When I was young and had a super nintendo I loved playing Super Mario RPG.
I’m playing the remake and I’m at the scene after defeating Valentina. Mallow goes into the castle and Mario was left standing outside.
Back then I didn’t know why Mario pulled out an umbrella and it rained. I just realised after 20 years of playing the original that Mario knew it was going to rain because whenever Mallow cries it rains; Mario knew that Mallow would get all emotional when meeting his parents for the first time.
Blew my mind.
Two playthroughs ago, I realized that the entire honeybee brothel sequence in original ff7 used a combination of writing/camera work/blocking/framing/mini games to foreshadow that Cloud is a big fat fraud and a scared little boy (imo he’s a satire of gamers). The level of sophistication in that games design is just nuts.
I wasn’t sure what happened at the Bee until I learned that bubby is slang for a homosexual’s husband.
It makes me sad how Cloud’s character growth (especially after late in the game when you go through his memories as Tifa) is sorta thrown out in his other appearances as he often is reduced back to the brooding tough guy attitude he fakes at the start of the game.
Diablo in Diablo games can never be killed permanently
Well yeah. It would really kill the replay factor.
Blizzard did a fine job of doing that already in D4
When I first played Diablo 3 I was shocked when Diablo was summoned. My friend I was playing with who played thousands of hours on D2 just chuckled and said “well the game is called Diablo”
Which was one of many reasons I was sad about D4. First Diablo game without Diablo 😞
Neither can the butcher apparently.
None of the demons or angels can. That’s kinda the whole deal with the “eternal war”
Well that’s certainly a very handy piece of lore if you happen to be a videogame company that just, fucking loves money.
More or less the entirety of Sanitarium. I had to play it a second time to know that it was talking about the mental recovery of the main character. Before that, to me it was just someone travelling between strange worlds.
The scene in Silent Hill 2 where you’re in a room with Angela and it’s basically a construct of the sexual trauma she endured from her brother and father.
When I first played SH2, I kinda innocently didn’t realize all the huge implications in front of your face.
The boss character (aptly named “Abstract Daddy”) is quite literally designed to look like a huge hulking man, on a bed, underneath bed sheets, doing…something.
The worst was realizing that the fleshy pistons pumping in and out in the room were meant to be seen as “foreign objects” entering…Nah, I’ll stop there.
Abstract Daddy is the most blatant. But there is a lot of psychosexual implications in SH2. That early scene with Pyramid Head. All the Nurse enemies can be interpreted as James fantasizing about nurses while his wife was in the hospital. Maria appearing as a ‘sexy’ version of Mary to tempt him, etc.
Yeesh.
It didn’t take long (pmuch immediately), but I giggled like a kid once I realized that the subtitle for the first South Park RPG sounds just like Fractured Butthole.
That’s the second, and only if you only count the modern games. First modern game was The Stick of Truth, first game ever was South Park: The Game on the N64 iirc.
They wanted to call it The Butthole of Time, but the ESRB or something wouldn’t let them put “butthole” in the title.
Not to be that guy, but it was the second RPG, not the first! First is Stick of Truth.
I kept wikipedia and several historical record sites open playing Like a Dragon Ishin. They had fun with the historical fiction and I got more out of understanding the history simultaneous to the fictional plot.
Ishin was a great ride from start to finish. I loved reading some of the real accounts. Like Oryō was mostly known for running through the Inn half naked to warn Ryōma of assassins.
The end of Warcraft 3 expansion campaign is called “A Symphony of Frost and Flame”. Everyone is fighting to reach a “Throne” first. A Game of Thrones. A Song of Ice and Fire…
Fuck me.
Whiskey Hotel in Modern Warfare 2. When I was a child, I thought we were advancing our way through Russian forces into literal a hotel named Whiskey Hotel. As a young adult, playing the same mission again, I realised Whiskey Hotel is actually NATO phonetic alphabet for White House. I was dumbfounded.
Definitely Ocarina of time and how much it slaps on Link’s face the idea of being a “man” or “an adult” back when he is a kid, that was toxic af and something that sadly happens to many kids (myself included), and it plays out perfectly when you realize he just lost all the years of his childhood transitioning to becoming a true adult. Having replayed and finished OoT for the first time as an adult, I can look at it and say that shit hit way too close to home
Halo 2:
“But these are MY elites. There lives matter to me. YOURS does not.”
“That makes two of us”.
At first, I thought Arbiter meant “your life doesn’t matter to me, either”. But he’s really saying “MY OWN LIFE doesn’t matter to me, either.”
Halo in general has a lot of scenes and themes that didn’t really click for me until fairly recently. 2 and 3 in particular have no business having such good writing.
I am bread.
I am intrigued but not close to understanding what I’m supposed to do.
It didn’t take years, but the amount of research I had to do to understand Cradle beats anything from any other game, including crafting game wikis.
Like if you don’t know two specific stories about the Buddha, none of the rest of it makes sense.
I think I’m a real idiot for this but my first playthrough of The Last of Us Part II I didn’t realize that Lev was trans. I just thought he shaved his head before he was a man, because he was like 12 or something and you’re not a man at that age. I somehow missed that, and that he was supposed to be an elder’s wife which maybe I missed or just forgot but should have been a pretty clear sign. I didn’t know why everyone was all pissed off about the “woke trans agenda” people were saying was shoved down their throats. Who gives a shit that there’s a trans character? That’s definitely a relevant topic today so for people who played a series that previously dealt with homosexuality shouldn’t be surprised that they talked about being trans as well.
What the fuck, I completely missed that!!
I think its becuse it was only really the past five years when people started to think having any trans person meant “Pushing a agenda”, If it came out in 2014 or something I don’t think people would complain as much
People were upset about Borderlands:TPS shoving gay and girl power agenda down our throats in 2014.
Yes but it was much less wide spread on the internet, and typically it was from people who had no credibility or were already hated
Unfortunately, there are a lot of people that see a story focusing on anything other than straight white men as an “agenda.” It’s just a subtle form of bigotry.
Even if they’re not the focus. A trans person just existing in any media is “pushing an agenda”, it’s crazy. It’s the same with POC and any other non-straight person. A gay couple in a movie? AGENDA! A black woman playing a mermaid? AGENDA! The fact is, popular media has shunned and focused on straight white people for so long, any diversion (even if it’s based on reality) is a fucking agenda to these people.
I thought lev was just like a young monk 🤣
Ngl I was the same exact way. I heard people saying there was a trans character is the Last of Us Part 2 and I was confused thinking maybe it was just a character I somehow missed even tho it’s a linear game? And then I learned it was Lev and I genuinely completely missed that when I played it
There is a side mission in Final Fantasy 16 called Caulk and Bawl
Oooh M-Rated!
Goddammit, was Toji Fox involved in the localization!?
Gotta love Michael-Christopher Koji Fox, pun purveyor, meme maestro, and all around shitlord.
As someone who commented about Koji to Op’s comment.
I knew it!
Is it about bathroom remodeling?
Or that south park sausage stand
Dickin Baus
Kingdom Hearts 1.
After the intro on Destiny Island, a cutscene plays in Traverse Town where Goofy sees a star blink out.
It took me until recently to realize that the star was Destiny Island being consumed by darkness.