I disagree.
Disney's version of the little mermaid was always bad from a story standpoint. What it aimed to do (and still succeeds at) is entertain children rather than be the actual tale.
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The Little Mermaid. Is it getting flak because of racism, or because it's yet another remake?
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Disney's version of the little mermaid was always bad from a story standpoint. What it aimed to do (and still succeeds at) is entertain children rather than be the actual tale.
Although I agree that the story wasn't the best, the issue with the remake is that they added a lot of random details and lines that only served to do something random like explain why the main male lead was white. Then other weird details, like King Triton being white with a wide range of different races for his children. My conspiracy really just pokes at these decisions because it honestly feels like Disney is either trying to create conversations around these cast choices or they really just feel like cramming in so much "representation" that they don't even care that it doesn't make much sense. The second would be acceptable if they didn't randomly add lines, like clarifying that Eric was adopted. If they didn't feel the need to throw in those kinds of lines, I would have just considered this another mid Disney movie that exploited the wants of representation.
I understand this but "woke" seems to just be thrown at everything these days and is starting to feel like the Right's version of "Everything I don't like is Hitler"
Keep reading because the article is pretty extensive and will answer any question you have as to the meaning right wing people give it
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TwoSpikedHands:
yall im torn... ive been hacking away at tales of phantasia GBA (the USA version) and have so many documents of reverse engineering i've done -
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TwoSpikedHands:
I just found out that the EU version is better in literally every way, better sound quality, better lighting, and there's even a patch someone made to make the text look nicer
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TwoSpikedHands:
Do I restart now using what i've learned on the EU version since it's a better overall experience? or do I continue with the US version since that is what ive been using, and if someone decides to play my hack, it would most likely be that version?
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Sicklyboy:
@TwoSpikedHands, I'll preface this with the fact that I know nothing about the game, but, I think it depends on what your goals are. Are you trying to make a definitive version of the game? You may want to refocus your efforts on the EU version then. Or, are you trying to make a better US version? In which case, the only way to make a better US version is to keep on plugging away at that one
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Sicklyboy:
I'm not familiar with the technicalities of the differences between the two versions, but I'm wondering if at least some of those differences are things that you could port over to the US version in your patch without having to include copyrighted assets from the EU version
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TwoSpikedHands:
@Sicklyboy I am wanting to fully change the game and bend it to my will lol. I would like to eventually have the ability to add more characters, enemies, even have a completely different story if i wanted. I already have the ability to change the tilemaps in the US version, so I can basically make my own map and warp to it in game - so I'm pretty far into it!
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TwoSpikedHands:
I really would like to make a hack that I would enjoy playing, and maybe other people would too. swapping to the EU version would also mean my US friends could not legally play it
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TwoSpikedHands:
I am definitely considering porting over some of the EU features without using the actual ROM itself, tbh that would probably be the best way to go about it... but i'm sad that the voice acting is so.... not good on the US version. May not be a way around that though
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The Real Jdbye:
@TwoSpikedHands just switch, all the knowledge you learned still applies and most of the code and assets should be the same anyway -
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The Real Jdbye:
and realistically they wouldn't
be able to play it legally anyway since they need a ROM and they probably don't have the means to dump it themselves -
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