It's his eyes... those damn eyes...

[Sgt.Pepper]

I recently made a post talking (complaining lol) about how the protag looks really wimpy and I thought it was his juvenile face shape and hair style making him look like the P3 protagonist who looks super young, similarly to Joker and whatnot, but I looked at the P3R portrait of the Protag and the Metaphor Portrait of the Protag........ why are his eyes so BIG??? the metaphor protagonist's eyes are like big ass balls on his face. And yes yes the p3r art gives the protag decently large eyes in some shots but this is mainly referring to their "Speech" portraits and not like key art.

[Tommy Wiseau]

Glad im not the only one who feels this way, i have a really hard time getting into games with wimpy main characters or characters who just look stupid, i blame his little hair thing. Whatever its called girls wear it idk.

[JCKLNTRN]

He does have large eyes. It may be a racial trait.

[N/A]

You've got people with wings and skulls warped like birds. People with horns. People with animal ears and warped almost dog-like noses. But the anime characters eyes are too big.,,

Really? Reeeeeeeaaaaaaaallllyy? O. K. ok. Have fun with that.

[zero]

welcome to: the anime game by the devs who made several other anime styled games.

[Lysamus]

The anime genre may not be an ideal fit for your tastes if you're not a fan of big eye designs.

You might enjoy western developed games more.

[Kaelmato]

It does seem a bit odd yeah.
To me it looks kind of like they were going for a female protagonist, but changed to a male midway through development and they didn't want to change the design too much.
It could also just be racial trait as someone suggested.

I don't really mind it though.

[Metadragon]

I do wonder whats up with the androgynous looking characters from Atlus lately. And I dont mean their normal style cause of course they do it and have been but the protagonist of Metaphor and SMT 5 legitimately look like flat chested women.

Why are they splitting hairs? If they want a female protag then they should just do it. Does this style appeal to anyone except hentai artists and a specific type of female fan?

[zero]

how quickly people forget about ryuji 'for real' talk sprite that pops up like every convo

[Many-Named]

WOKE EYES

[REBirthTheEdge]

Wow, large eyes are a problem now?

[REBirthTheEdge]

Originally posted by Metadragon:

I do wonder whats up with the androgynous looking characters from Atlus lately. And I dont mean their normal style cause of course they do it and have been but the protagonist of Metaphor and SMT 5 legitimately look like flat chested women.

Why are they splitting hairs? If they want a female protag then they should just do it. Does this style appeal to anyone except hentai artists and a specific type of female fan?

It appeals to me.

The normal person who isn't extreme and can appreciate a normal wide eyed protagonist.

[Klinestife]

i personally haven't been staring deeply into the protagonist's eyes trying to decipher the emotions i'm feeling towards him, but you do you.

[cckim92]

It's not really those eyes make one look like a wimp fool
It's those eyes that make those "butt the fck in" social links looks natural.