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And that’s not even counting all the animes
I would love to see a game with a group of middle old man getting together and saving the world. Like a janitor, an unsuccessful salesman, a drink and a ex Yakuza boss. Now that’s a game I would pay big money for.
JRPGs in a nutshell — A group of teenagers and a goofy animal sidekick killing God using the power of friendship
Me who failed my HS years :/
All of those games are good.
…and just to be a dork… the first Trails of Cold Steel game isn’t about saving the world…that doesn’t happen until Trails of Cold Steel 4
Earthbound?
*Me, looking at Spider-Man: “…yeah, those Japanese sure love high school heroes haha”
Yeah but they have proper education so they can actually save the world.
In american movies it’s always some military guy, a fed or a dirty cop that does it.
Just sayin.
Target demographic = teens/preteens
Characters & Plot = teens & preteens with one or two adults doing teen/preteen stuff
Seems legit.
Actually in persona games you still have to learn.
You also have to in the three Houses game.
To be fair, by the time they get around to saving the world, the characters in Fire Emblem: Three Houses are in their early twenties… or, as the Japanese would consider it: “super old”.
It’s because they know the adults aren’t going to do it.
Well with Three Houses, it actually involves a schoolkid who tries to *end* the world and remake it while everyone else tries to save it. It’s actually a neat twist on a rather oversaturated genre.
If you know, you know.
School kids have more free time than adults in Japan so that’s a reason why they capitalize on those market.
They save the world just in time for their maths test 🙂
Not mad about it tho. All 4 of those games are awesome.
That’s how you target a specific audience. Most kids would want a chance of saving the world. A chance for eternal glory.
If you haven’t killed god by the time you graduate high school in Japan you have to repeat your final year.
True story.
Meanwhile Video Game artists be like: “Of course the schoolgirl would have a tailored BDSM catsuit. How else is she going to save the world?”
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Persona 5 is a very good example of why it is so : see all that free time you have to manage ? Salarymen don’t have that. It’s not that those games appeal to that demographic, it’s that it’s realistically the only demographic that has some time to dedicate to saving the world.
There is also a lot of American teens saving the world. But mostly in books less games and TV.
Careful, criticizing repetitive JRPG plots can get you down-voted to hell around these parts.
Tbh in Three houses they aren’t schoolkids anymore when they end up saving the world.
You know what I like about Witcher 3 is that Geralt is just an old badass dude.
From my understanding, its a common fantasy in Japan. attributed to by the soul crushing work culture that happens in alot of places after school age there. With alot of people looking back on school days as being a period of hope and freedom.
Stranger things
It is because their main target audience are people in school.
Also in JRPGs you become an old man with back problems at 25.
In their culture, high school is the best period in a person’s life. For comparison, I believe the USA feels college is, and thus an US hero will most likely be a young adult whereas a Japanese will be a teenager.
Yeah well in Japan after you leave education your life is near exclusively work in a standard salaryman job so it wouldn’t make sense from a storytelling perspective and the target demographic is also teenagers so it makes sense from all angles
Three houses is a poor example lol.
They are at an officers academy. You know, for war.
Also the save the world after a time skip and are no longer students and have been fighting a war for quite a while.
They don’t got bills yet.
Meanwhile Americans think Aliens will invade only US
Yeah, Japanese school kids are raised in a culture that has faced actual apocalypse. Understandable.
Don’t forget Pokemon.
“Save the world from Kyogre and Groudon’s rampage!”
“Save the world from Giratina!”