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I hope my posts don’t seem like “takes” but instead a joyful banter of a rotund monk in a 50 soul village near the river Ob
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She immediately went back to being a complete loser grub after her magical dimension hopping journey of self-discovery.
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Strange how people keep saying that "Shuro hates in Laios the same traits he supposedly loves in Falin", which is...
Seriously, look at him and his dialogue - does he hate Laios for being a monster freak? For being nerdy and weird and loving nature? For eating bugs? No, that's not it.
Shuro hates* Laios for being so profoundly socially inept (from his perspective).
The key difference between Touden siblings isn't that Falin is a pretty girl - the key difference is that Falin is caring and accommodating to other people, and Laios is awkward and unobservant, seemingly egotistic at the surface level.
(others have already written wonderful essays on why and how they grew up like that)
It has to be noted that Shuro is a sheltered noble from a land where proper etiquette is paramount - he is used to people being incredibly subtle AND incredibly observant around him. He comes from a high-context culture where everyone assumes things based on lots of social cues and shared understanding of context. That's not even a matter of being neurotypical, that's his culture (in addition to his personality and brain chemistry)
He is also rather introverted as person and doesn't have many friends. Even his attachments and emotions in childhood are expressed subtly, in a restrained and proper way. He is polite and refined, perfectly fitting into his house's expectations - even if that means repressing his childhood interests and little weird joys.
In that particular way, the opposite of Laios.
Shuro hates* Laios for being the opposite of the image HE was grown into. This strange man is so utterly insensitive and so open about it - he has no sense of shame (like Shuro), no tact and ability to shut up (like Shuro), no restraint (like Shuro). Look at him talking non-stop about things he wants to talk about and having fun (unlike Shuro) while completely overestepping Shuro's obvious boundaries!
The boundaries, I must say, that not only never before needed to be spelled out, but in Shuro's upbringing and culture would be as ridiculous to spell out as "I want to pee, so I'll go to the bathroom and remove my pants and sit on the toilet and release the sphincter holding my pee in my pee bladder"
Falin is not only awesome in his eyes for being weird and in touch with nature, but for being very delicate, observant and caring AT THE SAME TIME. She is a gem in Shuro's eyes, a miracle of his dreams.
In Falin, he not only sees a nerd-freak - he sees a hope for an introverted, polite, restrained person like himself to reconnect with that love for nature and nerdiness and freakiness.
Laios isn't like that. Laios is unobservant for subtle cues - and so a lot more loud, persistent, enthusiastic and unwittingly annoying. Yes, Falin has all that inside her too - but she restrains herself in order not to be a burden. And so does Shuro, in order to fit expectations. There's similarity between them in that regard, between two introverted and restrained weirdos. And a hope for a kindred, more open soul, from the more restrained Shuro's perspective.
* - I don't think Shuro's feelings to Laios are properly described as hate. Yeah, in his darkest moment he says that, but honestly it felt more like an accumulated stress from a continuous cultural and personal misunderstanding, rather than a profound personal hate.
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What was the post about?.. Oh, yeah, Shuro loving Falin and disliking Laios. That's not him being too horny to think, that's him loving in Falin the defining difference between the two - they aren't gender-swapped clones, after all. Give my boy some respect and nuance.
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Concept: conservationist metroidvania where the only way to get the best ending is to avoid killing any of the endangered local wildlife, which gets progressively harder throughout the game because each mobility upgrade creates new ways to accidentally explode critters.
This post has received the expected range of pissing-on-the-poor responses (e.g., people ignoring the particulars of the proposed scenario and assuming that I just don't know what a pacifist run is, or that I'm falsely claiming to have invented the idea, or that I'm unaware of other metroidvanias which have implemented pacifist runs in the past, etc.), but I've gotta admit I'm a little bit fascinated by the one that was like "this is just Pikmin".
I feel like the particulars of the scenario aren't obviously distinguishable from a pacifist run because people underestimate the impact of developers being actively adversarial to a pacifist run. Most people's video game experience is limited to games that the developers want a wide audience to complete!
Yes, most games have pacifist runs, some even with official support, but it's rarely a major focus of development or mechanics. You may think the devs of a particular game are out to get you - I can assure you they are not. But they could be.
I'm imagining stuff like it being possible to kill something underneath the platform you're running across if you use the wrong dash mechanic - if you go too slowly, the platform falls and crushes it, if you go too fast, the explosions caused by your big stompy feet crush it instead. (And of course, the hitboxes are always slightly larger and longer-lasting than the effects.)
You need to picture a game where every single mobility upgrade has the same potential for accidentally fragging random wildlife as Metroid's screw attack. The high jump boots cause you to emit a damaging plume of superheated exhaust every single time you jump. There's a ubiquitous species of frugivorous quasi-simians that think your bombs look delicious and will steal and eat them (and then blow up) if you set one within their line of sight. The upgrade that gives you immunity to environmental damage takes the form of a shimmering force field that attracts small birds and fries them like a bug zapper.
The stealth upgrade lets you bypass certain large predators, but conversely, there are prey species where if you decloak within a certain radius of them, they have a heart attack and die of surprise.
The upgrade that confers knockback immunity is better to avoid entirely in the conservationist run unless you're also going for 100% because it causes creatures with ramming attacks to take potentially lethal contact damage as they slam into your immovable bulk.
There's a biome which contains lurking subterranean ambush predators which die if they attack you and miss, obliging you to make careful use of your scan visor to detect and avoid triggering them.
The following biome introduces a species of improbably radiation-sensitive rodent that explodes when scanned.
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