lack of emotion in luminary

[GrandTickler]

really this guy is dead inside.. no anger, no happiness, no opinions. It's like were playing with a kid with a mental disorder. as im playing trough this game i become more and more attached to all the characters, each with their own unique personality. yet the hero i grew to dislike more every day due to his boring expressionless face and wimpy attitude.
why did they program him in such a way? theres nothing about him that stands out as heroic.
hes honestly my least likeable protagonist ever in videogame history lol

id pick child Hendrik a milion times over this protagonist, since he actually looks and acts like a real hero.. what about you guys?

[Omoikane]

Silent protagonists are meant to be blank slates for you to input your own emotions to the situations.
Or at least that is how it was explained to me years ago.

[Honorable_D]

Aye, I've never been a fan of the silent protag trope. Just imagine what the voice actor for him had to go through—nothing but grunts, groans and yells and then he's done, lol

About the most emotion that I've seen come from him is his yell during the Buff-Buff pep power...haha

[GrandTickler]

Originally posted by Omoikane:

Silent protagonists are meant to be blank slates for you to input your own emotions to the situations.
Or at least that is how it was explained to me years ago.

that may work in games where you just fight monsters like most of the games where you're allowed to create your own character,(or 2d games) but not in story driven games where it affects the personal life of the protagonist, including his parents, friends and so on. he just comes over as uncanny valley to me at this point lol

[JMSLionheart]

I agree.
For instance, Dragon Quest VIII hero was also silent but very expressive. That is how it should be done. I grew attached to that hero in particular because you can relate to him unlike what happens here in DQ XI. It's a shame.

[Tenshi]

Emotionless protags have been a thing in RPGs since forever and i never really had a problem with it, but in this game is a little different, people interact with your hero and he simply don't give a ♥♥♥♥, it was pretty weird some times, it's not like in DQVIII where the protag is silent but he does gestures with the hand to show that he's actually talking. DQXI probably has the worst silent protag i've ever seen.

[ichimanju]

He reminds me of that horror movie with chuckie the doll.

[AsianGirlLover]

Erik should have been the damn protagonist, but purple boy would be my close second choice

[Epic_Caesura]

See Link for how this can be done well. See... DQXI for how this can be done badly.

That said, I found almost everyone else pretty charming.

[GrandTickler]

Originally posted by Epic_Caesura:

See Link for how this can be done well. See... DQXI for how this can be done badly.

That said, I found almost everyone else pretty charming.

yeah that fact is what's triggering me the most lol. im not counting on it but i hope for a mod that lets us control different characters in the overworld so we dont have to play with this robot hero lol. all the other characters are just wonderful.
it kinda reminds me of final fantasy 10, where every other character was way cooler than the MC. but at least Tidus was a little cry baby that had emotions, which is still countless times better than the luminary who cant even shed a single tear.

edit: the only thing that could fix this if you were to tell me that his emotions/soul was stolen back when he was a baby lol

[Epic_Caesura]

Originally posted by GrandTickler:

edit: the only thing that could fix this if you were to tell me that his emotions/soul was stolen back when he was a baby lol

Well, we know his soul wasn't stolen when he was a baby because the young hero is plenty emotive in the flashback scene..

So presumably he lost his soul in his early teens.

[themollusk45]

yeah, the whole silent protagonist thing isn't great

[AsianGirlLover]

Originally posted by Epic_Caesura:

Originally posted by GrandTickler:

edit: the only thing that could fix this if you were to tell me that his emotions/soul was stolen back when he was a baby lol

Well, we know his soul wasn't stolen when he was a baby because the young hero is plenty emotive in the flashback scene..

So presumably he lost his soul in his early teens.

He lost his soul in his teens from listening to too much alternative rock and going through an emo phase

[GrandTickler]

Originally posted by AsianGirlLover:

Originally posted by Epic_Caesura:

Well, we know his soul wasn't stolen when he was a baby because the young hero is plenty emotive in the flashback scene..

So presumably he lost his soul in his early teens.

He lost his soul in his teens from listening to too much alternative rock and going through an emo phase

lmao fair enough

[ichimanju]

But he loves Gemma!

right?

[Omoikane]

Originally posted by AsianGirlLover:

Originally posted by Epic_Caesura:

Well, we know his soul wasn't stolen when he was a baby because the young hero is plenty emotive in the flashback scene..

So presumably he lost his soul in his early teens.

He lost his soul in his teens from listening to too much alternative rock and going through an emo phase

It was the midi music that really did him in.