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Oct. 6th, 2014 05:56 amUncle Robby and Cousin Adam came back, and Aunt Allison, Uncle Blas, Cousin Steven, and Steven's girlfriend Jordan also came over for our early Christmas get-together. Ate dinner and dessert together, exchanged gifts, had pictures taken, and so on before everyone left. (Grandma might still be here, unless she left after I had gone to bed.)
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As long as you continue to make this more serious than silly, I'm calling shenanigans on this.
-Jake, during our last exchange regarding Starbound's place on that sliding scale. Ever since then, I've decided to just keep things simple regarding Starbound and just stick with what comes naturally to me. I've been figuring that if I ever do look into a game,I might allow anyone interested in working on the game to make it more Earthbound-like if they so wish to, while deciding where to draw lines. Given how canonically reasonable the Lucky Star franchise is in general (w/ certain exceptions) and how really far out the Earthbound trilogy gets, I found myself questioning such an idea. To settle that, I recently wrote something about it in my notebook the other day, to show Brian when he's home.
Before the following cut, let me just explain (and I brought this up with Brian as well) why I tend to perceive Earthbound's humor as somewhat "tame", despite all evidence to the contrary. First of all, he did say that the reason I can tolerate something like the Earthbound trilogy but not Mon Colle Knights, UFO Ultramaiden Valkyrie, or Fairy Tail, is because in a game, you're playing to win a challenge, so you just roll with whatever it throws at you, whereas with an anime, you just want to be entertained, so you have nothing to gain by watching anything you deem cringeworthy. However, there is also the fact that, unlike in Mother 3, both Earthbound and Earthbound Zero are minimally animated, with most of what goes on being described rather than shown. That waters things down somewhat. And finally, of course, the plot itself does take itself somewhat seriously, such as after you defeat Ness's Nightmare and read about what's going on at that point. Brian and I both also agree on all three points regarding Super Mario RPG, which, while the humor is still obvious enough, feels somewhat more "reasonable" than most other installments in the Mario franchise. (Ditto with Makeruna! Makendou Z, compared to its three prequels, if you ask me.)
That said, while I probably wouldn't want Starbound/Day of the Beehive to go the whole way to resemble Earthbound, I did make a list of things I liked about the EB trilogy (particularly the first two games), and there are some forms of humor I'd likely more than welcome. First list first:
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Now, about what I'd be willing to incorporate as far as humor goes, either during the fanfic's run or if I ever actually do look into making the game adaptation:
( Read more... )
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As long as you continue to make this more serious than silly, I'm calling shenanigans on this.
-Jake, during our last exchange regarding Starbound's place on that sliding scale. Ever since then, I've decided to just keep things simple regarding Starbound and just stick with what comes naturally to me. I've been figuring that if I ever do look into a game,I might allow anyone interested in working on the game to make it more Earthbound-like if they so wish to, while deciding where to draw lines. Given how canonically reasonable the Lucky Star franchise is in general (w/ certain exceptions) and how really far out the Earthbound trilogy gets, I found myself questioning such an idea. To settle that, I recently wrote something about it in my notebook the other day, to show Brian when he's home.
Before the following cut, let me just explain (and I brought this up with Brian as well) why I tend to perceive Earthbound's humor as somewhat "tame", despite all evidence to the contrary. First of all, he did say that the reason I can tolerate something like the Earthbound trilogy but not Mon Colle Knights, UFO Ultramaiden Valkyrie, or Fairy Tail, is because in a game, you're playing to win a challenge, so you just roll with whatever it throws at you, whereas with an anime, you just want to be entertained, so you have nothing to gain by watching anything you deem cringeworthy. However, there is also the fact that, unlike in Mother 3, both Earthbound and Earthbound Zero are minimally animated, with most of what goes on being described rather than shown. That waters things down somewhat. And finally, of course, the plot itself does take itself somewhat seriously, such as after you defeat Ness's Nightmare and read about what's going on at that point. Brian and I both also agree on all three points regarding Super Mario RPG, which, while the humor is still obvious enough, feels somewhat more "reasonable" than most other installments in the Mario franchise. (Ditto with Makeruna! Makendou Z, compared to its three prequels, if you ask me.)
That said, while I probably wouldn't want Starbound/Day of the Beehive to go the whole way to resemble Earthbound, I did make a list of things I liked about the EB trilogy (particularly the first two games), and there are some forms of humor I'd likely more than welcome. First list first:
( Read more... )
Now, about what I'd be willing to incorporate as far as humor goes, either during the fanfic's run or if I ever actually do look into making the game adaptation:
( Read more... )