[quote=“Abadd”]I have. I’ve played through one of the Tokimeki games, as well a couple of the Sakura Taisen games (1 and 3 to be exact).
It’s all fluff. All the female characters are two dimensional charicatures of what real women are like, the gameplay consists of multiple choice questions (with the exception of Sakura, which varies it up a little with some decent tactics battles), and the writing is exactly the same as any of the dime-a-dozen “kawaii” anime out there.
If you’re going to talk about story, then at least mention something with a little more depth. Movies? Try Lost in Translation, Spirited Away, the Ring, Akira, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, etc. Or hell, if you want something with more popcorn fluff, then at least talk about ones that do something interesting with it: Pulp Fiction, Resevoir Dogs, Clerks, Conan the Barbarian, etc.
Books? Try Ender’s Game, the LOTR trilogy… or if you want to get away from “geeky” stuff, then try Kokoro, Catch 22, Siddhartha, etc.[/quote]
Been there, done that. I’ve personally hate Hollywood films…talk about dumbed-down garbage…and the recycling of the same old actors over and over is really annoying. I can’t wait for CG to become so lifelike, that it replaces humans in films altogether. No more bad acting and no more conceit - wouldn’t that be something?
I also watch alot of Japanese Anime - I’ve seen basically every anime since 1995. That’s alot of anime…sad thing is, only about 20% of them were worth watching. Probably the best anime I’ve ever seen is El HAzard: Magnificent World - it started great, and ended perfectly.
As far as books go, there really isn’t anything good to read anymore…I’ve read all of Orson Scott Card’s material, as well as Robert Jordan and several other authors. I think the best books I’ve ever read were ‘Engines of Creation’ and ‘Nanosystems’ by Eric Drexler - and those are non-fiction.