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i hope you've been keeping your eyes on those leaks because wow the games look so much worse than what GF had told us
Iâm super late on all this, but SwSh is actually pretty okay. Not okay like Rise of Skywalker is like that revyu i just wrote, but itâs enjoyable. Expecting literally nothing before I started the game made it much easier to enjoy since I wasnât being let down constantly.
That said, itâs stupid fuckin rushed. If Pokemon games are going to be good in the new 3D era of models and animations and textures and shit, GameFreak NEEDS more time to develop the games. Iâve said to some of my friends that they should follow the Call of Duty model and get a second (and/or third) developer to make spinoffs in off years while GameFreak puts the necessary time and energy into main series installments.
GameFreak isnât super rushed and stressed out, Pokemon [Snap 2/Mystery Dungeon Switch/DP Remakes] get to come out, and the main series games stop being ass. Everyone wins!
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Alternatively, we go back to 2D sprites since they looked better anyway. Fight me.
That's just on RT though, and they're apparently in bed with the studios these days. So it's entirely possible that marketing has caught on to the fact that they can use the critic/user split to their advantage by freezing the aggregate score at favorable levels. Or at least, that theory appears to fit based on the user reviews the movie has on other sites.
Yeah, I donât think the movieâs super well-loved, just that RTâs audience score being higher than 40% is an indicator that the actual audience reception is way more positive than all the harsh reviews let on.
spoilers maybe iâm terrible at remembering details and the thingâs like 3 hours long so
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Reyâs out and about rootinâ and tootinâ and shootinâ getting Jeddy training from Layer when something happens shit man I really donât remember very many details from early in the movie okay so like the theatre that I usually go to for big movies I wanna see is a place called Cinebarre where they serve food and booze while you watch movie so like I was kinda buzzed for most of the film
Shit happens, Rey lightsabers stuff, Kylo is an edgelord, a fancy knife is required, Reylo is stupid, the end
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Rise of Skywalker is more or less what youâd expect from a decently-executed Ster Wer sequel. Nothing about it is terrible by any means, but it does suffer from one very significant issue:
The Last Jedi.
JJ Abrams didnât make TLJ, and TLJ basically just said âFuck Youâ to everything that The Force Awakens set up, so Rise of Skywalker spends quite a lot of its time un-fucking the sequel trilogy after TLJ fucked it, which leads to the film feeling pretty rushed throughout.
Not rushed like Sword and Shield were rushed, more like how Frozen felt rushed; Way too much goddamn stuff happens very quickly and not enough of it gets the time it deserves. Characters pop in, pop out, shit happens VERY quickly and you donât really have time to think about what just happened, ESPECIALLY if youâre 3 drinks in.
By the end of the movie, stuff just sorta happens for no reason since they donât have time to establish a reason, BUT it largely involves the weird sorta interaction Jedi have with the dark side (I still donât know why you automatically become a Sith if you strike down another Sith while theyâre telling you to do it. Five minutes later when theyâve stopped telling you to do it is fine, but if you stab âem while they want it? Bam, youâre evil. For some reason), which has been explored and explained before, so itâs not too terrible.
The movieâs not perfect, but itâs pretty enjoyable for what it is. You rarely feel like youâre watching a scene that has no purpose (unlike that entire goddamn casino debacle in TLJ), and the actions of each character donât seem too out of place (except for one lady who just sorta gives the dudes a maguffin for no reason even though itâs explicitly stated that she hates the dudes).
Itâs not gonna be the movie you write home about, but, like, itâs pretty good. I ranked it solidly in the middle of the 9 main Star Wars movies
(yeah, I know itâs heresy to not have Empire at #1- I just like A New Hope, okay?)
Itâs very much an okay movie. Iâve said that like 6 times now. That said, I give it extra points because it was severely handicapped by having to follow TLJ.
I just... I just really donât like TLJ, okay? Even the prequels are kinda goofy action-packed bullshit, but TLJâs just sorta empty. Thereâs no reason to rewatch it, whereas the prequels are honestly pretty damn good if you manually edit out 98% of the scenes with Anakin and 105% of the scenes with Jar-Jar. And by that, I mean Ewan McGregor was good as Obi-Wan and heâs basically the sole reason why I enjoy the prequels at all.
Oh, Ian McDiarmid too. Prequel Palpatine was just dumb fun.
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Anyway, Rise of Skywalkerâs pretty neat. 6.5/10. Kinda fucked up that they try to get brownie points for having LGBT representation when itâs, like, 1.5 seconds of 2 background women having a kiss after the big victory. So fucking token. The tokenest of token representations. Guess itâs easier to edit out for the Chinese cut later amirite feLLAZZZZZZZZZZ
TL;DR: Rise of Skywalker jams too much into a short span of time because it has to pseudo-retcon a bunch of stuff that Rian Johnson fucked up in TLJ, but itâs a reasonably enjoyable Star Wars movie aside from that. Far from the worst. Super goddamn far from the worst holy shit itâs not even close.
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