Now now, that's a bit harsh, Gyrefalcon, this game had better characterisation and writing (not a single cringeworthy line of dialogue in my opinion) than the two Michael Bay movies combined, and I doubt the third will flip the scales in its favour. And it brought us a more than satisfying backdrop to the cartoon series (which especially in its earliest episodes made no sense at all). The story of War for Cybertron was in my opinion no more and no less deep and complex than it needed to be. And the characterisation was great, each character felt like how I remembered him, and well, it was delightful to hear them converse. No doubt fuelled by nostalgia but hey. (And frankly, I'd rather have a simpler story than an overtly convoluted mess of a plot that tries to sell itself as deep and profound when it is in fact, mostly convoluted and nonsensical, here's looking at you, Hideo Kojima)
Point being, in the end of the day it's a story about two factions of transforming robots who do not get along. I'm certain that you could try and inject a tale of bittersweet cross faction romance into a Transformers game, but this game wasn't meant to do that. It was intended to show us how the situation came to be that the Transformers had to leave earth and how the players got to be in their respective positions, and in that regard it delivered in style.
Of course, if miss Mayes doesn't like the game that's her good right, I certainly thought, while immensely fun it but it certainly was haunted by a number of bugs that really shouldn't have gotten through testing, such as characters getting stuck in one another or getting catapulted halfway across the map when you're a jet. But hey, she has her opinion, I have mine, sadly I lack the talent to make a song about it. Which brings me to:
Digikid said:
Sorry Becky but I could not understand a SINGLE word of this song and therefore have to agree with the others about this.
Were you using BROCCOLI??????
Yes, yes she was. And how is not understanding a single word a problem? I'm from Belgium myself but regardless my Winamp playlist has had songs in the three languages of my country, English, but also Japanese, Russian, Swedish, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Hebrew, Turkish, Hindi, Latin, Irish Gaelic, imaginary languages and I'm probably missing a few. And indeed, I don't understand most of those, but that doesn't matter, if they can carry across the feeling they wish to portray it was by all regards a good song in my book. Or if it's downright fun or catchy, and well, I can always look up translations of the lyrics online. And here you had the "translation" (as I'm sure this was a made up language used here) posted in the form of subtitles so not understanding it doesn't even come into the equation.
Granted, this was my first taste of miss Mayes her music, the allure of something Transformers related was too much to resist, but I wasn't disappointed, I had the feeling a good deal of it was very much tongue in cheek and doesn't need to be taken nearly as seriously as some of you are. And well, I'm never one to shy away from some experimental music as long as it sounds good. And this wasn't bad at all in my opinion, I've certainly heard far worse.
Long story short, chill people, if miss Mayes wants to experiment with her music, that's her good right, just like how it is her good right to dislike War for Cybertron (or secretly like its story at least, who knows) and put it in her song. All the same, I know these days people all too easily jump the gun and say an artist has jumped the shark or even say he or she is downright rubbish now, but please be more careful in your choice of words when you do it somewhere where the artist can read it. Like it or not, she did put several hours into making this and no one likes to see something they spent so long in brutalised in the manner some of you have been doing in this topic.