Haven't even started the video yet, and I already know exactly what this is going to be in reference to. I was in awe of that entire terrible section too.
Have watched now, and I was right. Can confirm your suspicion that it's a problem with the original writing rather than the bad translation. It's strange because the dialogue and world building is generally so good in Japanese and so far ahead of most RPGs of the era, and then you have this whole subplot that is just absolute nonsense, and reads like the already embarrassingly naive "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" mentality filtered through a ten year old's understanding of economics and inequality. Don't know how much it comes through in the English, but in Japanese it *really* strongly suggests that it's the poor town's envy of the wealth and prosperity of the rich one that stops them from working and improving their own conditions. Even though said wealth was obtained illicitly by... er... straight up scamming people? Was so close to the real life situation where people accuse those criticising the unethical actions of billionaires of "just being jealous" and blame poor people for "choosing" poverty that it made me super-uncomfortable honestly, and soured me quite a bit on the otherwise very good-natured story. And yeah, I definitely saw the parallel with Ys IX as well. Though I think I hated that one even more, honestly. It's less confused and poorly written in that they at least make the rich people rich through vaguely legitimate means and don't expect you to treat a crooked casino as an admirable foundation for a city's economy, but I think the characterisation of poor people as lazy and poor by choice is even more explicit and mean-spirited, and I found it much harder to just write it off as poor writing. It felt to me more like it was saying something very ugly by design, and it happens so early in the game that it left a bad taste in my mouth and soured me on a lot of what followed.
this combined with falcom's weird refusal to say outright that the romun imperial rule of gllia is, in fact, just a bad thing with no asterisks, really paints a picture huh
Falcom and cringe-worthy writing, name a more obnoxious couple. The homophobia of Sky and religion glazing in Zero turned me off from playing more Falcom stuff, but this was worth knowing too.
You'd be better off keeping the videos trimmed to the core content and dodging the non-sequitur asides; people finding these videos are most likely curious RPG/Trails fans looking for info about the prior games and little else.
Haven't even started the video yet, and I already know exactly what this is going to be in reference to. I was in awe of that entire terrible section too.
Have watched now, and I was right. Can confirm your suspicion that it's a problem with the original writing rather than the bad translation. It's strange because the dialogue and world building is generally so good in Japanese and so far ahead of most RPGs of the era, and then you have this whole subplot that is just absolute nonsense, and reads like the already embarrassingly naive "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" mentality filtered through a ten year old's understanding of economics and inequality.
Don't know how much it comes through in the English, but in Japanese it *really* strongly suggests that it's the poor town's envy of the wealth and prosperity of the rich one that stops them from working and improving their own conditions. Even though said wealth was obtained illicitly by... er... straight up scamming people? Was so close to the real life situation where people accuse those criticising the unethical actions of billionaires of "just being jealous" and blame poor people for "choosing" poverty that it made me super-uncomfortable honestly, and soured me quite a bit on the otherwise very good-natured story.
And yeah, I definitely saw the parallel with Ys IX as well. Though I think I hated that one even more, honestly. It's less confused and poorly written in that they at least make the rich people rich through vaguely legitimate means and don't expect you to treat a crooked casino as an admirable foundation for a city's economy, but I think the characterisation of poor people as lazy and poor by choice is even more explicit and mean-spirited, and I found it much harder to just write it off as poor writing. It felt to me more like it was saying something very ugly by design, and it happens so early in the game that it left a bad taste in my mouth and soured me on a lot of what followed.
The Legend of Bootstraps: Prophecy of the "Welfare Queens"
Nurv you're getting really damn good at this. Trickle down lentilnomics had me rolling
this combined with falcom's weird refusal to say outright that the romun imperial rule of gllia is, in fact, just a bad thing with no asterisks, really paints a picture huh
Ah yes, the Robin Hood to Job Creator pipeline.
Access to those lentils should be means tested.
The milk of human kindness is enough to make a Mutant Super
Big lol at 3:09
Please make more I have no money but your content is fire
your kind words are more than enough, thank you for taking an interest
omgggggggggggg i completely forgot about Lunar
oh you mentioned lunar guess i'll be watching every video you have
'Night in the Woods is GOOD' opinion dismissed
Ugh! Flower shop gentrification 😢
alway wanted to play the originals legend of heroes but theyre too expensive and people say theyre not very good
just listened to the ost instead
Falcom and cringe-worthy writing, name a more obnoxious couple. The homophobia of Sky and religion glazing in Zero turned me off from playing more Falcom stuff, but this was worth knowing too.
good !!
You'd be better off keeping the videos trimmed to the core content and dodging the non-sequitur asides; people finding these videos are most likely curious RPG/Trails fans looking for info about the prior games and little else.
Thanks for watching!
Nope, I watch videos for stupidity in games and interesting facts. I could care less about RPG/Trails fans.
@@aznthy same!
Nope, that's literally the opposite of what's trending on youtube lol.
That sounds so sad and boring