therhinestonehawk

the myth of the franchise installment hated by fans at release and over time considered an "underrated gem" plagues the final fantasy franchise maybe more than any other in the videogame space. VIII, IX, XII, XIV and even XV have in the years since their release received general acclaim or revaluation whereas once they were either considered weird, uninteresting, or maybe even bad. i suppose the most obvious case of this would be XIII. the same thing happened to Sonic Unleashed, and Sonic Adventure, and is actually happening to Sonic '06. the thing about XIII is that the amount of hate and contempt it got at release was way above what it deserved while nowadays the majority of the fanbase think it's actually a great game (or at least have softened up about it). i'm writing this with the presumption that you already know what was complained about (i write my reviews for the kind of nerd i am) so i won't waste time with that. instead, i'll have to explain wh...

  tonight i found out that loss is relative. when my uncle died, everyone around me cried and the mood was dense, but all i could think about were my own insecurities. i wasn't close to him, but i knew him all my life. i let out a couple of tears at his funeral but that was about it. i don't think about him. it didn't affect me. it's strange to me, but also natural, that tonight i feel grief for someone i never knew. i was a huge fan of daniel johnston as a 13 year old, when he died, i felt sad. when tohru okada died, i felt shaken. when sakamoto and takahashi died, i felt sorry. when i found out sayuri died, my brain refused to believe it. i went on to do other things, had a meal, talked to my friend, while that information was waiting for me to pick it up from the ground. when i did, i looked into it, and i'm confident in saying that a part of me died. i'm not the biggest fan of sayuri you'll meet, i didn't even know much about her to begin with, but ...