Jake Kazdal Illustrates The Unbearable Smugness Of Western Game Developers In One Interview

http://www.siliconera.com/2012/03/02/interview-modernizing-turn-based-strategy-with-skulls-of-the-shogun/


I mean, they really don’t get made as much anymore. It’s been relegated to sort of a niche audience on like [Nintendo] DS. There’s a lot of like, the Atlus titles, and kind of a lot of the turn-based strategy stuff. It’s really sort of the handheld, Japanese-centric [games]… you know, they’re kind of holding on to a lot of the old things but they’re also holding onto too many of the old ways, I think. They’re not…upgrading anything. They’re not changing anything. It’s the same old thing, over and over again.

Just an incredible statement that Western game developers and "journalists" love repeating over and over again. It's a lie. Projection, in fact. Is every Medal Of Honor 16: Call Of Duty 44: Armored Marine 78 the same old thing, over and over again? Yep. Every GTA? Yep. Every fucking identical Bioware "RPG"? Yep.

Yet if they repeat these despicable lies enough times, regardless of their transparently false nature, Western gamers are all too eager to gobble them up. It isn't surprising, as most of them are racists to begin with, already looking to put down Japanese people or culture in the first place.

So I felt stripping away all the non-essentials to the barebones – what do I need to do? I need to grab this guy, move over here, hit that guy. Why does that need to take several sub-menus and all that stuff? I wanted to make an action game version of a strategy game, where it’s just pick the guy up [and] do what you want to do. No questions asked.

Translation: action! action! action! accessibility! no time for any deep thinking or stupid menus! we wants to kill stuff and shit lolz.

Seriously, what is with Western developers catering to a mass audience of ADHD fuckwits with the attention span of fleas? Fuck that.

Xenoblade is NOT "the best JRPG in ages"

The biased western game media is propagating this lie in order to pretend to be unbiased while trashing all other JRPGs. God almighty strike them down if it inspires more Japanese developers to make soulless MMORPG wannabes. About the only thing Xenoblade has going for it is the incredible OST. The MMO battles are unforgivable.

Let's see...

Devil Survivor is better. Strange Journey is better. Persona 4 is better. Tales of Vesperia is better. Tales of Graces is better. Eternal Sonata is better. Valkyria Chronicles is better. Lost Odyssey is better. Even Atelier Rorona and Totori are better.

Essentially, this is yet another psyop hatchet job on the Japanese video game industry by the western media. Xenoblade is Ahmed Chalabi.

Random Song Ranking Time: "Kouya ni Okeru Bloodthirsty Butchers" by Bloodthirsty Butchers

I actually think this album is pretty overrated in the Butchers' ouvre, and I believe this is where they started their downward spiral. Don't get me wrong, I like it. But the cheery, poppy nature of this album would set the stage for the hollowness of Birdy and Banging the Drum.

Ironically, the Butcher's most overrated album contains their most underrated song: Kage wo Shitaite. Possibly my very favorite Butchers track, in fact. The top five are all quite good here, but the rest is mediocre at best.

1. Kage wo Shitaite
2. Seraba Sekai Kunshu
3. Jigoku no Rocker
4. Goblin
5. Houi
6. Lucky Man
7. Kanashimi wo Buttobase!
8. Dorama
9. Real-Melodic
10. Acacia

Toddle: The Shimmer - First Impressions

The shimmer is a great album, and absolutely toddle's best yet. I do have a couple of minor complaints, though. Ai Kobayashi sings a lot more on this album, and I'm not too fond of her vocals. Also, it seems that all the best song are at beginning and end portions of the album (except the 5th song, Chase It), while the middle portion drags just a tad. There really isn't a bad song, but there are several "not that great" ones in a row (6, 7, 8, 9). Again, though, minor flaws on a fantastic album.

And the Thorn PV is pretty funny and cutesy. Reminds me of the butchers' last two videos somehow.

By the way, note that this is purely based on my first time hearing the shimmer. I'm subject to changing my mind on repeated listenings.

Random Song Ranking Time: "Kocorono" by Bloodthirsty Butchers

Quite difficult to rank, considering almost every song on this near-perfect album is excellent, the only exceptions being the mediocre duo of November and September.

Kocorono

1. February
2. July
3. January
4. August
5. December
6. June
7. March
8. October
9. April
10. May
11. November
12. September

Random Song Ranking Time: Toddle Edition

Since toddle's 3rd album is about to be released, I'll rank their first two...

I Dedicate D Chord

1. Hesitate To See
2. A Sight
3. Oyster
4. World Wide Waddle
5. I Dedicate D Chord
6. Bakadana
7. So Long
8. Mur Mur
9. Wanderlust
10. Scene of A Girl

Dawn Praise The World

1. Recollection
2. Colonnade
3. Step With The Gloom
4. Sack Dress
5. Ode To Joy
6. Aerial Things
7. Calligram
8. Dawn Praise The World
9. Wind Chimes
10. Gulp It Down
11. In A Balloon

East End Land

"Forgive my ignorance - but how is Japan and other Asian countries being hated, destroyed and demonized?

(aside from the recent earthquakes/nuclear tragedy in Japan)"

I believe there is an orchestrated effort to do these things by Western powers through both information and actual warfare. I will not go into this in any more detail right now because I've already made enough long, rambling rants about this in my other blog. Suffice to say, great fondness for Japan entered my heart in the summer of 2002, and will never leave.

I don't expect to find any empathy for my position on this from anyone, just as with my other positions. That's fine. I will march on with them nevertheless, no matter the strife it causes me.

Short (well, not really) version, just read this:


http://notevenhuman.blogspot.com/2010/04/moral-isolationist-i-am-not.html