Recent content by Aethelric

It should be quite good. We'll see if the combat is actually improved. I hated the old system enough that just about anything more fluid would make me weep tears of joy, as the storyline and immersion of the first game were the only thing that made me slog through each combat encounter...

Sweeping generalization with no merit. There are a lot of terrible games from both sides of the Pacific and neither American nor Japanese RPG's can claim to be "better written". FF7 is an example of a relatively (for the genre) well-written story, and is the exception. Remember that, as...

By American standards of masculinity (John Wayne, Clint Eastwood) and especially our video game standards of masculinity (space marines, grizzled WWII paratroopers), there are virtually no masculine, non-emo JRPG characters. I want to blame it on an essential cultural divide, but the...