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yukieThis is a rant! It's not entirely serious. Though, it is a little bit serious. I've just seen a lot of ignorant blathering on and on and on about Ayami Kojima's work, and most of it from (a) self-proclaimed Castlevania purists who claim Kojima ruined the games wah wah wah (ignoring the fact that their precious booboo Igarashi is the one who okays and directs her character designs)...and were not even CONCEIVED before Dawn of Sorrow was released, never mind wearing diapers, and who claim to be hardXxXcoreXxX when they cannot even manage the first level of Super Castlevania IV sans savestates, and (b) that particular subtype of tryhard female fan who thinks misogyny and homophobia are a surefire way to look cool and avoid the inevitable shitstorm that comes of disagreeing with insecure dudebrahs (fat chance lol).
The common threads in the "arguments" made by these parties are Orientalist bullshitfuckery, homophobic/gender-essentialist bullshitfuckery, and a certain purposeful obtuseness and utter refusal to accept that fancy-looking men WERE a romantic/aesthetic ideal in Western history.
Have you nincompoops never seen how Louis XIV dressed seriously--
*COUGH*
Anyhow. To the lager-lout types in the cheapie-seats, ye whom I'm complaining like fuck about--google you the Pre-Raphaelite art movement. Do eeeeet. DOOOO EEEEEET. NAO.
Got it? GOOD. ALLEZ LOOKENS-PEEPERS. THIS ART MOVEMENT
RIGHT HERE
THE PRE-RAPHAELITE MOVEMENT
FEATURES A WHOLE HELL OF A LOT OF SIMILAR THEMATIC MATERIAL AND ART STYLISTIC QUIRKS AND ET CETERA, AND A LOT OF FANCY MEN AND WOMEN.
Google Symbolism too and Romaticism. Look at those manz in ur base.
Notice anything?
BOY HOWDY, WHO'DA THUNK THAT LIEFELDIAN BEEFCAKE WASN'T ALWAYS THE IDEALIZED LOOK FOR A MAN!
so now that you know this you can shut the hell up with your Orientalist twaddle about ~girly mans~ and how there's no precedent for such in Western media/how everyone is sick of it except for stupid bitch fangirls/it's soooo gaaaaaaay/etc.
Speak for yourself, you purposefully-obtuse blithering buffoon. You're a know-nothing gender-essentialist ignorant twank. Piss off and don't talk to me again until you're brave enough to stick more than one miserable toe into the Pierian spring, assmunch.
I don't expect people to be art-smarts champions extraordinaire or anything--but i do expect people to do bloody basic homework before they open their fat yaps and start making absolute statements about things they know jack about.
If Kojima's art or Pre-Raphaelite art isn't to your taste, fine. Similarly, I don't like bleu cheese--but I don't make backhanded snivelling little wanky comments about people who like things what aren't to my taste. Thus, y'all can shut your noise-flaps about how ~EVERYONE HATES THIS THING BECAUSE I SAY SO~. Sorry2say, but you're not the arbiter of good taste, and if you try to put on airs and act like you're ever so very worldly and ever so much better n' smarter n' cooler than the plebes? I will beat you at your own game and bludgeon you with the artbitch stick until you learn manners. NO ONE BEATS A FUCKING ARTSY FOR PRETENTIOUS LOQUACITY, BETCH. XD
it's fine if you don't like a thing but the minute I start hearing "BUT EVERYONE HATES IT" or "IT'S STUPID WAH NO ONE IN THE WEST LIKES IT" or references to sexual orientation, I start rolling my eyes so hard I can see my brain. Like what you like, dislike what you don't, but unless something someone else likes and you do not has issues multifarious and is problematic as balls, just--naff off. Your opinion about Kojima's artwork is not the be-all and end-all of cool. I like her work, but you don't see me insulting people who don't. Contariwise I fucking dislike Jackson Pollock greatly, but I'm not going to bite people who think he's the bee's knees.
I only bite and insult flatulent snotty people who think that their personal tastes and experiences are universal and the One right Way, and who think that being asses makes them kewliez. XP
The common threads in the "arguments" made by these parties are Orientalist bullshitfuckery, homophobic/gender-essentialist bullshitfuckery, and a certain purposeful obtuseness and utter refusal to accept that fancy-looking men WERE a romantic/aesthetic ideal in Western history.
Have you nincompoops never seen how Louis XIV dressed seriously--
*COUGH*
Anyhow. To the lager-lout types in the cheapie-seats, ye whom I'm complaining like fuck about--google you the Pre-Raphaelite art movement. Do eeeeet. DOOOO EEEEEET. NAO.
Got it? GOOD. ALLEZ LOOKENS-PEEPERS. THIS ART MOVEMENT
RIGHT HERE
THE PRE-RAPHAELITE MOVEMENT
FEATURES A WHOLE HELL OF A LOT OF SIMILAR THEMATIC MATERIAL AND ART STYLISTIC QUIRKS AND ET CETERA, AND A LOT OF FANCY MEN AND WOMEN.
Google Symbolism too and Romaticism. Look at those manz in ur base.
Notice anything?
BOY HOWDY, WHO'DA THUNK THAT LIEFELDIAN BEEFCAKE WASN'T ALWAYS THE IDEALIZED LOOK FOR A MAN!
so now that you know this you can shut the hell up with your Orientalist twaddle about ~girly mans~ and how there's no precedent for such in Western media/how everyone is sick of it except for stupid bitch fangirls/it's soooo gaaaaaaay/etc.
Speak for yourself, you purposefully-obtuse blithering buffoon. You're a know-nothing gender-essentialist ignorant twank. Piss off and don't talk to me again until you're brave enough to stick more than one miserable toe into the Pierian spring, assmunch.
I don't expect people to be art-smarts champions extraordinaire or anything--but i do expect people to do bloody basic homework before they open their fat yaps and start making absolute statements about things they know jack about.
If Kojima's art or Pre-Raphaelite art isn't to your taste, fine. Similarly, I don't like bleu cheese--but I don't make backhanded snivelling little wanky comments about people who like things what aren't to my taste. Thus, y'all can shut your noise-flaps about how ~EVERYONE HATES THIS THING BECAUSE I SAY SO~. Sorry2say, but you're not the arbiter of good taste, and if you try to put on airs and act like you're ever so very worldly and ever so much better n' smarter n' cooler than the plebes? I will beat you at your own game and bludgeon you with the artbitch stick until you learn manners. NO ONE BEATS A FUCKING ARTSY FOR PRETENTIOUS LOQUACITY, BETCH. XD
it's fine if you don't like a thing but the minute I start hearing "BUT EVERYONE HATES IT" or "IT'S STUPID WAH NO ONE IN THE WEST LIKES IT" or references to sexual orientation, I start rolling my eyes so hard I can see my brain. Like what you like, dislike what you don't, but unless something someone else likes and you do not has issues multifarious and is problematic as balls, just--naff off. Your opinion about Kojima's artwork is not the be-all and end-all of cool. I like her work, but you don't see me insulting people who don't. Contariwise I fucking dislike Jackson Pollock greatly, but I'm not going to bite people who think he's the bee's knees.
I only bite and insult flatulent snotty people who think that their personal tastes and experiences are universal and the One right Way, and who think that being asses makes them kewliez. XP
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Date: 2013-07-17 03:22 pm (UTC)Symphony of the Night, Dracula X, and the Gameboy Advance games all had little details tucked in the background. Heck, Harmony of Dissonance was trying as hard as possible to be Symphony of the Night. (And, in my opinion, suffered for the comparison since it wasn't and couldn't be a copy of that game.) Your character would often have a lot of animations, which kind of adds to the ability to have more fluid cut scenes and allows the player to either be ridiculous or pose dramatically. (Ignoring, oh, Juste's fervent fist shaking.)
A lot of indie metroidvania games don't do complex backgrounds. That leads to tedium, forgetting where something is / where you are, and it can make the exploration feel less rewarding. If the reward in the game is being able to get to a new area, the new area should, hopefully, feel new. A lot of indie metroidvania games have a generic pixel art character with minimal animations. At a certain point, someone will notice you can't sit pointlessly in a chair, pose on the edge of ledges, or crouch dramatically. Does it end the world? No, but the little animations do add flavor to a character, and cuts down on windows of text while your character does his idle animation bob.
A lot of indie metroidvania games don't have a strong artistic style to the art / characters. Which means, for example, that other than oh Cave Story, I couldn't instantly tell character art from oh - Rogue Legacy or Unepic as a metroidvania style game, or tell you who made the games. You have an instant brand recognition when you see Castlevania's art.
(And in my opinion, the sheer expensive time that went into the art is half the appeal. Even if I titter at Isaac's pants and find the symbolism to be heavy handed, there's something about just being willing to make art that doesn't look like a cheap cartoon?)
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Date: 2013-07-20 06:11 am (UTC)Part of the branding of Castlevania is in the artwork and the people who get all bumfussy about Kojima's work need to sit down. The first CV covers were pretty generic fantasytype art BUT they did lend a look to the series and Kojima has a similarly painterly quality to her stuff. Castlevania is gothtastic fantasy overwrought--yes XD
And Kojima's art makes SO MUCH SENSE in relation to--okay, the time period in which symbolism and the Pre-Raphaelites and Gothic novels and such were exploding all over the place. Dracula is one such novel so ta-da. But people just want to ignore this in favour of whining about how Kojima's guys can be androgynous.
When people whine too much I tell them to go google Tori Maia's work or Araki Hirohiko's and then come cryin to me about androgynous guys XD