Nice post there, DeNice. Agree with a lot of it.
Those ugly screen overlays that happen when you die or get low on health in these games is like the bane of ryona. The Arkham games absolutely suck with this as well, with the ridiculously quick fade to black.
What is even more annoying is in games like Mass Effect, which already have garbage death animations, not only do you get the ugly screen effect, but you also get this sound dampening effect where you can no longer hear the sounds properly. Basically, anything to mess with your visual and audible senses to simulate the feeling of being "near death". I hate it, lol.
Another pet peeve of mine is the lack of decent audio for character deaths in some of these recent games. Dishonored 2 has absolutely no audio sounds when you die as Emily. For Honor has amazing looking execution animations, but absolutely no proper audio for the kills being used. Get stabbed in the throat? No audio cue to go along with it. Freaking annoying as hell to me.
These fighting games are also kind of a letdown for me, personally. I am more into spread eagle type of KOs and if you look at all these 2D fighters you almost never get that type of KO animation for the females. They are almost always curled up in some sort of fetal position or whatever. I feel like Chun-Li from 3rd Strike is the last 2D KO animation that fit my tastes. DOA and Tekken also kind of stink for this. DOA has such amazing costumes and stuff, but the fighters don't even appear to be KO'd to me so there is nothing really there for me.
Injustice 2 has some nice looking knockdown animations, but since there is no actual KO at the end I am kind of left wanting more. And I feel like the female character models look so much better compared to the first game's and the gear system looks really nice, too. It just sucks that they brought back that 'kneel down in defeat' crap from Injustice 1.
It seems like a lot of the decent ryona scenes that appeal to me are part of storyline cutscenes nowadays. Like in Tomb Raider, none of the game's death animations were any good to me(due to crap voice acting), but her nearly being choked to death in a cutscene was somewhat decent.
Playing the recent Mass Effect trial, none of the actual combat animations are any good. Just generic ragdoll garbage with no effort put in whatsoever. However, I liked where your characters gets her mask busted open in a cutscene and nearly chokes to death on the toxic atmosphere. That was well animated and well voice acted.
That is what I have to hope for nowadays, some decent cutscene ryona, lol.
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I would love if Kidman was the main character for an Evil Within sequel. What about Sebastian's wife as another potential option, though? He kept mentioning her in the first one and wasn't there some sort of intrigue as to what actually happened to her? I can't remember specifics as it's been a while for me and the story was so nonsensical to begin with, lol. But yeah, looking forward to that and of course the Resident Evil 2 remake. Still can't believe RE7 was first person, haha.
Oh another possibility for some decent ryona scenes might be the next Quantic Dream game, Detroit. We will see, though, as we don't know too much about that game at this point.
