Hello everyone,
This is a quick little blog update to inform everyone that I am not dead and that various life things have made me too occupied to spend some time on the ModDB.
Also, since this is an update, I wanted to refer to something I have recently stumbled upon.
Long Gone Days - a "2D modern-day military RPG set in our current times"
Yes, this is a modern JRPG/VN/Action Shooter featuring the Polish Armed Forces equipment and uniforms. Now, this is generally something that I wouldn't have noticed but thanks to a message from a buddy of mine I managed to take a look at it.
Now, I must say that I really, really don't like any game(s) that claim to be a 'realistic, modern-day military RPG' when you have this Anime artstyle and long haired (by military standards) prettybois walking around and occasionally saying some philosophical mumbo jumbo with the intent of making the player feel guilty about playing the game as a soldier. In my humble opinion, the unique artstyle of Anime just makes me cringe when a serious situation develops or you engage hostiles that look like high schoolers. This is not an insult, just my personal opinion that is if you want some veracity from a war scenario, don't make the soldiers have this memory imprint (for a lack of a better word right now) of a high school boy à la Anime.
So, Long Gone Days is in early access and from what I managed to read about it has quite a backstory behind the development. It appears to be a one person passion project which is something the creator really deserves recognition and applause for. It is also interesting how little exposure this game has received enough though it looks like to be the second game every (first was Arma) to feature the modern Polish Armed Forces equipment in significant detail and have hypothetical Kaliningrad skirmishes as the central theme of the game.
This is not a reccomendation but merely just an update post that I thought it would be interesting. Personally speaking, the game is really interesting for the fact that the player character for the most part is stranded in place in which he does not know the language of, and the struggle of the military interaction with civilians is portrayed quite nicely. Especially when one is faced with a decision to surrender some of his/her valuable protection equipment in exchange for medicine for a sick civillian child. This is something that I honestly can't remember experiencing before in a commerical game with modern war as the main theme.
So, that would all for my return blog post. I might try to post some new things on the upcoming weekend but not promises. I hope you guys and girls are doing all fine in these early days of May! :D
- Reborn:X
Hey hey, figured you'd be busy with stuff xD
Yeah wtf is it with japan and High School. I cringed so hard while watching Code Geass whenever the school was brought up. Final Fantasy 15 is also very cringe worthy xD.
But it can work, when you're open for it. Well its a "getting used to it" kind of ordeal.
I know the game now too thanks to a buddy.
Hey, nice to see you again! :)
This might be an incorrect theory, but I think it is this way in order to be better 'readable', to better correct with the viewers since I suppose most of them are of high school age or simillar. Though that might be just the preference of the author.
This way I understood most of the media centering around this particular subject. Young adult fiction with a war motive.
Yeah to appeal to the high schoolers and the nostalgia feeling of those that used to go there.
Its almost like every piece of media from Japan that doesn't have them is exceptional.
Just like how every movie from the USA has to have a family in it.