...that ruined the game for me, it was the actual drawing style used for Link. He just looked silly, infantile, and hopeless, not like a cartoon version of the Link we've seen in games past (also look at the drawings in the instruction manuals). I doubt that many would argue that XIII's cel-shading was inferior to more realistic graphics, but if the characters all looked as stupid as Link, the game would have not been as good.
Also, the move from a traditional overworld to that awful ocean, and the attendant struggle with the wind and sailboat, that's what really did the game in for me.
See my post for a great site describing the use of this weapon on more interesting specimens.
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An Army testing lab in Natick, MA used an enormous array of mirrors to simulate the thermal flash pulse of a thermonuclear detonation, for the purpose of testing a sunscreen that the labs were developing for GIs in a nuclear battlefield. Best part is, they tested using pigs! Sound like some loony conspiracy to you?
Check it out.
It's real-world stuff like this that keeps sci-fi writers going.
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...that ruined the game for me, it was the actual drawing style used for Link. He just looked silly, infantile, and hopeless, not like a cartoon version of the Link we've seen in games past (also look at the drawings in the instruction manuals). I doubt that many would argue that XIII's cel-shading was inferior to more realistic graphics, but if the characters all looked as stupid as Link, the game would have not been as good. Also, the move from a traditional overworld to that awful ocean, and the attendant struggle with the wind and sailboat, that's what really did the game in for me.
See my post for a great site describing the use of this weapon on more interesting specimens.
An Army testing lab in Natick, MA used an enormous array of mirrors to simulate the thermal flash pulse of a thermonuclear detonation, for the purpose of testing a sunscreen that the labs were developing for GIs in a nuclear battlefield. Best part is, they tested using pigs! Sound like some loony conspiracy to you?
Check it out.
It's real-world stuff like this that keeps sci-fi writers going.