Like I said before, I get it, but you're always going to have people like that with or without the gaming journalism. Let them talk all they want. When I said let the people decide for themselves I meant just regular gamers, casual or hardcore, in general.
That is all that matters
This is another trap, one that's extremely rampant with people looking back on history but who also have a shallow knowledge of history, this idea that ideas and concepts can't occur independent of each other
TheMysteriousGX postulated that given the relatively close release dates, it was simply because the writers were in a similar cultural morass and likely with similar life experiences they just came to similar places with a different point of view.
I saw a fun counter argument to that basically saying that a bunch of Victorian era snobs couldn't stand that England's greatest playwright wasn't one of the honorable noble class, which tracks with a lot of their other biases.
You should give it another go. I too fell off of it for like a year but then I went back to it and fully completed the game. I dunno why I fell of but I think it might have been a feeling of being overwhelmed by all the stuff going on and with a restart I felt more comfortable with what was going on.
People have been arguing that Shakespeare didn't write his own plays for nearly 200 years now. Who was the author of the book you read arguing for?
The lived experience of Richard III was quite similar in some respects with the events of the play Richard III. Does this mean Richard III wrote it???
Mark Anderson, Shakespeare By Another Name, but there was also a weird example in Elizabeth Winkler doing a familiar "I'm just asking questions" schtick with, Shakespeare Was A Woman and Other Heraseys.
Because the DS is backwards compatible. They later phased that out halfway into the console's life cycle.
More than you think; especially early on.
I know that, but the boxes are for DS games, why would you put a GBA game in it? Like, say you have the box for Disgaea DS, what purpose is there to putting Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga in that box?
In case those are two games you are focusing on playing at the moment. Not that hard to figure out. It was nice when Nintendo did something like that, and I am not going to fault them for it. That is customer service right there. Plus, plenty of people were still playing GBA when the DS launched and was in its second year. You can't figure that out, then we have nothing left to discuss.
I once bought a bunch of shovelware DS games at like 5 for €3 at a clearance sale, then just threw out the carts and covers, and printed new covers. Then used those boxes for my GB/GBC/GBA games since none of them had a box, since I'm not fond of loose carts and like opening the closet to a neat row of games.
Especially early in the console's life cycle, there were a number of DS games that had additional functionality if you put a related GBA game in the console's GBA slot. To give two examples that I can recall:
Well I guess that makes some sense. I guess it seems weird to me even keeping DS games in their game box, let alone GBA games because it's a portable system so why would you want to lug around a bunch of big boxes. Right away when I got it bought one of those game cases that held 4 DS games in a space about the size of a GBA cart.
I think as long as you dump points into INT, you should be more or less fine. The game does have lots of old school obtusiveness to it, though, that's true.
It's the greatest western jrpg for a reason
Okay, i have to respond: O Brother, Where Art Thou? wasn't inspired by The Oddysey, it's straight up retelling of it. Coens weren't even trying to be subtle with stuff like the sirens.
Generally whre you get your backside kicked is the Outlands and then Pillar of Skulls. Where infinitely respawning devils will continously attack you. The only areas where there are random encounters and completely unavoidable. The latter particularly can take away your main tank that can taunt things. Leaving anything other then a beefy fighter Nameless One pretty open to just getting gibbed and instantaneously getting returned to your revival point.
A retelling with completely different plot, characters, and setting.
https://www.darkhorizons.com/coen-brothers-for-o-brother-where-art-thou/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Brother,_Where_Art_Thou?#Production
