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Remains to be seen if its any good of course but I'm into them trying.

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[-] autismdragon@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago

Right yeah meant to mention the monetization.

I'm ngl though I must have some sort of disconnect in my brain because Iron Giant is a very emotionally important movie to me and I totally get the idea of how its bad to put him in a fightin game, but I dont mind seeing him in a fighting game? Just one of those random autismdragon disconnects where I dont get whats upsetting people (there are a few too many of those and I am broken).

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago

Sterling summarized a lot of the bad feelings I felt about the whole "Multiversus" thing probably better than I could, some time ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ITWExeJguk

[-] autismdragon@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago

Yeah I saw. I was half responding to their thoughts with what I said. I totally get and technically agree that its bad for corporate reasons I just dont emotionally connect.

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

I understand that.

This video is a follow-up that might shed more light on how many of the rest of us feel about it, in particular the simultaneous watering down of horror characters and concepts to render the horror of them sort of meaningless and the utter cash-in cynicism of a related crossover: the Space Jam sequel, that even featured the Droogs from Clockwork Orange as a wink wink nudge nudge gag within an ostensibly all-ages children's cartoon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2s5_I4i3hw

[-] autismdragon@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago

Yeah I saw this one too (I watch most of their videos) and the only thing I could really connect with was the Droogs part because the tonedeafness of that seems obvious.

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

It really is a matter of subjective experience and emotional connection (or lack thereof) to the characters and settings. I suppose you already know well enough why others that are tired of (or didn't like in the first place) crossover products, while for you you already made a different connection that sparks joy for you: that you had crossovers of your own already in mind, which I can only assume reached for forests over the individual trees so it didn't matter as much if specific characters seemed "off" as long as it worked for you to see them clash.

As a former enjoyer of both Smash Bros and Kingdom Hearts and even Super Robot Wars, I used to like crossover stuff but I burned out especially as the corporations got bigger and more bloated and devoured more and more of what were once unique entities, many of them not likely to ever be seen again except as crossover IP flexes by the ever-larger holding corporations. That's my take, and I'm not alone in it, I think.

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[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

It's a matter of subjective experience. Your experience is yours, and mine is mine. To me, seeing the character being (mis)used like that all to make a buck and go against everything he was and what he resolved to be in the one movie where I got to know him, well... it was bleak for me. It drained some of the joy and tenderness I felt about the experience, even after the fact.

It'd be like if Artex from the Neverending Story was suddenly doing Fortnite dances while still halfway sunk in the Swamp of Sadness as part of a marketing stunt for Atreyu to start peddling NFTs.

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