Man, it's so cool too see this kind of support. You guys rock. Looking forward to exploring the entries!
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A version of Doom was released for the Super Nintendo. This project emulates pretty much precisely the limits of what the SNES was capable of rendering as pseudo-3d graphics.
I don't know what PSX games you've seen, but even the worst of its first generation of games looked substantially more advanced than this.
Having no way of knowing it was sanctioned also means having no way of knowing it wasn't. Which also isn't true, because, you know, you could've used this amazing secret technique known as "asking." It's a far better approach than being a cop.
I know you're trying to apologize, but it doesn't seem like you understand that jumping to accusations was the problem, not you simply being factually wrong.
And that's forgetting the fact that it's very obviously a fan game.
Just a friendly bit of advice: Don't speak authoritatively on historical matters you lack the intellectual courage to actually learn about.
Trans people are not some modern invention or whatever transphobic garbage you're suggesting here. Hiro's story seems to take place in pre-nazi Germany, which was in fact at the cutting edge of sexual research and queer rights advocacy from foundations such as the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft in Berlin (the very institute whose books were the first the Nazis gathered for book burnings, fyi)
Hiro's identity isn't forced, it fits well with the story's period AND he is precious and I would kill anyone who would try to harm him.
Don't wanna pick favourites because there isn't a single bad song in the soundtrack, but Personal Elegy with the Hinterlands as a backdrop works so well. There's something about its mix of electric guitars and steel pedals that makes a road trip through the south feel right.
...I also still like The Last Ones even though Joe Exotic fucked it
To get that first achievement, you have to do at least seven of the following things throughout the Hinterlands Ch 3:
- Go to the tailor, get Storm a fully-tailored set of clothes, and give him P's jacket
- Visit Storm's home
- Visit P's home
- Go to the library and browse the fiction section with Storm
- Go to the plaza and hang out with Storm
- Visit the second church
- Go to the pond and stay with Storm
- Visit the diner at the archaelogical site
As for the other two, it all really depends on how important completionism is to you :)
I'm definitely not going to be getting those.
It's hard to say whether there's metaphorical, allegorical or even literal meaning to the vultures from what we know so far, Nikos obviously held some familiarity with the sighting, but overall vultures aren't particularly common in Greek myth, save for two particular figures: Ares and Tityos.
The vulture is Ares' patron animal, as they would always be found feasting on the corpses of fallen soldiers after a war. Given what Ares is about and the kind of bloodthirsty psychopath he is in literally every interpretation, I'd say it's probably unlikely the vultures are to do with him? Plus he was unsympathetic to Asterion's plight, so... yeah.
Tityos was a giant who faced the wrath of the Olympians in pretty much exactly the same way as Prometheus did, except in Tityos' case his organs were to be feasted on for eternity by--explicitly--vultures. At face value, the story doesn't seem to bear much connection to MH. BUT...
Tityos was the father of Europa... And therefore King Minos' grandfather... And therefore... Asterion's great foster grandfather AND Nikos' distant great uncle.
So there's that connection, but it's still I think a somewhat distant one. It's kind of a funny coincidence, though!
Edit: There are actually multiple Europas in Greek myth, only one of whom was sired by Tityos. Whether or not they are unique individuals or varieties of one amalgamated figure is really anyone's guess. Greek myth be weird like that.
I'm thinking their presence was more about the appearance of real, untainted life above the corrupted desolation of the valley. Nikos' moment of familiarity felt more like a reminder of life outside the valley, since he's had to live in it alone for the whole length of the story.
That's just how I interpreted it, anyway :)