• UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        Its not a crossover as far as I can tell.

        That helps. A lot. I am very sick of franchise blender smoothies that are basically corporate acquisition flexes. “Metaversus” was horrid to me.

        I may take a peek at some point, with guarded interest.

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            If Disney and Nintendo weren’t both such utterly ruthless IP hounds that have ruined the lives of ordinary people that did very little ultimately wrong, over and over, I’d be more in the mood to gobble up whatever crossover slop they’re offering next. I mean I used to enjoy Smash Bros quite a lot, and Kingdom Hearts was fun until the cumulative story soup flooded me out of the room.

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          Like I’ve been into crossovers since WAY before they became saturated. Like I came up with an “Omniverse” comic book universe with just… everything fictional in it when i was in like early highschool. And ive used the same basic concept for wrestling companies (multiple), dueling companies along the line of wrestling but with actual fights that are to the death, jrpgs, fighting games, ect. Ive always been into the idea.

          The only thing about Multiversus that sucks for me is that its based on what company owns the IP.

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            The only thing about Multiversus that sucks for me is that its based on what company owns the IP.

            It’s also loaded with predatory monetization, and many of the IPs in it are cynically and terribly misrepresented (the Iron Giant especially comes to mind), and in many, many cases the corporation that owns all of that won’t likely ever use the less-mainline characters or IPs in any other way except more crossover flexing.

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              Right yeah meant to mention the monetization.

              I’m ngl though I must have some sort of disconnect in my brain because Iron Giant is a very emotionally important movie to me and I totally get the idea of how its bad to put him in a fightin game, but I dont mind seeing him in a fighting game? Just one of those random autismdragon disconnects where I dont get whats upsetting people (there are a few too many of those and I am broken).

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                It’s a matter of subjective experience. Your experience is yours, and mine is mine. To me, seeing the character being (mis)used like that all to make a buck and go against everything he was and what he resolved to be in the one movie where I got to know him, well… it was bleak for me. It drained some of the joy and tenderness I felt about the experience, even after the fact.

                It’d be like if Artex from the Neverending Story was suddenly doing Fortnite dances while still halfway sunk in the Swamp of Sadness as part of a marketing stunt for Atreyu to start peddling NFTs.