>JRPG
>actual romance closure with kiss & marriage
Why is it so rare for this to happen? lot of jrpg with romantic tension lead to nowhere
Are the producers too afraid of the waifugays & husbandogays's backlash?
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Romance ending
Unless the main character is so bland and self-insert as to be indistinguishable from (You), weebs and coomers will throw a b***hfit whenever said character will physically engage with their waifu. This is even worse in Japan itself, where there are cases of otaku foaming at the mouth that their waifu has ANY physical relationships with ANY character, even the MC, since the MC isn't them.
If a game targets the japanese market over the western one primarily they have to pander to otaku puritygays. As described they tend to lose their minds if anyone besides either a self insert MC or a "literally me" MC gets with the main girl.
You can see similar trends in japanese idol culture, where idols are barred from dating in order to increase their appeal to this demographic. As long as these people make up a significant chunk of the fanbase it's logical for the devs to pander to them.
>lose their minds if anyone besides either a self insert MC or a "literally me" MC gets with the main girl.
Based, I do the same. Frick prostitutes and frick prostitute apologizers.
I was ok with the ending of arise because I only played as the main dude the entire game so he's LITERALLY me. Couldn't be arsed to switch up my play style.
Protip; you being mentally stunted is not a badge of honor.
Please keep it to yourself, you are embarrassing everyone.
>even the MC, since the MC isn't them
wtf is wrong with these homosexuals, the whole fricking point of bland and/or mute mc is to fricking self insert and these homosexuals still b***h?
Because a literal tabula rasa nothing of an MC is still more interesting than them, they can't buy the illusion.
The thing is that 98% of JPRGs have protags that arent you as the nameable/silent protag archetype is basically dead outside ATLUS/Nintendo.
I don't know man, it doesn't have to end with marriage to give closure to the romance.
I think it's something to do with fans. They really don't like the finality of an actual canon relationship.
Which is disappointing, I really love it too.
Lunar did this well, with every character hooking up with another. It even leads into the second one well, which is sort of based on the tragedy of an immortal marrying a mortal.
I feel like SMTV is worth bringing up into this. I don't know if it's because mainline smt isn't that popular or people who play it don't go into the game expecting to waifu gay like they do with persona but this particular game was very heavy on relationships. Pretty much every character ended up with a demon. When I'd check 2chan or even browse jap twitter I wouldn't find anyone getting upset with Miyazu being with Khonsu for example or any of the other girls being "taken" like Nuwa or Abdiel. In fact I saw people wishing they were Dazai so they could frick Abdiel.
In terms of relationships the only outrage I saw was that the partner for the self insert MC wasn't the girl but actually the robot that rescues him. The west mostly assumed it was some kind of father/son relationship, probably because they missed the two separate love confession moments but japs picked up on it immediately and there were plenty of complaints about being "tricked" and wishing the robot's lines could be censored or remove him all together. In reality it's very mild though. The love confessions are more like a robot not knowing what love is, and an extension of him in the form of a flying onahole revealing his true feelings for him. In the true end they hold hands before saying goodbye like how they first met. It's not overly gay at all but it was still enough to make a good number of japs run to 2chan to b***h about it.
I honestly don't know how they packed so many relationships into the game and got away with it when I think about it.
Probably because exactly as you stated, the MC had an extremely mild, and easily dismissible as such, "gay" romance with a literal machine that doesn't even stick around, so that took any heat from pairing off the NPCs. It also helps that one-to-one interactions between MC and the team were toned down some compared to IVA for a recentmost example, so it's not like one can take the time to impress upon themselves "potential" with the girl, only to find that all of the character development she was getting with the demon guy actually went somewhere.
i gotchu senpai
it's not rare at all but in true westoid fashion unless it's like pic related you will deny it does happen because westoids can't into subtext
Xenogears
Lufia 2
Wild Arms 2
The Last Story
i might be missing a few others, but you can count on 2 hands the amount of jrpgs where it happens.
Lunar
Xenoblade 1 and 2, Skies of Arcadia, Tales of the Abyss
didn't play xenoblade, but Skies goes nowhere depsite the kiss, and Abyss goes nowhere with the vague ending. they're examples of what we don't want.
Xenoblade 1 and 2 don't even confirm the characters get together. Anon has a very, very loose definition of romance ending to say the least.
Legend of Legaia. There’s an NTR ending too if memory serves.
It's not really an NTR ending though. Basically if you say at the end you're going after Noa, Mei marries the local shithead. If you do literally anything else she either marries you or waits for you.
Oh, I thought it was completely dependent on whether or not you sold the armor she made you. Isn’t Noa like 10? That’s kinda gross
Chrono Trigger
>Why is it so rare for this to happen?
How new are you? This used to be the fricking norm. It's only in the past couple generations that shit went full moron dating sim so there's no actual romance out of fear of scaring off one of the potential waifu fanbases.
> full moron dating sim
Actual dating sims do end with conclusive romances too though. So what the frick are you talking about here.
Because Japanese are degenerate homos. Also romance in games is moronic touch grass.
touch ass
Already touch your mum's.
An open ending keeps waifugays happy and fujos content. From a publisher's perspective that's as close to a win-win as it gets, I guess.
>lot of jrpg with romantic tension lead to nowhere
That's a thing with railroaded plots, if you try to force a girl, for example Rinoa, and she isn't well received by the player base...then
Because not every RPG needs romance and gays like you who make romance their biggest priority are no better than cattle.