/vr/ - Retro Games

>>8712969
I like Vivian a lot, my problem is with how the internet has memed bullshit into being canon with totally misreading the Japanese script to the point where they make stuff up about her being trans that isn't there in the text. I mean to begin with, Old Bitch Sister Ghost and Goombella are far from reliable narrators so the extent to how much this is pushed by the fanbase annoys me.
Believe me if I thought they actually meant for Vivian to be trans I would probably like her more

future is overrated as fuck by the hidden gem crowd and people who go in wanting to like it, people never fucking talk about all the annoying or tedious shit and just gloss over all of the flaws like they don't exist. it's fucking bizarre. it's the kind of thing that happens with games like earthbound where the fanbase around the game hasn't even fucking played it they just like how it looks to approve of a "cool underappreciated video game"
it's a good game at the end of the day though. just has some pretty big problems, and they are:
>massive focken areas and the map hardly helps, most areas have very similar visuals no matter where you are in that area and they repeat/mirror parts of levels more than you'd expect, making it not uncommon to get turned around or confused in the larger areas
>weird interconnected levels thing that mostly amounts to having to basically play through half of a level 3D platforming and grinding to just get to the next place you're supposed to be next
>no cops so instead the levels are 3D platformer bing bing wahoo on skates with rails thrown in and the playtime has to be stretched out by sometimes making that difficult or annoying instead of focusing on good level design that's focused around being a playground for the player to style on the police
>there are very few characters in future that actually look better than their equivalent from the original jsr. the original jsr's more sunny and cartoony style was better in my opinion than future which is dark and tries too hard to be cool with weird shounen character designs
>not that important but the story is just a bunch of random shit and it's somehow dumber than the original game which had an excuse plot to begin with
>soundtrack is overall as good as the original's if not better but does have noticably more songs i just plain didn't like than the original for me