#Dragon quest xi the measure of a man skin#
#Dragon quest xi the measure of a man series#

I'll readily admit that I don't know the first thing about Japanese copyright law, so it's very possible not all the issues raised above will be solved with his death.

#Dragon quest xi the measure of a man series#

(And while I'm of the opinion DQ7's MIDI is actually solid, I absolutely refuse to play DQ8 without the symphonic score for obvious reasons.) The MIDI tracks recycled across the franchise - and, by association, represent the series via numerous spin-offs - frequently fail to convey the original compositions' majesty, not the least in their Smash Bros. The 3DS remakes are stripped of their orchestral tracks for the Western localizations. Dragon Quest XI's MIDI instrumentation is an abomination. I won't even pretend Dragon Quest's musical fiascos measure up to even a tenth of the level of importance as the issues raised within this thread, but even if you were to disingenuously shrug off his abhorrent views and activities, his iron-grip upon the soundtrack and gradual lack of care towards the series negatively impacted the modern Dragon Quest experience. Needless to say, the world is an objectively better place without him in it and I do hope those subject to his political crusades find their lives that much easier. It was a persistent point of guilt in my enjoying Dragon Quest: a series with nary a cynical bone in its body. I make no excuses for Sugiyama's activism - it was especially hurtful that a man so essential to the awareness of game music and who inspired countless others in the industry (Hayato Matsuo, Yoko Shimomura, and Hirokazu Ando) used his fortune to cause great harm to the marginalized. I'm hardly a religious individual, but over the next hundred hours I spent with that game, I hoped that with every harpstring and trumpet blare that he was, as I always do, watching over me. I'm especially terrible at describing the finer points of music - an irksome weakness as a writer - yet the way its boundless beauty summoned an otherworldly surge of emotions that night practically brought me to tears. I'll never forget the first time I heard DQ8's overworld theme - it was the eve of my brother's ninth anniversary from a tragic overdose and emotions were understandably running high in our household, and from the first plucks of the harp I was immediately transported to this Jesus artwork my dad found solace in after his death.

I wish his family has the strength to endure his loss, and that people on the internet understand why there are people happy that he passed instead of using rhetoric. And if you say I'm as bad as them maybe you should try to have more empathy, or maybe you should read the text again. Think if they would be more angry at us for being angry at a man who made such vile statements about their existences or at us for being angry at such person and saying he's better dead than being praised and making fun of them.ДЄs someone who's gay, asexual and nonbinary and lives in Brazil I also feel angry at people who are praised for, for a while, making me hate my existence to the point of almost ending my life.

#Dragon quest xi the measure of a man skin#

Think about those who are in the skin of those teenagers today. Imagine how they would feel? If one of them was a DQ fan and was alive, how they would react to see the composer of a game that indeed might helped them live, making fun of the everlasting fear they had?

And those he laughed at passed for too much as well, to the point they were rather taking away their lives to keep living in a society that in fact wished them dead since their childhood.

Our feeling of anger and relief is valid. How an LGBT person who spent most of their life in a closet scared to death to be themself and had tried suicide and survived is supposed to feel about someone laughing about the suicide rate of LGBT people in a country we'd be denied even basic rights? People bring up that we must never had any loss to laugh at a death(which is already not true as I lost my dad to cancer just last year and he almost half the age of Sugiyama).Д«ut. I think more about this and that's so true.