Later that night:
This is it, everybody. I found the moment when gen AI finally went too far.
“The bride is ripe and the groom is ready.”
The weirdly raunchy text makes this seem like a shitpost.
It basically is, it just took a whole lot more effort to do it back then.
What I love about this Era of video game art is that there isn’t even character consistency in this ad! The box art in the bottom right has different looking characters than the characters on the page!
And you can bet the in-game characters look nothing like the box art.
This is Percy in game, the rightmost character on the box
Fairly accurate, surprisingly
The three pixels are green, what more do you want
Nevermind that this was a Japanese game and the American marketing team just didn’t give a single fiddle about the source material.
Or the era of completely interchangeable words. Like, if we follow this ad’s logic, tomato is both a surname and a marital status
I was very surprised to scroll down and find that this wasn’t AI generated.