Yeah, mostly this. It’s also trying to find a character I feel I could emulate with the least amount of effort purely for my personal amusement and others as a cheap party trick.
There’s also the satisfaction of seeing some character act out how you think you would in specific situations.
I mean, I’ve had major depression my whole life, so there’s plenty in these games for me to latch onto without needing to see me in them. And I tend to identify with whole works instead of individual characters (this is probably part of my Pynchon thing).
Nevermind that I’ve been long conditioned that if I see anyone that looks like me in basically any media, they are there to either make everyone laugh at them, be the big bad guy, or both. So I’m usually relieved not to find me there.
This has been a step in realizing why everyone thinks my movie opinions are so alien. I am looking in media to be with the characters to be part of their journey. To share their drive and desires and hopes and wishes. Not say I can’t also enjoy something being crazy but good Rudie media means I am invested in their goals.
Even if a lot of times the goal in video games is to see the ending. Like Nier!
None of this is to say I don’t like the characters in Nier. I like them and being with them whole lot. They just aren’t me, and that is OK with me.
When I first started Automata and getting passed the opening bits one of my first thoughts was “I like 2B and 9S outfits. I can’t wait to see what style they have for an adult male.” I was low-key hoping for some dapper dandy outfits but then you find out that’s not happening at all.
have you played the best nier game, YoRHa Dark Apocalypse? you can put the gear on any type of person
Given that those were akihiko yoshida designs I presume the adult male wore a sleeveless leotard and assless cargo shorts
No I think most people are like you, I am the weirdo here. Your aesthetic opinions are inscrutable for other reasons (and that’s a big reason I love them very much)
I only relate to characters that are level 99.
i think i only relate to jrpg protagonists insofar as i like to do things for people and so i guess if i was the strongest person in the entire world, i would probably do a lot of things for everyone all of the time.
that said, yeah, never really felt like i saw anyone in a videogame that “looked like” me and so it’s always mostly about the story and the themes and the vibe. the NieR series is relatable on an extreme grief/depression level and i love it for that, and also i think everyone looks cool
idk what this says about me but I tend to relate to characters who don’t resemble me far more than those who do
Yeah like I thought the whole point of automata was relating to the cute robot people more than the cold sociopathic androids
why does it have to be a gacha game
why does “gacha” just happen to phonetically resemble “gotcha”
Yoko Taro Is Gonna Make You Love The Grind
Finally finished ending A (again).
Damn I forgot how much Kaine back story there was. I kinda wish this was made into more of a thing rather than us getting the mermaid stuff. I think I must not have absorbed the first time round since if you load up after ending A with the promise of more story you don’t exactly expect to be hit with four text chapters back to back. Younger me probably skimmed through but this time I really appreciated the detail.
Unlocked 15 nightmares and Jamieson Price’s voice is pure ecstasy
Yoko Taro loves making Gacha games so this is entirely in line with his work.
If there’s some metatextual commentary around dropping hundreds of dollars on blind boxes for a holographic 9S I’m done with this guy
hes all fucked up now because he spent a year working on an mmo
cracks knuckles
well,