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• Astropuyo Member RarePosts: 2,178

  February 2022

  IF games is where you go before you find out about illusion soft.
  
  
  Oh the innocent days of netunia MK2 skin manager... 2011 was such a pure year.
  
  
  
  Also anyone playing a IFgame or compileheart game for the hd sharp graphics are totally missing the point of the internets favorite anime semi softcore game company.
  
  It's supposed to be bootleg feeling. The dudes put like no effort into their engine and reuse the same one over and over again. We just buy the games because lets face it...no one else is making games about school girl console warriors who also happen to be very good at baking and also this is a baking game.

  
• cheyane Member LegendaryPosts: 9,404

  February 2022 edited February 2022

  One of favourite anime /manga way way back in the 90's was Fushigi Yuugi some really horrible things happen in it and much like Anne McCaffrey's handling of male characters who treat their so called love of their lives like crap I still enjoyed it. There were some fantastic characters Yuu Watase created.
  
  Idea factory made a game based on Fushigi Yuugi for PS2, more a visual novel rather than a combat oriented one.

  
  
• xonedl Member UncommonPosts: 25

  May 2022

  Played these two ages ago, don't remember all the details, but here's some differences between the first game;
  
  - the first game have a lot of unexpected story twist, really unexpected. The second game is a bit more straight forward but still have it's mysteries.
  - combat strategy was better in the first game, elemental & things on the field matters a lot more. Second game have far easier combat you don't need to think too much.
  - map environment is much better/varied in second game, although unfortunately there's technical problem why the visual appear blurry - disable bloom effect and the visual will be clear but become a lot darker.
  - second game is possibly more scarier, there's the Resident Evil scary feeling when Nemesis spawn and you need to try to not get caught (they are not killable).
• Scot Member LegendaryPosts: 24,429

  May 2022

  cheyane said:

  One of favourite anime /manga way way back in the 90's was Fushigi Yuugi some really horrible things happen in it and much like Anne McCaffrey's handling of male characters who treat their so called love of their lives like crap I still enjoyed it. There were some fantastic characters Yuu Watase created.
  
  Idea factory made a game based on Fushigi Yuugi for PS2, more a visual novel rather than a combat oriented one.

  Hold your Yuugi's! Anne McCaffrey who I have met was a great lady and though I was not keen on her dragon books, I was a fan of her Brainship and Crystal Singer books.
• cheyane Member LegendaryPosts: 9,404

  May 2022 edited May 2022

  Perhaps it is because she wrote those books in late 60's and on , bodice rippers were considered quite popular and even I read them when I was in school around 11 years old and over because I had friends with older sisters. Can you imagine a generation of girls growing up thinking that was sexy.
  
  I never liked them and when I read her Dragonflight books it never sat well with me and I honestly considered what happened close to rape.
  
  See this 
  
  https://discorodeo.wordpress.com/2013/12/30/dragonriders-of-pern-issues-sexual-politics/
  
  https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/h9fzm8/dragonriders_of_pern_and_sexuality/
  
  I did enjoy her other books but I dropped her dragonflight series.

  
  
• Scot Member LegendaryPosts: 24,429

  May 2022 edited May 2022

  cheyane said:

  Perhaps it is because she wrote those books in late 60's and on , bodice rippers were considered quite popular and even I read them when I was in school around 11 years old and over because I had friends with older sisters. Can you imagine a generation of girls growing up thinking that was sexy.
  
  I never liked them and when I read her Dragonflight books it never sat well with me and I honestly considered what happened close to rape.
  
  See this 
  
  https://discorodeo.wordpress.com/2013/12/30/dragonriders-of-pern-issues-sexual-politics/
  
  https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/h9fzm8/dragonriders_of_pern_and_sexuality/
  
  I did enjoy her other books but I dropped her dragonflight series.

  If we decided to examine the past with eyes of the present we will always find fault, I remember fans of Friends getting fed of with youngsters telling them it was politically incorrect when it came out on Netflix. Indeed I remember the TV Editor of the Radio Times talking about it she said something like "it was like our treasured memories had to be trashed just so they could moralize." Put enough years between a form of entertainment and today and somebody will find something to complain about it; possibly quite correctly, but they are by definition products of their time.
  
  The dragonriders series went on forever, I think it was the most teen oriented of her works, Brainship was somewhat more mature.
• cheyane Member LegendaryPosts: 9,404

  May 2022 edited May 2022

  Scot said:

  cheyane said:

  Perhaps it is because she wrote those books in late 60's and on , bodice rippers were considered quite popular and even I read them when I was in school around 11 years old and over because I had friends with older sisters. Can you imagine a generation of girls growing up thinking that was sexy.
  
  I never liked them and when I read her Dragonflight books it never sat well with me and I honestly considered what happened close to rape.
  
  See this 
  
  https://discorodeo.wordpress.com/2013/12/30/dragonriders-of-pern-issues-sexual-politics/
  
  https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/h9fzm8/dragonriders_of_pern_and_sexuality/
  
  I did enjoy her other books but I dropped her dragonflight series.

  If we decided to examine the past with eyes of the present we will always find fault, I remember fans of Friends getting fed of with youngsters telling them it was politically incorrect when it came out on Netflix. Indeed I remember the TV Editor of the Radio Times talking about it she said something like "it was like our treasured memories had to be trashed just so they could moralize." Put enough years between a form of entertainment and today and somebody will find something to complain about it; possibly quite correctly, but they are by definition products of their time.
  
  The dragonriders series went on forever, I think it was the most teen oriented of her works, Brainship was somewhat more mature.

  That is true of a lot of things but marketing these books to younger kids was a terrible mistake. Probably they never bothered to actually read them and went by their covers.
  
  What I was trying to say was even when I was reading them when they came out and I was a lot younger I was very uncomfortable with the contents so I don't think this is just the eyes of the new looking at the older works. What she wrote and the message it portrayed was really bad for younger girls reading them.

  

  
  
• Scot Member LegendaryPosts: 24,429

  May 2022

  cheyane said:

  Scot said:

  cheyane said:

  Perhaps it is because she wrote those books in late 60's and on , bodice rippers were considered quite popular and even I read them when I was in school around 11 years old and over because I had friends with older sisters. Can you imagine a generation of girls growing up thinking that was sexy.
  
  I never liked them and when I read her Dragonflight books it never sat well with me and I honestly considered what happened close to rape.
  
  See this 
  
  https://discorodeo.wordpress.com/2013/12/30/dragonriders-of-pern-issues-sexual-politics/
  
  https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/h9fzm8/dragonriders_of_pern_and_sexuality/
  
  I did enjoy her other books but I dropped her dragonflight series.

  If we decided to examine the past with eyes of the present we will always find fault, I remember fans of Friends getting fed of with youngsters telling them it was politically incorrect when it came out on Netflix. Indeed I remember the TV Editor of the Radio Times talking about it she said something like "it was like our treasured memories had to be trashed just so they could moralize." Put enough years between a form of entertainment and today and somebody will find something to complain about it; possibly quite correctly, but they are by definition products of their time.
  
  The dragonriders series went on forever, I think it was the most teen oriented of her works, Brainship was somewhat more mature.

  That is true of a lot of things but marketing these books to younger kids was a terrible mistake. Probably they never bothered to actually read them and went by their covers.
  
  What I was trying to say was even when I was reading them when they came out and I was a lot younger I was very uncomfortable with the contents so I don't think this is just the eyes of the new looking at the older works. What she wrote and the message it portrayed was really bad for younger girls reading them.

  Oh this was not in hindsight, I see now. Publishers do make changes to books as time goes by, but I have no idea if they have changed since you read them. What you are describing sounds way too much for an 11 year old, more like something out of 50 Shades. I did a quick search and preteen does not seem to be too young for the books, so they really need to update that.