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Monolith Soft: RPG heroes are hated |
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Monolith Soft, developer of the Xenosaga series, believes that RPG heroes are hated by the player.
"The hero in this game [Xenoblade for Wii] is Shulk, and we made one of our themes that he should be 'a hero who isn't hated'. It's something I've felt about my own games, of course, as well as games by other people. Essentially, the heroes and heroines in RPGs often end up being disliked. Naturally, there are well-loved characters too, but I'd say that in general, they end up being hated. I think it comes from the huge emotional investment the player has made in the hero or heroine," said Tetsuya Makahashi, creator of Xenoblade.
"Player characters are a part of yourself and for this reason, they shouldn't think or do anything that you don't want them to. With RPGs, there is one way to ensure the hero isn't hated - and that's to make it so they don't utter a word. Not making the main character say anything is easy, but for this title, we wanted him to speak. This meant we were groping for a way to get that 'resonance'. In the end, I think we managed to achieve that to some degree," he continued.
"Just prior to this interview, I got the staff at Mario Club to give me their impressions of the hero, and it turns out that none of them disliked him in the slightest. In fact, they had felt affection towards the hero and his companions throughout. I was incredibly happy when I heard that."
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I just don't like heroes who are annoying or have annoying voice actors.
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Squall was pathetic, childish, obsolete, always so "cold" without reason, he was too tired to scratch his own balls , and resented people when looked bad at him..ohh poor rebel without a cause... "Don't want to talk to you pretty lady, i am too cool to like girls...was painful to play FFVIII, specially all the SOAP opera scenes... At least we had the Laguna scenes..
XIX was cute, on a way, but not deep, and boring to tears.. FFX was an insult to the eyes, poor clothing design...colors, interface, female faced character, even more than Squall..at least he had pants with two legs...instead an excuse for a costume.. and a Hoodie...a yellow Hoodie for damn sake...
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