Why is every final boss of a Japanese game an evil god? What are they trying to imply?
Why is every final boss of a Japanese game an evil god? What are they trying to imply?
Why is every final boss of a Japanese game an evil god? What are they trying to imply?
The evil god represents American occupation.
Name seventy-five (75) games that have an evil god as a final boss. I'll wait.
Final Fantasy 1 to whatever is last number, all of its spinoffs, mostly all of its spin-off series.
Also SMT, Persona and every single other SMT-related game.
Technically this
Christian (israeli) god is just another powerful spirit like Amaterasu, Allah and other gods of each own land respectively.
That's still only 20 something games at most, and only if I'm being generous, most likely sub 10 if I actually had a critical look on that "list".
newbie detected.
Technically, I'm a newbie indeed, if you count 2008 that, as it is after "newbie summer", but firstly that would be extremely silly, secondly I doubt that's what you had in mind.
Only a handful of Final Fantasy games actually do the evil god thing.
this statement means a hell of a lot less than you think in a country where picnic tables can house gods
what are you referring to? the tabernacle?
Wut? What else you gonna fight after maxing out your level with god slaying legendary gears and continent wiping spells?
nihilistic nation of postmodernists with a fear of the transcendent. also just generally creatively bankrupt since the 90s so they are literally incapable of thinking of anything better
Jesus you're fricking moronic.
Japan are quite negative towards the Abrahamic god, it's the reason most Christians or religions in anime are bad/scheming/corrupt, no surprise their final battle will be against him.
Based japs. I wouldn't trust a israelite god either
It's the endgame of power scaling. Eventually the protagonist gets so powerful only god can challenge him.
>What are they trying to imply?
"Becoming the strongest thing in the universe is badass"
They are right by the way
God is omniscient and omnipotent. this is the hubris of you atheists. you cannot beat Him. you can fight all you want but it will be futile for His love will overpower you.
>god and all his omniscient, omnipotent powers when a party of five japanese teenagers cast gigaflare
yes the japanese imagination is very unoriginal and hackneyed, i agree.
Meanwhile the west can't stop dicksucking realism and groundedness.
stop playing AAA slop, for fricks sake. why are you weebs so insanely sheltered and unaware?
>nah bro you have to play videogames where you get fight shitty insects and bandits in gay rubbleworld
its fine if you dont like this game, but your moronic point of thinking every western game is horizon zero dawn is fricking stupid as frick. there is great shit coming out from the west but you are just too stupid and/or too weeb to realize/admit it. what kind of games do you like?
>but your moronic point of thinking every western game is horizon zero dawn
Who said this?
stfu stygger
That humans, not gods, not monsters, not demons, not dragons, have the potential to vastly go beyond their own limits and achieve what is literally impossible.
It's a power trip. In older fiction it'd be a big dragon or something, but you've probably crunched dozens of those just to get to that point
It's either that or an alien, or both.
Gods are embodiments of nature and disaster in japan and while there is worship of them in the culture, most don't actually revere them as entities to be worshiped but simply place cultural and spiritual value in the rituals done in the name of reverence. Whatsmore the worship tends to be form of placating the gods so as to not bring on calamities and to usher in prosperous times so basically gods don't have to be malovelent or absolute. If Paul hadn't started with his gentile inclusivity shit the world might still have been full of pagans like this.
The word of god is law, if He commanded us to submit to divine authority no matter what that involves why would we refuse let alone fight him? Your worldly life is fleeting and meaningless compared to the everlasting glory of Heaven and the grace of the Lord Almighty.
>t. YHVH
The Japanese have a different view of gods than western/middle east.
The Japanese kami are powerful but not almighty and evil gods always existed in their culture (Binbōgami for example).
Overcoming a evil god in Japanese mythology is basically one of the greatest feats possible.
Japanese kami are, first and foremost, not gods, but spirits. Some of this spirits have great power and sit higher, than majority of the rest, but they are only spirits in their nature. Not even like Greek or Norse gods. More like shoguns to other spirits, but actually stronger. There is no gods in Shinto, therefore all other gods from other religions are also classified as very strong spirits rather than some being beyond understanding, perception etc.
That's exactly what a god was before early Judaism elevated YHVH to the top of the canaanite pantheon and usurped El's position in their shift from henotheism to monotheism. What you still see in Japan is basically the same as what you saw in the mediterraenean before Constantine enabled Christians to propagate in the 4th century roman empire. The earliest gods that can be found were embodiments of natural phenomena to facilitate their occurrences, it's only much much later on that they became representations of worldly and divine power to unify the masses. Don't impose an abrahamic worldview on an entirely separate structure of divinities and spirits.
religions are comically easy to usurp and corrupt
Every culture worth naming has fought or claims to have fought an evil church, it is the easiest, most justifiable and most relatable antagonistic force to place in your game and fighting an evil god is just a logical extension of that.