Amelia, 34, she/her, Transbian Just some fighting game playing himejoshi who has spent way too many years of her life being raised by the internet and now has to live with those consequences Forever an Eva fan, also megucas Currently in the Hololive fandom, specifically HoloEN with an emphasis on Myth (Dead Beat, KFP, Kronie; to those who understand what those even mean) THIS IS NOT A SPOILER FREE BLOG I typically tag series appropriately and WILL use spoiler tags if the release is still considered ‘recent’. Example: ‘Flip Flappers spoilers’ or ‘SubaHibi spoilers’ If you need me to tag something for spoilers or content reasons, please feel free to let me know! I can also be found on Twitter (unfortunately): https://twitter.com/YuiMakinami Also recently changed living conditions and am trying to keep afloat!: https://willofasherah.tumblr.com/post/713899964352331776/hey-yall
oh great star fox opinion haver, what is your opinion on the latest sf64 remake?
oh brother.
i've come around on the new designs for the most part. i think a lot of the problems i have are in their human-like eyes and the Hire This Man-ness of how they're rendered, but they are not my least favorite star fox redesigns by any stretch. katt looks best out of all of them IMO, i think the previews would hit a lot different if everyone appeared as scrungly as her.
so, okay, it looks alright. if i'm ever at a friend's place with a switch 2 and they've got the sf64 remake on hand, i'll definitely play it. some of the new additions are cool. challenge mode letting you replay individual levels with new objectives is a great idea and perfectly suited to a game whose whole appeal is replaying it ten million times. expanding the multiplayer mode and taking it online is a nice investment on their part, as someone who always liked the sf64 multiplayer but wished it was a bit more robust. the v-tuber animation thing is... well, it sure is there. i hope they have more avatars available than just the members of star fox and star wolf, because zero of them are women and presumably greater than zero players of the video game will be women. but it's neat technology anyway. the memes are gonna be so choice.
yeah, idk. it's very strange to watch a nintendo direct where they're breathlessly expounding on gameplay features that remain utterly unchanged from what they were in 1997. which, you know, maybe giving that game its flowers makes sense when advertising to a new generation that doesn't really have its own star fox. it IS pretty sweet what they were able to pull off 25 years ago. i just wish this game was building on that foundation, instead of giving it a new coat of paint. give us a couple new levels at least, maybe a few new side characters? the added cutscenes are a nice narrative touch that i WILL be eagerly gobbling up as soon as there's a compilation available, but you are going to watch them exactly Once and then skip them every single other time for the rest of your life. i know this because i've played sf64 more times than i have eaten fish and i can count the number of times i've dutifully sat through all the pre-level exposition cutscenes without hammering the a-button the whole way through on one hand. it's probably the most budget-intensive New Thing they're adding to the game besides the multiplayer/v-tuber stuff, and as much as i am a cutscene defender i do think it's a bit of a waste.
fuck it, no more softball. sf64 is a reboot of snes star fox. sf64 3D is a remake of sf64. sf zero is a rebootmake of sf64. WE DON'T NEED ANY MORE! PLEASE! every time they try to do something new with star fox it's like, what if we took him out of his ship and made him run around solving box puzzles? what if we put him into a glorified visual novel? i'm not here to say those games capital-s Suck (though you won't catch me saying nice things about sf adventures) but they are categorically not what i want from a star fox game. you know how when knives out came out and everyone was like, "hell yeah, i want to see a new one of these every year for the rest of my life", and they made sequels that take the same basic formula but do slightly different things? so each movie is its own movie, but is still undeniably a benoit blanc mystery? i don't want to see benoit blanc in an action spy thriller. i don't want to see him in a romantic comedy. i want to see him in a detective story, because he is a detective. of course i'm always happy for an action-tinted or romance-tinted detective story, i don't mind bending the genre, but there's a core set of principles that have to be present otherwise the premise shatters and you're no longer watching a benoit blanc mystery. even if it's good, it is not the same thing.
that's how i feel about star fox. every time they try to do something new they break the premise, and then when it goes over like a lead balloon they're like "okay, we get the message now, everyone loves sf64 so it's time to give the people what they want... sf64 again!" NO!!! i want a star fox game that has the same level of path variance, the same diversity in the art design and layouts of each world, the same fundamental gameplay loop with (and this is SOOOO fucking important) the same general Game Feel that is the secret sauce of why sf64 is so replayable... i just want it in a different star system. give me new characters! give me new worlds! make a few more tank levels, and hell if you're good i might even approve more than one blue-marine stage! take the formula that works and build on its bones! you did this to great success with zelda for DECADES, why is it so hard for star fox???
and again i feel the specter of "well okay but you're old, THIS is sf64 for the next generation" trying to moderate the extremity of my opinion. my take on that is, doesn't the next generation deserve their OWN game? wind waker shares a lot of dna with other zelda games but it is MY zelda game. what if instead that had just been an ocarina of time remake, the way all the nerds complained about wanting? even if it was good, it'd just mean sharing all the same nostalgias and opinions and general understandings of the franchise that everyone who grew up with ocarina already had. i don't actually think it does much of a great service to younger generations to serve them a completely remade version of an old game. oh it's more "accessible"? it looks more "modern"? it has better "graphics" at a much higher "resolution"? cool. is that all it is? what about what it SAYS? this kind of HD remake is like trying to reverse engineer a really good joke so you can tell it a second time without having to write a new joke. yeah, sure, maybe it gets some laughs-- but it's still hack behavior. i hate that our culture feels this undeniable impulse to feed the young a vision of the old, as if making them share the same interests as us will somehow slow the creeping inevitability of our irrelevance. and the fact that this is the ONLY thing they seem to know what to do with star fox just puts a perfect little bow on the whole package.
now you might say, well, if the remake sells well maybe they'll build a sequel in the same engine! and like, yes, ideally that's exactly what should happen and if it does i'll be the happiest goat alive. but i don't know how you can look at nintendo's track record with this franchise and come away with a single molecule of optimism intact. add to this the way the announcement was shadowdropped with no fanfare and given a release date only a month away, and it's pretty clear that this is not a project nintendo has a ton of faith in. which, admittedly, has been the truth of star fox for pretty much all of its existence. but after what they did with donkey kong bananza, mario wonder, metroid dread etc, it's really disappointing that they can't seem to muster a single new idea worth pursuing. maybe it's because there's so much macro art of falco drowning countless innocent civilians in wave after pearlescent wave of
er umm uh yeah anyway i wish i could say the "serial numbers filed off indie sequel" game was strong in star fox's corner, but i have mixed feelings. whisker squadron plays well enough and has the right idea with its character designs and banter, but it's procedurally generated! i don't want to play a different level every time i play star fox, i want to play the same level over and over and over again until i've memorized my lines so well you'd think you were watching a movie! then there's ex-zodiac, which NAILS the game feel and has a drop dead gorgeous polygonal style reminiscent of the original snes star fox. unfortunately that leads to levels that don't quite have the same sense of reality that sf64's levels do. and then there's the fact that they flipped the star fox playbook on its head, and now the monkeys are the good guys and all the furries are the bad guys. i'm not saying this is inherently a BAD choice, but it does make for a less colorful cast. also both games lack voice acting despite having a lot of on-screen dialogue, which basically means that the dialogue may as well not exist. i know voice acting is a huuuuuuuge expense especially at an indie level, but can you imagine a world without "do a barrel roll"?
so that's where i'm at. a very tiny little part of me has some hope that right before the game comes out they'll reveal there is actually new stuff in the game, but i know this will not be the case. ALSO WHY ARE THEY JUST CALLING IT "STAR FOX" COME THE ABSOLUTE FUCK ON NINTENDO WHY ARE YOU ALWAYS TEN YEARS LATE TO EVERY TREND
Never getting over Charlie Kirk getting shot in the throat right after he uses it to downplay gun violence. Gotta be a top 3 assassination. Up there with Shinzo getting doohickey'd.
It's on some straight up Greek play shit. Man who uses his voice to justify violence and stir evil for years meets his end as that very violence tears out his throat. Poetic. Captured live from multiple angles. People stole his blood soaked merch to hock and his wife was giddy about sale numbers during his funeral.
Things that aren't a violation of Tumblr's ToS: Openly organizing and celebrating a mass harassment campaign against a vulnerable minority, being a literal Nazi, having slurs in your name.
Things that are a violation of Tumblr's ToS: Being transfem, being black, being a target of said openly planned and celebrated harassment campaigns
You need to start thinking of The Trans Community like a communist instead of just people who happen to share a demographic. Where's the community. Don't you have, like, theory and tangible political goals and yknow principles and stuff. No? You should,
The whole "there is no queer/gay/trans agenda we just want to live" is a good slogan for tugging on heartstrings but some of you need to get with the agenda
Idk I have thoughts about this. I've seen the more jaded transfeminists expressing that there is no meaningful "trans community", which I don't necessarily disagree with insofar as we're largely Not fucking organized whatsoever, But. Like. There are pockets of people actually putting effort into helping each other. And nihilism is counterproductive. I also have to keep my mouth shut about the Offline Activism because the pigs will get them! But it does exist
as a trans girl when you start transitioning people tell you that your sexuality might change and you might end up liking men which firstly, awful thing to say to vulnerable girls just discovering themselves but secondly, i think ive gone the other way and im even less attracted to men then i already was
While headlines were giving the Catholic church hierarchy plaudits for symbolic gestures in support of immigrants and a papal lunch with tra
Missing hormones. Canceled surgeries. Bureaucratic denials. Late last year the Catholic Church banned all trans healthcare across its sprawl
Quick summary on why this is significant:
There are many states (including states with progressive governments) where over 1/3 of all total available hospital beds/clinics/doctor office practices are in Catholic institutions (map here from 2020).
The ban is for all transgender healthcare: HRT, surgery, adults as well as children.
It is a new ban; many of these places previously provided trans healthcare and people have lost their coverage, often the only available coverage in their area.
The ban voted on by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, was passed with 206 in favor and 7 against, and they specifically quoted Pope Francis saying, "I want you to fight gender ideology, which is repugnant to the Bible and our tradition," as the reason why it was necessary.
More information on the Catholic Church being a huge driver of international transphobia can be found in Judith Butler's "Who's Afraid Of Gender?", chapter 2, "Vatican Views".
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