Front Mission 2 color options menu (source: lowpolyrobot@twitter)
#ik its my pinned but im thinking about this again#itd make for such a good storytelling imageset of mech pilots in a bittersweet fight where its all black and white page 1#and then color starts getting added from the palettes in this over time#smth like a mentor and the young pilot hes been training / ribbing on having to fight for w/e reason#w/ the young one crying in anger and confusion at a perceived betrayal#while the mentor grins and holds back tears and plays it like its just a game#bc he always knew this day would come and is relieved he trained the pilot well enough to overcome him and survive#w the finale of in my/your mind and you/me/you and me#being memories of sitting together and shooting the breeze at a bar or smth#and you and me being a return to monochrome once the fight is over & the mentor is dead w a content look as the young pilot stands over him#i have so many feelings about this menu#i truly think it is one of the most poignantly beautiful things to ever be put into a video game#and i think that the lack of any relevance to anything to the point it didnt make it to the remakes like#someone just wanted to put this in. i wish i could find who it was#i want to know what they were thinking of#how they felt. how they thought others would feel about this. whether it was meant to as deeply artistic and ironic as it comes across#given the game being mecha and all.#or was it just some silly little thing. was this even how it was done in the japanese release? i should emulate it and check sometime#or was it just a localizer putting in their poetic expression in a little side menu many people would never even see#out of the way and unintrusive so likely to be overlooked by any overseeing team but inexorably there nonetheless#its beautiful and what little context i have for it only enhances that#any added context no matter what the story of it is would still continue to enhance the awe i feel at it#because someone made it for one reason or another and it made its way to me and affects me the way it does#its easy to forget that every part of an assembled thing came from someone somewhere#and whether it was rote or intentional or a casual afterthought#it still carries that person and their story to other people
