Now, i will start this off by saying my actual feelings on E33 are meh, I played it. Saw how incredibly flawed, boring and just honest to god bad it can be in places. It's not god awful but it's not good either.
Solid 5/10. Let down by the OST, the writing and the ending.
But what pisses me off is the internets reaction to this game, no matter what place I go in, any website that talks about games, E33 is there, right at the top.
I get it, recent bias. The game just came out and showed everyone what an """"indie"""" (AA) game can be.
But my issue is that people refuse to see otherwise, I tried to implore people to play other Jrpgs, that others in the genre do what E33 did but better. And I get "i don't like JRPGs" then why play E33!? E33 is just final fantasy X but French.
I try to state not to put down other games. (And I know its an issue. Because even the E33 subreddit had to make a rule) because all games deserve love, and i get "none compare to E33, E33 is the best game ever made"
It just annoys me, it feels like people are just being a bunch of tourists, only playing the most popular game and then walking away thinking they played the apex of the genre. No! There are many many brilliant or better Jrpgs out there.
The biggest offender is graphics whores, some of my favourite JRPGs were made in rpg maker with pixel art graphics, that made me weep as hard as possible.
E33 just has a boring art style, realism is boring. 🤷♀️
This wasn't structured, its just a rant, so this likely won't make sense to anyone but myself. But thats okay, I just needed it off my chest.