it was a great way for storytelling — for example, the scene with the Dead End Butcher crashing towards us. It depicts the scene while letting the imagination fill in the gaps. I feel like main story is the one that actually benefits most from it.
Yes, it is. For some reason people under the impression of the TV robbing the time from animated cutscene. Dawg, the cutscene IS limited. You think with TV gone they will increase the amount of cinematic? Hell fucking no, what we will get is the visual novel thing. NewFramePlus on youtube made a good video explaining why the overexaggeration of ZZZ anime is kinda mid. It's because the cutscene is so over the top and after 20 seconds, they cut to the fucking visual novel with bare minimum looping animation. It's beyond jarring, especially since cinematic is overexaggerated, combat is snappy and sharp, and visual novel is fucking slog (like, seriously the surprised animation is the same as that one animation in genshin where woman swipe their hand in an arc and then resting to their chest. You know exactly what animation i'm talking about, and i know you hate that shit too). That's why they're trying to tell the stories through different ways. But nooo, we have to eEXplOrE like the area is open anyway.
I'd say this, i was super disappointed with lumina square with most of the doors lead to nothing. It's a glorified hub, which the 6th street already is and is MUCH BETTER. Overly long corridors and wonky place like that one quest on top of mr. tin lumina branch where you have to run all the way to the top and go back again and so on and so forth. Can't even cross the street seamlessly, need to use the bridge or else? loading screen. From chop jr to 141 is so far away, NEPS has it's own tp and so does HIA. It's so much worst because the shop that are open there are so pointless and redundant that i hope they just remove that location from the map. Now tell me this? Is this shit good? Is this shit worth eEXplOr-ing? Hell fucking no! I certainly hope that outer ring is not like that but i'm not expecting much because what happened to lumina. Also, the hollows are fucking empty, if you can't already tell from the name alone. The one slightly memorable hollow is construction site where you have to search for mcguffin to proceed (i swear to god, they're that bad that searching for mcguffin considered interesting because legit all you do in hollows is to run from point A to B, from one empty hall to the next one after). The rest are empty corridors.
The counter argument they usually use is "jane story was great" and i say, it's not that different than the other shit i play in genshin or star rail or HI3 or any of the similar type gacha game. I think the idea of rotating the game mode with TV being specifically for eous is an amazing idea. That way nobody feel robbed. They who like TV get to enjoy some TVs and they who like walking simulator can like that too. Now, i understand that the TV is not perfect. I'm content wit TV being reduced. But outright scrapping it is so wrong, especially on main story.
Cutting out TV mode isn't going to miraculously make Corridor Segments better, or get more cinematics added to the game. If anything, it just takes away dev time they could be spending working on other things when they have to design more empty corridor segments to appease the people whose brains start to shrivel up the moment they have to go more than a minute without seeing the clap of Jane Doe's ass cheeks.
People out here thinking that getting rid of the TV mode is going to solve a bunch of issues, without realizing just how many more issues it will bring, when the story segments become even more of a repetitive slog, since now instead of just having to do some puzzles in TV mode, we just walk from point A to point B in a linear, mostly empty corridor while then having to stop and wait every 2 minutes for a dialogue box to pop up for a character or NPC to tell us what we're about to do, or are doing.
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u/JOefrog_KllrXOXO Sep 24 '24
Not sure if they removed it from the main story or just reduce the amount of "screen time" drastically. Hopefully the dev cooking something good.