Conflating machine learning tools with GenAI and LLMs are such a favorite of these bad faith arguments, too. Like, machines studying X-rays to better understand cancer is not the same thing as Open AI swallowing all my books via piracy to regurgitate sentences that sound similar. It's just not.

And one other thing: we’re being told that AI is the only way to make games cheaper and faster, to pull us from this precipice of production nightmares the industry has found itself in. That it’s necessary.

We put out roughly 3 motherfucking games a year, not touching the stuff.
Skill issue.

Has your eye adjusted to always being covered or does it suffer for the look?

Lol how did you get that wrong?

They gave art to Namine as he one thin. Kairi never mentions or shows any interest in it after 1

I think it reflects on them, just not all encompassingly. They made a really shitty sexist game and story One time. KH meanwhile still has major issues with how it treats its woman to this day but nowhere near 3rds level. And Rebirth treats its girls well overall. people have multitudes

He had enough time to come up with clothing damage on a character who is eventually reveled to be a teenager. It’s an embarrassing chapter in a great creatives career. It sucks but it happens sometimes

He was the creative Director above Toriyama and approved it. He also played into through the clothing damage system HE came up with. But yes Toriyama actually wrote it, the whole thing is really the nadir for both of them imo. Just nothing salvageable

His Aya art is really iconic, but that’s not the main association many will have with him either. But that doesn’t really change that being the creator of the clothing damage system and the games story is absolutely a black mark. Tbf nothing else he’s ever worked on has ever been that bad.

Even if that’s true it’s just another slap in the face that it’s been happening for so long. Obviously outside factors play a role but if the final product is sexist it’s sexist. And frankly I can’t imagine many other series getting so much rope for constantly fumbling the main female character

Nomura came up with the clothing damage system in 3rd Birthday, and approved its story which is one of the all time most misogynistic stories in gaming history. So while I don’t think it’s intentional or hateful he absolutely has contributed massively to really misogynist art

It’s sexist, just not like intentionally hateful. More middle aged dude doesn’t really think about women much one way or the other.

Kairi turning into Sora to beat the final boss on her own game is absurdly embarrassing but it wasn’t done outta hate.

Xion prob the best written female character

Oh there both bad, but Arendelle bringing down the average is so real. Larxene is the only part of it with anything resembling a pulse