#box muses

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On the one hand, I honestly think that this Charlotte character’s outfit makes sense, traditionally fighters go topless, it’s to emphasize a rough, no-holds-barred style. Nintendo couldn’t make a female character of this class without upping the rating on it, and given that they’re trying to get FE to a larger audience and it’s still at the end of the day, a kid’s game, they’re not going to do that. So what the hell, give her a bikini top, I’m down with it. And I like the bow too, I like it when characters don’t follow the archetypes of their class, that’s half the reason I love Brady so much.

But on the other hand, as a fighter going topless to emphasize strength, she should be a lot more buff. Like she’s kinda sorta got abs, but that’s about it. Her arms are too skinny and her stomach too smooth for what they’re going for, and it kinda just perpetuates this weird concept that media in general has that all of a woman’s physical strength comes from and can be represented via their cup size.

Which is kinda stupid.

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Like,

character design and character personality obviously have a lot to do with each other, they should be connected unless the joke is some kind of juxtaposition between the two.

But at the same time, there’s a difference between creating a personality alongside a cohesive design that for some reason or another is sexy or in some way sexual

and making a sexy/sexual design and building the personality around it as an excuse.

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Man,

Dead Rising is really fun, and a testament to how a single inventive idea can carry a game, but,

the combat mechanics really suit themselves more towards fighting hordes of enemies (as you’d expect in a zombie game), and that makes some of these boss battles where you have to whittle away health stupid difficult. Moreso than I think was intended.

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Imagine if Gravity Falls had come out in 2012 tho. Like, tumblr would collectively treat the Gravity Falls fandom as these magical theory-crafters, if any post ended with some kind of broad, unanswered question, hundreds of people would reblog it asking the Gravity Falls fandom for help, any batshit theory post could've been prefaced with "I'm in the Gravity Falls fandom so I know what I'm talking about".

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Like,

fuck it I ain’t staying in the tags for this,

it’s a game about rising tension. The entirety of every night in every Five Nights at Freddy’s game, (though mostly 1 and 2, 3 got pretty liberal with the jumpscares) is about building tension and suspense in the player through lack of agency and an enemy that you can only really see half of the time. The whole point of it being on a timer system and not a progression system is to allow the tension to balloon up naturally until one of two things happens.

Either A) the tension is released positively after the player makes it to 6 AM, they breath a sigh of relief and maybe proclaim their victory to the heavens before moving on to the next night,

or B) the tension is released negatively through a jumpscare, as the player jumps and possibly screams out of shock.

It’s basic fucking feedback, the player is punished for not playing well enough with jumpscares and they’re rewarded for playing well enough by being able to advance the story, the jumpscares aren’t cheap or arbitrary they’re used to violently inform the player that they fucked up.

Outside of 3.

I have problems with 3.

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As cool as the idea is, I don’t think Samus would have feathers or any

outwardly apparent bird-like features.

The Chozo weren’t trying to turn her into one of them, they were just giving her all the biological enhancements that they have using their own DNA, but the Chozo were masters of bioengineering, I don’t think they’d give her anything she didn’t need. And their planets seem to vary in temperature enough to where there’s gotta be someplace she can stay and not be cold.

Now, is she filled to the brim with cybernetics, probably. But I just can’t see the feathers thing.

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Pictures of Korra with a tattoo have got to be the most inaccurate to the show, like I don’t doubt she would want one, but there is no way in earth, heaven, or hell that Tenzin would ever let her get one.

Korra can slip his watch to go participate in Pro-bending and do that kind of shit, but the moment she would get near a tattoo parlor Tenzin would know and would fly his ass straight there to give Korra the talking to of a lifetime.

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I don’t think any single video game character has ever been so heavily defined by an isolated non-regular gameplay section the way that Samus has become defined by the Zero Suit.