hc: purple blood trolls are generally kinda shrimpy throughout the first like 6-8 sweeps of their life but then undergo very rapid growth spurts and get Fuckin Huge
Never actually seen it occur in canon, but I always imagine a young Dick Grayson at the start of his crime-fighting career, before people started to recognize Robin, busting out some circus skills as a distraction technique.
Like there’s a bunch of mobsters or whatever planning an assassination and then, boom, suddenly there’s a brightly-colored child standing on the table across the room, juggling and humming ‘Entrance of the Gladiators’, doing six backflips in a row, and then balancing on one hand from the back of a chair. He does a somersault and then bows deeply. The mobsters begin to clap, impressed despite their confusion. No one even thinks that Batman might be involved—this is so not his M.O. Is this kid a joke? Hired entertainment? Is it someone’s surprise birthday party? Will there be a cake?
And then it’s over before it began. They never got a chance to throw a single punch before Batman caught them.
Not only is this completely in line with Golden Age Robin but I think this would be the most cathartic thing for young Dick. “I’m unsure of your live fighting capabilities yet so preform some of your favorite sequences while I go out and punch the surrogates for your parents murderer. Keep going until I give you the signal to stop or I join in.”
“Dick, I believe in you, but you’re ten years old and weigh, like, 70 pounds soaking wet. I’ll train you to punch and kick like the best of them, but for now I think you should stick to what you do best: flips ‘n’ shit. Be adorable. Bask in the attention. Be too gosh darn cute to shoot at, and if that fails, be too fucking agile to actually hit. I’ll take care of the ‘gratuitous violence’ part.”
game devs could literally not use any famous actors in they shit and just go for talented veteran voice actors that can usually turn in a better vocal performance anyway and shave off millions from their budget they could use to improve the game and just
cut down the marketing a tiny little bit on the publisher’s part to save some money
so many huge devs and publishers have gone arrogant and are spending money all willy nilly on stupid crap rather than improving their games
As so many people have pointed out, ‘They could always just stop trying for the highest end of graphics and instead go for a set character style, which would save them a shitton of money on development and make for an iconic style to the game. Instead they spend money they don’t need to and then complain about the costs.’
golly gee you know what’s also crazy about that?
stylized games generally hold up far better than “attempted photorealism” games.
One of the best examples regarding the discussion of Art style > Technically better graphics is Wind Waker.
I mean, fuck. Look at this. This game is 15 years old already and looks so much better than a lot of modern stuff.
To further add to this:
Jet Set Radio
And Madworld.
Let me add this:
The original ps2 version of Okami
I feel like the projected need for hyper expensive photorealistic graphics is one of the biggest detriments of the modern gaming industry. A lot of publishers seem to have become absolutely terrified of anything experimenting with style and art design.
adding to the whole “stylize is better to the graphics” thing
one of my fav games is kirby crystal shards and it still holds up
