Does the game ease up on the anime tropes?

[Soulkey]

I have been recommended this game a lot by friends and the reviews are pretty stellar as well, so I figured why not.

However within the first hour I have been reminded constantly why I stopped watching anime in the first place: the game keeps bombarding me with clichéd tropes (eg: girl falls on protagonist and then goes full sulky, other girl carries a sword twice her size etc).

So the question is does the game eventually "ease up on the anime"?

[EdgarAllenSwole]

It stays that way from start to finish.

[myhr2]

No, but it takes anime tropes and use them as they should be used, as narrative tools toward something else, rather than just there for cheap characterisation.

So yeah, the girl falling on the protagonist does go full sulky, but it is resolved quite quickly, and evolves into something else, while shedding some light into the girl's psychology, and the other girl that does carries a sword twice her size, well, it makes sense seeing who she is and what her goals are.

So, again, no, it definitly doesn't ease up on the anime, quite the contrary, but it does it in a thoughful and meaningful way, narrative-wise. If it's not your thing, then it's not, but...the tropes are not surface-level, they are basis toward something more.

[Rammur]

why would it ease on the anime the game is literally a anime in on it self and thats what we like jrpgs in general are normally the anime of the gaming world if you dont enjoy anime and anime troped man are you in the wrong genre all together. not all of em but most of them the good ones anyways.

[Soulkey]

Originally posted by myhr2:

No, but it takes anime tropes and use them as they should be used, as narrative tools toward something else, rather than just there for cheap characterisation.

So yeah, the girl falling on the protagonist does go full sulky, but it is resolved quite quickly, and evolves into something else, while shedding some light into the girl's psychology, and the other girl that does carries a sword twice her size, well, it makes sense seeing who she is and what her goals are.

So, again, no, it definitly doesn't ease up on the anime, quite the contrary, but it does it in a thoughful and meaningful way, narrative-wise. If it's not your thing, then it's not, but...the tropes are not surface-level, they are basis toward something more.

Thanks, I will continue the story. Afterall that's why I started the game the first place.

I guess that scene I mentioned just made a bad first impression, as I found it extremely childish and out place...but again we will see how the story plays out.

[Rajangs Left Big Toe]

They make fun of that scene in a later game.

[Stabbey]

Originally posted by Rajangs Left Big Toe:

They make fun of that scene in a later game.

But not in a clever way.

[Shepard]

Imagine playing a JRPG and complaining about anime tropes lmao

[daemon/doll]

Originally posted by Favarooo!!!:

Imagine playing a JRPG and complaining about anime tropes lmao

tru tru

[Soulkey]

Originally posted by Favarooo!!!:

Imagine playing a JRPG and complaining about anime tropes lmao

Imagine an anime game doing it a bit more subtle....

[Dragon]

Originally posted by Soulkey:

So the question is does the game eventually "ease up on the anime"?

Absolutely not, no, it never does. Neither do the games that come after it either.

[Dr. Rudolf von Richten]

Originally posted by Dragon:

Absolutely not, no, it never does. Neither do the games that come after it either.

How would you know; you hate these games too much to even bother playing them.