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#21 Gi Nattak

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18 January 2016 - 05:29 PM

Denton, on 16 January 2016 - 06:03 PM, said:

Played through various versions of RotDS and it is a fantastic bit of work. Not *exactly* my cup of tea since Shadow had to be removed due to technical reasons; BUT it is quite awesome in just about every other way

Actually, Oboro, who takes the place of Shadow but remains pretty much the same character-wise, with his dog, throw command and all, is still present in this hack. He even has a bit more screen time and added backstory. Perhaps in regard to Shadow, you are thinking of the General Leo edition hack?:
http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/1619/

I know he chose to remove Shadow (my favorite character as well) in order to make Leo a permanent playable character.

In regard to the posts in this thread, it was a great read and I thank each one of you for your reassuring input. This is a very kind and respectful forum when it comes to these more serious topics I must say.

#22 Denton

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18 January 2016 - 05:41 PM

Gi Nattak, on 18 January 2016 - 05:29 PM, said:

My goodness, looks like I goofed. Yeah I'm talking about that other hack for the Shadow bit. I've played both this one and that one and got things confused. Maybe I need to take a break from FF6 stuff for a while

@The Thread:
I wanted to say that a good critic that provides useful and constructive criticism of a work is as valuable if not more valuable to the creation and dissemination of art and media than the actual creators themselves.

It is not difficult to create a terrible/easy rom hack (replace all the sprites with cats or something equally stupid) if the editor is stupid-easy to use for a particularly popular game (aka nearly any Mario game).

It takes a great deal of courage and time to weed through the tons of trash (in all forms of media).
Then a critic has to find those forms of art/media that are worthy of being dissected; then they must analyze them in such a manner as to make it both understandable and useful to BOTH their audience AND the original author. That kind of thing takes talent.

I've been on both ends as a critic and as a modder. Please do not underestimate the value of good critique