3rd November 2016, 5:48 PM
Yeah, I'm not expecting great things from White Knight Chronicles, but I have to try it.
Like, you're absolutely right about most anime/etc. characters being extremely one-note regurgitated stereotypes, but it's kind of always been like that I think. Is it really getting worse, or have I just seen so much of it now that it's overly familiar?
Quote: White Knight Chronicles was the start of my disenchantment with Japanese RPGs. They've become such paint by number affairs with rote characters that are defined entirely by single traits like "doesn't get noticed, isn't that hilarious?" or "is secretly in love with the protagonist, like Helga from Hey Arnold". The gameplay of the recent Fire Emblem games has been spot on, but the recent stories have just been... boring...Yeah, there's a lot of truth to this, but here's what I'm not sure of -- has anything actually changed, or was Japanese manga/anime/videogame writing always kind of been like this? Are the stories of the recent FE games actually worse than the GBA stories, or is it just that we have more exposure to the mediocrity of most anime/Japanese videogame writing now, which makes the newer ones look worse...
Like, you're absolutely right about most anime/etc. characters being extremely one-note regurgitated stereotypes, but it's kind of always been like that I think. Is it really getting worse, or have I just seen so much of it now that it's overly familiar?