Terry Jones Posted May 1 Report Share Posted May 1 HOW IT SHOULD GO;COP; Stop right there! You're under arrest!PERP; Screw you dude I'm getting away on my fancy motorcycle!COP; Well too bad for you I have this hacking program that stops your motorcycle.PERP; Dammit I got caught by a broken program!COP; You have the right to remain silent, you have the right to an attourney etc. etc.PERP; I can break these cuffs!COP; You can't break those cuffs.HOW IT ACTUALLY GOES;COP; Stop right there! You're under arrest!PERP; Screw you dude I'm getting away on my fancy motorcycle!COP; Well too bad for you I have this hacking program that forces your motorcycle into neutral, now we have to play a children's card game to decide whether or not I get to arrest you.PERP; Jokes on you I run Baronne Le Fleur Tearlaments Turbo!COP; Crap, I only run Ojamas and Armed Dragons! Well you win, I have no choice but to let you go.PERP; The justice system fails again! Latter loser!COP; I am bad at my job. ________________________________________________________________________CARD GAMES ON MOTORCYCLES IS BORING;(I'm just gonna make up cards to help get to the point more quickly.)YUSEI; Alright Jack it's time to finally end this rivalry once and for all!JACK; Okay Yusei, let's see if you can keep up with the Master of Faster!(They start the race driving side by side.)YUSEI; First I play Hazbin Hotel, a Field Spell which lets me special summon as many monsters as I can from my Hand! I play Eternally Damned Vaggie, Alastor the Radio Demon and Warrior Undyne!JACK; Not so fast Yusei! In response to your special summoning I can special summon the Doom Slayer from my Hand wiping your entire board! It's my turn now and I attack your Life Points directly!YUSEI; Dammit I lost the first turn!JACK; That's right Yusei, now I'm able to take the lead in this "race"!(Jack drives up a few feet ahead, Yusei just lets him.)YUSEI; Because you destroyed my Warrior Undyne, I'm able to special summon Undyne the Undying! On top of that I normal summon Frisk the Fallen Human!JACK; Oh that's rich Yusei, well I can just discard 2 cards to trigger my Doom Slayer's field wipe again!YUSEI; Think again Jack! In response to Frisk being in danger, my Toriel is special summoned wiping out your Doom Slayer and negating his effect! Now I attack your Life Points directly!JACK; Piss wankers! Well fine then Yusei I guess you take the lead....for now!(Jack then sits there letting Yusei drive up a few feet in front of him.) It's like Konami or what have you had such little faith in the product speaking for itself that they had to add in these useless flourishes that really do nothing just to try and trick kids into thinking they were watching an action anime, hampering what was otherwise a great story with a huge distracting albatross around the show's neck making it more obvious this was just a several episode long commercial to sell toys and cardboard. Suspension of disbelief can only go so far..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sleepy Posted May 1 Report Share Posted May 1 Yeah in Yugioh there is suspension of disbelief about everything revolving around playing. It used to be constructed more in DM and Season Zero where the Millennium Items were the arbiters against "punching a blade into someone's skull in the middle of the game" or having characters like Seto Kaiba that had a clear pride towards winning at the very least. Then GX distorted this. The school revolves around the card game. Fighting over who got the best lunch? duel them for it. Bad guys need seven magical keys? gotta duel for them. In fact many of us in the audience would feel cheated whenever this implicit rule was broken (partially because we'd already endured the show falling into parody of itself and getting there). To its merits, 5DS tends to be consistent in following the rule, and despite the "more mature" look, it has no guns (unlike DM). GX had characters perfectly capable of dueling captured and used as fodder for a ritual, and that aspect sucked. Arc V would capture people without dueling and implemented a system where people could just jump into a duel with a negligible penalty, forcing an indefinite "free for all" scenario and making it so that almost no amount of skill or individual power mattered, kind of defeating the point of promoting the game well. --------- Hope you watched it subbed, but hearing "master of faster" makes me doubt it. It wouldn't change the story much and all your complaints would remain but the skin of the show is better xD Also, I find all this a fascinating read because I imagine this is about what the new viewer experience would be like for people not already deep in the franchise when bumping into it on TV back in the day. There are a bunch of mental gymnastics I can do in my head to justify the bikes and why they are not only accepted but have been brought back and/or referenced later on in the franchise..... but I completely understand what you mean xD haha. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Jones Posted May 2 Author Report Share Posted May 2 Holy shit there's other people here! XD 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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