Recent content by Akigawa

I think you're looking at the hero of the film as the villain. Ralph wasn't only unrecognized, but he was mistreated and yelled at for doing his job. The real thing of the film is self-discovery; needing to leave home in order to figure out where you belong. Ralph's an agent of free thought...

The point still stands though, that seeing a girl swing a battle axe isn't that impressive nowadays. It's more of seeing a woman that's actually built to do just that in a game. Ys, to me, doesn't stand out for having odd characters, but the way they apply their mechanics and the absolutely...

The part about everything working/being built around mechanics being bad is satire-- It's meant to allude to the perspective of the slacked jaw developers expect us to have, as well as my own frustration with a lot of current usages of mechanics in a lot of games. I do apologize for the...

Ys, the really-confusing-to-pronounce-until-someone-actually-says-it series, came back in 2010 with the oath of felghana-- A very exciting thing for myself in particular. You know, there's a certain feeling you get when you clear something tough in Ys for the first time, of which you don't...

[EDIT: this was written before I read the entire thread, and I apologize for that. I was so busy writing that I didn't look entirely into replies. I hope this is still fresh and provokes thought despite that.] I think that while this analysis is completely valid, you present it in such a way...