Posted on: 11/22/23 06:42AM
- There's so much to not like. Let's start with out-of-proportion body parts taken to an extreme. I'm not a fan of an ass the size of Jupiter, or twin suns for breasts. This is why I don't like heavily distorted view angles either, too similar in outcome.
- Intentionally uglified or altered character designs (looking at you, Western world.)
- Piercings and tatoos, or anything cyberpunk in character design.
- Ahegao. It ruins what could have been a good piece of art. Over-the-top expressions in general aren't my thing. A villain who starts cackling like a maniac while twisting his body in impossible ways is not creepy, imposing or whatever, it's just comical in a bad way.
- Look, it's an organized church in anime with a close-eyed priest acting all nice, using clearly defined iconography of only one specific religion while never any other. And look, an empire. Gee, I wonder who the bad guys are going to be.
In a similar vein, I'm done and tired with the inversion of good and evil. Yeah, I get it already, it's yet another demon character or overlord, so obviously this side will be the good guys. It's beyond predictable now. The coolness factor has long since ran its course, with all that's left now as deconstruction.
- "We're not actually blood related."
Give me my money back, you bunch of frauds.
- Style over substance. No, your plot didn't turn deep and thought-provoking simply because you pumped in a bunch of random esoteric nonsense, or funky visual styles such as an entire disco of switching color overlays. It's just a mess now.
- "Hi, I'm random character A, leaving the Enterprise with Captain Kirk and Spock. Want to see a picture of my wife and child? Oh no, I'm experiencing a case of sudden death! My only weakness!"
- That wonderful design choice when I do side quests and grinding for more levels or skills, only to come back to the same area I had trouble with before and find out the enemies leveled with me.
- Hummingbirds-on-crack physics in anime, increasingly in western media too.
- "Did you like the cute cover of that manga? Did you enjoy the first 3/4th of content with sugary-sweet sex? Good, now have some hard rape and NTR."
Fuck you too.
- And now to be controversial, I don't like branching stories as found in VN and games. Either there's a canon ending, and thus the choices don't really matter and are a waste of time. Or there is no canon ending and the story has the same problem as a multiverse, where nothing really has meaning because there's other possible outcomes that are equally valid.
"Aerith/Aeris died, how sad, but a powerful moment in the story. Truly a classic that will be remembered for decades!"
"No, she didn't, not in my play-through."
"Oh, okay." Shrug shoulders and move on to another game.
Some of this sounds familiar. Maybe from an older post with a similar topic. Can't remember, the hurdles of getting old.