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To me, there is only three real forms of entertainment books,
movies/Anime, and RPG's. Each one of these three forms of entertainment
has its own completely different approach to the same things. Books can
have deep sociological plots, mysterious foreshadowing, and tantalizing
characters. Movies and Anime can give me mind-blowing action, sound and
picture with a long range of comedy, action and light plot. RPGs, on
the other hand, is like a combination of the two mixed together with a
battle system and a long character development. These three are like a
triangle full of water, if one of them is broken from my daily routine
I'm then left with an empty prism of emptiness.
Books, they have been around for centuries yet some of us have
forgotten our basic rotes. Books can give us different opinions,
different views, and different ideas at the same time. Novels can given
us epic adventures with brutal killing and violence, they can send us
into a deferent plane of existence as we leap out of our own, and most
importantly they can they let us stand on the shoulders of giants so we
can look down to discover more. From novels to poems from opinion
pieces to declassified CIA reports all literary devices are there only
to give us knowledge and for a clear coherent message. With this in
mind all fiction pieces are there for one clear purpose to entertain
you, no fillers to tie greater things together like cliché plots. With
books you can have extreme concepts and a different universe but more
importantly they can relate these concepts back to the real world and
your life. From changing your life to informing you about your life in
general Books can do it yet only the most insignificant of things can
trigger the keys to this realm and to the explosion of your mind with
plot and in-depth plot twists. From deep space to the confines of you
mind plot reins supreme in this alternate entertainment, yet with
familiar faces, ideas, and personality as subjects and citizens in this
world only the ignorant shall never enter its walls.
Anime to traditional black and white screenings there purpose is
mainly to give you a connection to what you are seeing then to ether
explode your mind to pieces with plot twists or to fill your mind with
knowledge, laughter, joy, sorrow or any other emotion you can think of.
With in depth characters and likable designs, voices, personalities and
views this piece of the puzzle fits perfectly. Techniques, experience,
and technology all expand the experience like nothing I have
experienced before. With a extremely long list of objectives the main
topic is hard to focus on and usually gets side tracked with, needless
character development of secondary characters, trying to combine all
styles into one and just generally changing of ideas, and staff during
production. Using acting techniques you are drawn ever closer with
expressions, graphics and sound. Usually most movies that come out of
the market are brainless plot less pieces of trash that nobody in there
right mind would ever pay 8 bucks to go for, but once in a blue moon
there is one that blows your mind and will keep it for the next month.
Anime on the other hand are usually just different levels of positive
feedback, mostly because they usually try for a clear coherent view and
reason for making it, even if it is for making money, they almost
always have a good way off doing it; even with shonen anime they have a
extreme view on it, not just a bad movie to get money basically on
the commercials they put out. This form of entertainment is like the
blowfish, if you cut it at the wrong place it is highly poisonous and
could kill you, but cut accurately and the fish is juicy succulent and
addictive.
Like I said earlier RPGs are a combination of the two in the lowest
of compliments. An RPG can have blowing mind like plot twist and
graphics to boot. With a usually long playtime you are attached to the
characters like glue and leave this world to fight in their world. Character
development is where RPG's in general really shine. Since you are
fighting along side the party and it feels like if the party dies you
die, when something drastic happens to anyone who you fought with and
had to train for hours on end you are touched just as much as the party
must feel. There is a RPG sense in all RPGs how little or large. One
great example is Final Fantasy 4 or 2 in America. With so many people
dieing here and there the whole environment is like a huge war without
even saying anything really to give you that idea. Also since
everything in that game is based on the fact that everybody has good
and evil (yes it is if you don't believe me play the game again and see
for yourself) everything then is all leading up to the end and when the
end comes you are in absolute joy. As the ending rolls on after the
credits your mind is just out of your head and you are forced by the
RPG sense to sit threw the prelude three times. The battle system is just
to tie everything together and to heighten the plot and character
development in my opinion. The more complicated and hard to learn the
battle system is the overall worst it is, simplicity is always the best
solution. To have a good RPG in my book you need to have a great plot
that can ether blow my mind or fill it with knowledge. Cliché plots are
bearable in my opinion if it isn't entirely cliché. For example Wild
Arms is a good cliché as it has one of the best individualism I have seen
in many years. The cliché settings and situations aren't entirely
cliché since it shows a whole other side. Unlike books though without
likable characters the whole RPG sense breaks down and we are left with
a steaming pile of 100's of hours of potential and a shell of
ingredients.
A right triangle of entertainment, the books and the movies as the
legs and RPG's as the hypotenuse. The legs are what give it its real
name but without the hypotenuse it can never be a polygon ever again.
The right angle binds the two totally different things just like the
hypotenuse but without ether the water inside would be empty. The water
inside is a symbol for the entertainment I receive from the three forms
of entertainment. Without ether of the sides the water is cannot be
contained or even gathered.
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