own floundering sales and massive debt, remembering that we are probably less than a decade removed from Sony themselves being in debt up to their eyeballs. That buyout would be a wreck on a wreck.
As if that's ever stopped anyone before.
Japan has always done some weird stuff with regards to censorship. Xenosaga I was infamous in that its censored version was even creepier than its uncensored version.
She's not real and as long as she isn't who cares if someone is thirsting over her? I find it weird people are thirsting over a literal Materia digging thief.
To be fair here the Aerith one that came after is much better
This kind of shit is one of the reasons why modern SE deserves to die:
Seriously.. this is her "swimsuit" skin!
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And remember that this is the Japanese/Asian version!
The unbuttoned shorts made her look like a retarded hooker. It's much better now.
Real or not it can be a problem. What matters more is how old a character looks though, which is why the 9000 year old dragon excuse doesn't fly.
I didn't even notice the difference at first, especially because the post says "bottomed" and I got confused (obviously meant buttoned once I noticed). On principle they shouldn't be altering the design to be more politically correct, but it looks fine either way.
She didn't even look like a kid, just an uncanny midget.
If it's sufficiently obscene, I disagree. But an anime girl who could pass for 18 having unbuttoned shorts isn't particularly bad, so in this case it shouldn't have been censored.
She's a fictional character, who cares. Especially because how "old" a character looks is entirely arbitrary and can shift just by whatever art style an artist chooses to use.
I don't wanna derail the thread debating it, I don't feel too strongly about the topic anyway, but suffice to say there's certainly a point where any normal person would find even fictional content objectionable and obscene.
Finding something objectionable and obscene isn't the same as something actually being morally wrong. But yeah, I don't want to derail the thread. However, I think we both agree that the Yuffie censorship is stupid.
Nah, Square Enix is already pozzed. They don't need to be told to do what they already want to do.
Both Squeenix and Snoy are pozzed for a decade and some change and will forever be pozzed until they go bankrupt.
